Bernard Hanotiau

Professor; Partner, Hanotiau & Van den Berg, Belgium; Council Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law; Council Member, ICCA

Bernard Hanotiau is a member of the Brussels and Paris bars. In 2001, he established in Brussels a boutiue law firm concentrating on international arbitration and litigation. He is also a professor at the Law School of Louvain University where he teaches international arbitration. Mr Hanotiau has a PhD from Louvain University and an LLM from Columbia University (1973).Since 1978, Bernard Hanotiau has been actively involved in international commercial arbitration as party-appointed arbitrator, chairman, sole arbitrator, counsel and expert in various parts of the world. He is a member of ICCA, the ICC International Arbitration Commission and a Council Member of the ICC Institute. He is also Vice-President of CEPANI and of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration (Dallas). He has written a major treatise on complex arbitrations (Complex Arbitrations: Multiparty, Multicontract, Multi-issues and Class Actions, Kluwer, 2006).