Yves Derains

Yves Derains, former Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and Director of the Legal Department of the ICC, is a member of the Paris Bar and a founding partner of the law firm Derains & Gharavi. He is specializes in interational arbitration and is acts as both arbitrator and counsel of parties in arbitration proceedings.

Mr Derains is former Chairman of the Comité Français de l'Arbitrage and Incoming Chairman of the ICC Institute of World Business Law. He was Chairman of the Working Party on the Revision of the ICC Rules of Arbitration in 1998 and Co-Chairman of the ICC Task Force on the Reduction of Costs and Time in International Arbitration. He has been a member of the French Committee on Private International Law since 1978. He is a member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and member of various other organizations specialized in international arbitration and in international business law. He is honorary professor of the law faculties of San Ignacio de Loyola University and Universidad del Pacifico, Lima, Peru.

Mr Derains is also the author of many publications on International Commercial Arbitration and on International Business Law, in particular: "Evaluation of damages in international arbitration," (ICC Institute of World Business Law, 2006) and A Guide to the ICC Rules of Arbitration (Kluwer Law International, 2005, with E. Schwartz).