Professional Experience

Independent International Law Practice, Ottawa, ON, 1/2020-present

• Arbitrator, consultant, and legal adviser to States and international organizations

• Columbia Law School, Lecturer-in-Law and Senior Fellow, International Claims and Reparations Project (ICRP), New York, NY (5/2022-present)

• United Nations Register of Damage Caused by the Construction of the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (UNRoD), Member of the Board, Vienna, Austria (1/2023-present) 

  • By appointment and as a representative of the United Nations Secretary-General

  • Three-member Board responsible for establishing and maintaining the Register of Damage; establishing rules and regulations; determining claims eligibility; determining criteria for damage and the procedure for collecting and registering claims (guided by the ICJ’s advisory opinion on the Wall and principles of international law and due process); and determining the inclusion of claims in the Register of Damage

• National University of Singapore Faculty of Law, Visiting Professor (2023-2024, 2nd semester)

Shearman & Sterling LLP, Partner, International Arbitration and Public International Law Practice Groups, London and Paris, 9/2015 – 12/2019

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal Adviser, Washington, DC

• Chief of Investment Arbitration, Office of International Claims and Investment Disputes, 7/2011-8/2015

• Attorney-Adviser, Office of African and Near Eastern Affairs, 9/2009-7/2011

• Legal Adviser, United States Embassy Baghdad, 2/2008-3/2009

• Attorney-Adviser, Office of International Claims and Investment Disputes, 1/2007-2/2008, 4/2009-9/2009

Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, Adjunct Professor, 2010-2015

• International Courts and Tribunals: Theory and Practice (2012-2015)

• International Transitional Justice (2010-2011)

White & Case LLP, Associate, International Arbitration Practice Group, Washington, DC, 11/2003-1/2007

Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, Legal Assistant to Judge Charles N. Brower, The Hague, The Netherlands, 8/2001-9/2003

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Associate, Litigation Practice Group, New York, NY, 9/2000-8/2001

Professional Qualifications

Member of the New York Bar

Legal Education

Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, LL.M. 2000, international law concentration

Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague, The Netherlands, Public International Law Certificate, 1999; Private International Law Certificate, 2002

New York University School of Law, New York, NY, J.D. 1998

Arbitral Institutions

KCAB International, Panel of Arbitrations

Languages

Spanish (reading)

French (reading)

Professional Activities

Journals

ICSID Review—Foreign Investment Law Journal: Associate Editor (Notes)

International Legal Materials: Corresponding Editor (international dispute resolution)

Law/Technology: formerly Managing Editor

Peer Reviewing

FDI Perspectives (Columbia Law School)

ICSID Review—Foreign Investment Law Journal

Journal of World Investment and Trade

Oxford University Press

Yearbook of International Investment Law & Policy

Legal Research

Jus Mundi: Editor

Professional Organizations

American Society of International Law: Member

• Co-Chair, 2008 ASIL-ITA Spring Conference

• Program Committee, 106th Annual Meeting (2012), 113th Annual Meeting (2019)

Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment, Faculty Trainer and Reviewer

International Law Students Association: Board Member (2017-2023)

Institute for Transnational Arbitration: 2017 Workshop Co-Chair

International Arbitration Institute: Member

International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT): Observer to the working group for the development of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (second edition)

International Law Association (American Branch): Co-Chair, Organizing Committee, 2015 International Law Weekend

International Mediation Institute (IMI):

• Member of the Taskforce on Investor-State Mediation, which developed the “IMI Competency Criteria for Investor-State Mediators”

• Member of Investor-State Taskforce on a Model Dispute Resolution Protocol

SCC Arbitration Institute’s “Stockholm Treaty Lab”: Advisory Board Member

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) CLOUT, National Correspondent, United States (Arbitration)

United States Department of State:

• Member of the U.S. Delegation to UNCITRAL Working Group III (ISDS reform)

• Member of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law

World Jurist Association: formerly Program Director and Editor of The World Jurist

Awards and Recognitions

Peace-Operations Medal of Estonia (2009), awarded by the Estonian Ministry of Defense, and presented by the Minister of Defense, for supporting Estonia’s long-term military cooperation goals in the Middle East

U.S. State Department Superior Honor Awards (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014)

U.S. State Department Meritorious Honor Awards (2008, 2009, 2012)

FDA Commissioner’s 2014 Special Citation, awarded by the Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for “providing exceptional services to FDA in vigorously defending the agency in an unprecedented NAFTA challenge”