Professor Alain PELLET

Professor Alain Pellet is a leading academic and practitioner in public international law in general and on investment treaties in particular. A civil lawyer by training, he served on the UN International Law Commission, including as a past President, in a period in which the Commission issued its Draft Articles on State Responsibility, Diplomatic Protection and a range of other seminal works for investment arbitration. He currently serves as the President of the International Law Institute. In addition to being the most frequent counsel before the International Court of Justice, he has served as arbitrator, counsel or expert in a substantial number of investment arbitrations.