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Dr Yas Banifatemi

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Position

Founding Partner, Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes

Career

• Founding Partner, Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes (Feb 2021–Present)
• Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP (Jan 2006–Feb 2021)
• Associate, Shearman & Sterling LLP (Oct 1997–Dec 2005)
• Adjunct Professor of Law, Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Paris I) (2024–Present)
• Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (2024–Present)
• Lecturer on International Arbitration, Sciences Po Law School (2022–2023)
• Visiting Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School (2018–2023)
• Visiting Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School (2014–2023)
• Lecturer on International Investment Law, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (Sep 2006–2023)
• Lecturer, The Hague Academy of International Law, Private International Law Session (Summer 2019; Summer 2022)
• Director of Studies, The Hague Academy of International Law, Public International Law Session (Summer 2004)
• Lecturer on Public International Law, Panthéon-Assas University (Paris II) (1994–1996 and 1999–2000)

Languages

French, English, Farsi

Memberships

• President of the International Arbitration Institute (IAI) (2021–Present)
• Member, Court of Arbitration of the Singapore International Arbitration Center (SIAC) (2019–2024)
• Member, SIAC Users Council (2017–2024)
• Member, Arbitration Council of the Georgian International Arbitration Center (GIAC) (2020–Present)
• Member, Advisory Board of the Mauritius International Arbitration Center (MIAC) (2021–Present)
• Vice-President, ICC International Court of Arbitration (2015–2021)
• Member, ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR (2015–2021)
• Member, LCIA Court (2015–2020)
• Listed, ICSID Panel of Arbitrators (2017–2023), appointed by the Chairman of ICSID’s Administrative Council
• Listed, HKIAC Panel of Arbitrators (2016–2021); SHIAC Panel of Arbitrators (2018–2021); CIETAC Panel of International Investment Arbitrators (2018–2020); ADGMAC Panel of Arbitrators (2020–)
• Listed, Panel of Experts of the Recognised International Market Experts in Finance (P.R.I.M.E. Finance)
• Founding member and Co-Secretary-General, International Academy for Arbitration Law (2011–2013)
• Member, Advisory Board, Journal of International Economic Law (2023–2026)
• Member, Editorial Board, ICSID Review, Foreign Investment Law Journal (2012–2014)
• Member, Editorial Board, Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy
• Member, SIAC Drafting Sub-Committee on Arbitral Procedure and Powers of the Tribunal (including Early Dismissal) (2020–2021)
• Member, P.R.I.M.E. Finance Arbitration Rules Drafting Committee (2020–2021)
• Member, Editorial Board for the Revision of the Uruguayan Conciliation and Arbitration Center Rules (2018–Present)
• Member, SCC Rules Revision Committee (2017)
• Chair, Georgian International Arbitration Center (GIAC) Commission for Final Revision of the GIAC Arbitration Rules (2014–Present)
• Member, World Bank’s Investing Across Borders (IAB)
• Member, ILA Study Group on the Soft Law Instruments in Foreign Investment Law (2010–2014)
• Member, ILA Study Group on the Use of Private Law Principles for the Development of International Law
• Member, IBA Investment Treaty Sub-Committee
• Member, IBA Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards Sub-Committee
• Member, Advisory Board, Africa International Legal Awareness (AILA)
• Member, Advisory Board, Association of Young Arbitrators (AYA), Nigeria
• Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)
• Expert, joint UNCITRAL-CIDS Expert Group meeting on possible reforms of investor-State dispute settlement
• Member, International Arbitration Institute (IAI), Comité Français de l’Arbitrage (CFA), Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
• Member, American Society of International Law (ASIL), European Society of International Law (ESIL) and French Society of International Law (SFDI)

Education

• Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, Ph.D. in International Law (with highest honors; Dissertation honored with a prize at the Concours de Prix de Thèses)
• Harvard Law School, LL.M.