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Board of Trustees

Sheikha Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa
Chairperson,
Board of Trustees

 

 

Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa was one of the first two women in Bahrain to practice law when she was admitted as a lawyer in Bahrain in 1979. She is the principal and founding partner of Haya Rashed Al Khalifa Law Firm. Sheikha Haya, is a board member of ICC Bahrain and Chairperson of its Lawyers Committee, and is currently Bahrain's representative before the International Court of Arbitration at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris. She has also been appointed in 2008 to chair the Consumer Advisory Group of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, (TRA) Bahrain.

Prior to setting up her practice, she was the Counsel at the Bahrain Ministry of State for Legal Affairs and she has also been admitted to the Court of Cassation and the Constitutional Court of Bahrain, in addition to her membership of the Bahrain Bar Association. Sheikha Haya obtained a Bachelor Degree in Law from the University of Kuwait in 1974. She has also obtained a Diploma in Civil Rights Private Law from the University of Alexandria, Egypt, in 1986 and a Diploma in Comparative Law from the University of Ain Shams, Egypt, in 1988. In addition to her legal career, Shaikha Haya has been Bahrain's Ambassador to France and its non-resident Ambassador to Belgium, Switzerland and Spain. She is also Bahrain's permanent delegate to UNESCO, the U.N.Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and was the President of the 61st Session of the United Nations General Assembly for its term of one year, which ended in September 2007.

Shaikh Khalid Bin Ali Al Khalifa 
Member, 
Board of Trustees

 

Judge Abdulla Bin Hassan Al Buainain
Member, 
Board of Trustees


 

Yousif Abdulhusain Khalaf
Member, 
Board of Trustees


 

Mr. William K. Slate II
Member
Board of Trustees

 

William K. Slate II is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the largest dispute resolution organization in the world. He led the AAA acquisition of ADRWorld.com (then the only online dispute resolution news service in existence). In 2001 he opened the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) in Dublin, Ireland. In 2006 he expanded ICDR to Mexico City and Singapore, and in 2009 to Bahrain. He was formerly President of the Justice Research Institute and is the former Director of the Federal Courts Study Committee reporting to the President, Chief Justice of the United States, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. He was the first-ever consultant to the senior staff of the Supreme Court of the United States on strategic planning and has also been an executive in both the Third and Fourth Federal Circuits. In addition to practicing law, he has lectured widely on law, arbitration and mediation.

Mr. Slate holds an M.B.A. degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Richmond Law School where he was member of the Law Review, and a B.A. degree from Wake Forest University where he was a Poteat Scholar. He has served as Chairman of the Board of the American Management Association, and he is an elected member of the American Law Institute. In 2005 he was elected to the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and conceived and founded CAMCA (the Commercial Arbitration and Mediation Center for the Americas) for the resolution of private party commercial disputes under the NAFTA accords - the first such tri-national entity in the world involving institutions from Canada, Mexico and the United States.

 

Mr. Richard Naimark 
Member
Board of Trustees

 

Richard W. Naimark is Senior Vice President of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) in charge of the International Center for Dispute Resolution (ICDR). He is the founder and former Executive Director of the Global Center for Dispute Resolution Research which conducted research in arbitration and ADR for business disputes in cross-border transactions. Mr. Naimark has served as a neutral in a wide variety of business and organizational settings including work with the United Nations (UNCITRAL); government; universities; corporate; construction; computer; real estate; land use; insurance; and non-profit subject areas. Mr. Naimark is also responsible for legislative monitoring functions and has held positions responsible for Strategy, Outreach and Public Relations, E-Commerce, Administration, Human Resources, Accounting, Information Technology and Elections.

Since joining the Association in 1975, Mr. Naimark has conducted hundreds of seminars and training programs on dispute resolution and is co-editor of the book Toward a Science of International Arbitration. Articles recently published include Arbitrators Do Not "Split-the-Baby": Empirical Evidence from International Business Arbitration, International Private Commercial Arbitration: Expectations and Perceptions of Attorneys and Business People, and Analysis Of UNCITRAL Questionnaires On Interim Relief. Mr. Naimark has been selected for inclusion in Who's Who in the East, Who's Who in Finance and Industry and Who's Who in Emerging Leaders in America. Mr. Naimark earned a Masters of Science - Business Policy in 1983, from Columbia Business School and is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island (B.A) 1975.

 

Mr. Jan Paulsson
Member
Board of Trustees

 

Jan Paulsson is co-head of Freshfields Bruckhause Deringer's international arbitration and public international law groups and has acted as counsel or arbitrator in many hundreds of international arbitrations, conducted notably under the rules of the ICC, UNCITRAL, ICSID, LCIA, AAA and the Stockholm Institute.  He also acted as ad hoc arbitrator at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Nagano and Sydney.  In addition, he has acted before public international law tribunals, including the International Court of Justice.  Jan is President of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration, President of the Administrative Tribunals of the OECD and the EBRD, Vice-President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and a board member of the AAA.  He is a former President of the London Court of International Arbitration and the World Bank Administrative Tribunal. 

Jan holds the Michael Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair and is head of a graduate programme in international arbitration at the School of Law of the University of Miami.  He is also a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. He is the author of several textbooks and numerous articles on the subject of international arbitration, in particular the standard reference work International Chamber of Commerce Arbitration (3rd edition 2000) which he co-authored with Messrs. W.L. Craig and W.W. Park, and his monograph Denial of Justice in International Law which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2005.  Jan holds degrees from Harvard College, Yale Law School (where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal) and the University of Paris.  He is a US-qualified attorney and an Avocat à la Cour in France.  He speaks English, French, Spanish and Swedish. 

 

 

Decree No. (88) for 2009 Appointing the BCDR-AAA Chair and Board of Trustees.