Pierre TERCIER

Emeritus Professor, University of Fribourg, Switzerland; Honorary Chairman, ICC International Court of Arbitration

Pierre Tercier is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Fribourg, the Honorary Chairman of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and an international arbitrator with extensive international arbitration and dispute resolution experience.

He spent the first part of his career as a teacher at the Law Faculty of the University of Fribourg, where he taught, among others, contract, torts, commercial law, competition law and arbitration. He published and edited numerous books and articles that still represent classical sources of Swiss Law. He has been a visiting professor at numerous universities around the world. He is a former chairman of the Swiss Competition Commission and of the Swiss Insurance Law Society. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas in 2004 and in 2023 by the University of Neuchâtel.

Already early in his career, he started receiving arbitral appointments. Later, he became the President of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC. He has served, mainly as president, in around two hundreds international arbitrations under various rules (i.e., ICC, ICSID, LCIA, SIAC, CRCICA, SCC, UNCITRAL etc.) covering various sectors. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and was a member of the Comity of the Association of Swiss Arbitration (ASA).

A few years ago, he joined Peter & Kim in Geneva as Senior Counsel.