January 31, 2023
Dr. Jamsheed Peeroo
Dr. Jamsheed Peeroo is a dualqualified barrister (UK & Mauritius) and holds a PhD in international arbitration law from the Sorbonne. He has worked on many arbitrations at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris, at 3VB in London and at Peeroo Chambers in Mauritius. He has taught arbitration law and was closely involved in preparing draft procedural rules governing arbitration currently splits his timrelated claims before Mauritian e between London and Mauritius.
January 31, 2023
Ms. Sophie Henry
Sophie Henry is the Déléguée générale ( Mé diation et d’Arbitrage de Paris. Executive director) of the CMAP Centre de She holds a DEA in Private Law (Master Degree) Univer sity of Paris II Pantheon Assas. Sophie Henry was an associate lawyer, and a member of the Paris Bar, specializing in commercial litigation for nearly ten years. exercised as an Expert in the area of Pro She also duction and Consumption for the Economic and Social Committee of the European Commission. She then joined the CMAP in 2000 and successively practiced as a European program manager, mediation Trainer, Consultant, and Secretary general until now. Since 2012, So phie is VicePresident of the French Federation of Arbitration Centres (Fédération des centres d’arbitrage).
January 31, 2023
Ms. Maryan Hassan
Maryan is Chief Negotiator for Somalia to the WTO. She is based at the Office of the President and was formerly Chief Legal Adviser at the Federal Government of Somalia where she reestablished the Office of the Legal Adviser for the first time in 26 years. Prior to working in Mogadishu, Maryan worked at the arbitration practice of Al Tamimi & Co in Dub ai, and as Legal Adviser to the Somali Mission to the UN in New York. Maryan is a member of the World Bank’s International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) panels of arbitrators and conciliators. Somalia’s Arbitration Task Force alongside Gary Born She founded this work and was shortlisted for ‘Best Development’ in GAR’s 2017 awards. She undertook a career in arbitration and ADR after studying at SOAS, University of London. During her time at SOAS, she was recognized by the US Embassy as a ‘Young Leader’.
January 31, 2023
Mr. Rajeev Sharma Fokeer
Rajeev Sharma Fokeer was admitted to the English Bar as a Barrister in 2002 and was later admitted as Avocat à la Cour to the Paris Bar in 2005. He was also Bar of Mauritius, his native country, in 2008. admitted to Rajeev’s work is essentially international in nature, involving a wide range of cross-border commercial matters. He has focused his work in the past years on international dispute resolution generally and is specialized in all aspects of international commercial arbitration. He acts regularly in a number of institutional arbitration cases as Counsel. A partner at FTPA since 2010, he is co-in charge of managing partner in the firm’s London office, of the international arbitration offering of the firm. Rajeev holds an honors degree in English law (King’s College, London) and a maîtrise degree in French Law (Université de Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne). He also obtained a French master’s Panthéon Assas). degree in Litig He is a member of the action, Arbitration & ADR (Université de Paris II Association Française arbitrage His recent articles include “ and Young ICCA. The Fate of Impecunious parties in international arbitration ” co-written with a fellow partner, Laurence Lepinoix.
January 31, 2023
Maria Krystyna Duval
Maria Krystyna Duval is an international arbitration lawyer and a Visiting Fellow in The Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College in London. Following her legal studies in the United Kingdom, which included a course in international commercial arbitration taught jointly by Paris I Sorbonne and Cornell University and a course in international human rights at the London School of Economics, she trained at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in Paris and London. She then when on to practice international commercial and investment arbitration at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in Paris and CMS in London. She is a Solicitor Advocate. Maria’s Master’s in Political Science from the Paris Krystyna has an Institut d’Etudes Politiques in International and a Master’s in Business and Politics from New York University’s Stern School of Business and Department of Politics. Maria Krystyna is a native English and French speaker, and is highly proficient in Italian, German and Russian, with intermediate Spanish and Mandarin skills.
