Prof. Dr. Maxi SCHERER

Professor Maxi Scherer is a Special Counsel at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP in London and a Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London, where she holds the Chair for International Arbitration, Dispute Resolution and Energy Law.

She has practiced international arbitration for more than 20 years and represented clients, served as arbitrator or legal expert in more than 120 commercial and investor-state arbitrations. She is Vice-President of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), a co-chair of the IBA Investment Arbitration Subcommittee and holds many other public appointments and commissions of trust, including being a member of the panel of arbitrators (ICSID).

Maxi publishes extensively in the field of international arbitration, including “International Arbitration in the Energy Sector” (OUP, 2018) and “International Arbitration and the COVID-19 Revolution” (Kluwer, 2020). She is the General Editor of the Kluwer Journal of International Arbitration and has received the GAR Award for Best Speech or Lecture in 2018 and Best Prepared Arbitrator in 2022.