Nationality: The United States

George A. Bermann got J.D. in Yale Law School in 1971 (editor of the Yale Law Journal) and B.A. in Yale College in 1967.

Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law; Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law ; Director of Columbia Law School Center for International Commercial and Investment Arbitration; Professor of Ecole de droit, Institut des Sciences Politiques (Paris); Professor of Geneva LL.M. in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS) (Geneva) ; Visiting Professor of Georgetown University Law Center (Washington DC).

Prof. Bermann in International Commercial and Investment Arbitration; in excess of fifty cases from 1980 to date; president of tribunal and party-appointed, as well as solo, in arbitrations before all major international arbitral institutions and ad hoc Counsel or advisor to counsel in international commercial arbitrations Foreign Law and International Arbitration Law Expert Witness in international commercial arbitrations. He is also Chief Reporter of ALI Restatement of the US Law of International Commercial Arbitration and expert on International Arbitration and Foreign Law in US courts, international arbitration and courts abroad.

Prof. Bermann is Founding Member of Governing Board of International Court of Arbitration of the ICC; Member of Standing Committee of International Court of Arbitration of the ICC; Chair of Global Board of Advisers of New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC); Director of American Arbitration Association (AAA);Board member of Center for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR); Fellow of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London); President of Board of Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration (Lahore,Pakistan); President of Board of Thai International Arbitration Center (Bangkok, Thailand). He used to be President of Académie Internationale de Droit Comparé (Paris, France) and President of American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL).

He won the Doctor honoris causa of University of Fribourg, Switzerland; Universitê de Versailles-St.Quentin, France; Universidad Cesar Vallejo, Lima, Peru; Distinguished Service Award of American Foreign Law Association; Lifetime Achievement Award of American Society of Comparative Law; Tocqueville - Fulbright Distinguished Professorship (University of Paris I). He won the recognition as leading international arbitrator by Chambers USA, Who's Who Legal, Juris Guide to International Arbitrators.

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