Christina Binder holds the Chair for International Law and International Human Rights Law at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich since April 2017. Before, she was University Professor of International Law at the Department of European, International and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna. Christina was member of the Executive Board of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) 2014-2022 and also served as ESIL’s Vice-President. She is member of the Council of the Global Campus of Human Rights since 2019. She is member of the ILA Committees “Urbanisation and International Law - Potential & Pitfalls”  and “International Law for the SDGs” and was Co-Rapporteur of the ILA Committee “Human Rights in Times of Emergency”. Her research focuses on a number of public international law issues, including human rights, the law of treaties, international investment law, democracy and political participation as well as international environmental law.

Andrea K. Bjorklund is a Full Professor and the L. Yves Fortier Chair in International Arbitration and International Commercial Law at McGill University Faculty of Law.  She is the General Editor of Arbitration International and a member of the Investment Treaty Forum of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.  In addition to her academic work, she acts as arbitrator in both investment and commercial arbitrations.  She was appointed to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators by the Government of Canada and is also on the roster of several other arbitral institutions.  A citizen of both Canada and the United States, she holds a J.D. from Yale Law School.  In June 2025 the University of Vienna awarded her an honorary doctorate.

Fernando Lusa Bordin is Professor of Institutional Law (Schermers Chair) at Leiden University and a College Associate Professor and Fellow in Law at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. He has served as Rapporteur for the ILA Study Group on the International Law of Regional Organizations between 2020 and 2024.

Philippe Cullet is Professor of international and environmental law at SOAS University of London and Visiting Professor at the National Law University Delhi. He is the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant (2025-2030) focusing on multi-scalar dimensions of sectoral water conflicts in South Asia (WATCON.org). His publications reflect his engagement with international law and policy, the global South and India. His latest edited book is River Rejuvenation and River Rights: Evolving Debates in India (Routledge, 2026) [co-edited with Ruchi Shree]. He is the Guest Editor of a Special issue on Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in South Asia – Lessons for Rights of Nature Discourses, Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences (forthcoming 2026). Philippe is the Chair of the Rights of Nature Specialist Group, WCEL-IUCN and the Co-chair of the Committee on Rights of Nature of the International Law Association.

Mariel Dimsey is an independent arbitrator based in Hong Kong. She is a past Secretary-General of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre and was Managing Partner of CMS Hong Kong and Head of the CMS APAC Arbitration team. Mariel Dimsey has over 20 years' experience acting as adviser and advocate in numerous international arbitrations, including IP, construction and infrastructure, foreign investment, post-M&A, automotive, aircraft, supply chain, pharmaceutical, and sales and distribution disputes. She has particular expertise in disputes involving China and APAC, and acts in both common law and civil law disputes, having worked in Germany for a decade earlier in her career. She also sits regularly as arbitrator and has experience as arbitrator under the HKIAC, ICC, KCAB, and DIS Rules, and in ad hoc disputes. She is on the arbitrator panels of several institutions. She is admitted to practice law in Australia and Hong Kong.

Dalee Sambo Dorough, an Alaskan Iñupiaq leader, is renowned for her work in human rights law, Indigenous empowerment, and Arctic governance. With a Master's degree from The Fletcher School, Tufts University and a PhD in Law from University of British Columbia, she has long championed Indigenous rights. Her leadership spans decades, including roles at the Inuit Circumpolar Council, UN bodies, and academia. A key contributor to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, she’s received numerous honors, such as the Reebok Human Rights Award, an honorary doctorate from Durham, and the IASC Medal in 2022. Her work continues to impact global Indigenous policy.

Christoph Grabenwarter is a professor of Public Law, Commercial Law and International Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He has been a member of the Constitutional Court since 2005, served as its Vice-President from 2018-2020, and has been its President since February 2020.

Anmol Gulecha is a PhD candidate at Tilburg University where she is exploring how courts evaluate scientific evidence in public interest litigation cases. Alongside her PhD, she is interning at the IAEA. She is also the managing editor of International Organizations Law Review.

Tomoko Ishikawa is a Professor of International Law at Nagoya University, Japan. She has served as an ICSID Conciliator (2017–2023), appointed by the Chairman of the Administrative Council, as a member of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Energy Charter Treaty, as an advisory board member of the Investment Treaty Forum, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, as an arbitrator at the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration, as a mediator at the Japan International Mediation Center. Her professional experience includes serving as an Associate Judge at the Tokyo District Court and as Deputy Director of the International Legal Affairs Bureau at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Professor Ishikawa currently leads a multidisciplinary research programme on climate change governance and low-carbon hydrogen (July 2023–March 2029), which brings together legal, policy, and technical perspectives on the energy transition.

Ndanga Kamau is an independent arbitrator based in France. She sits as arbitrator in disputes involving states, state entities, private parties, and international organisations. She has expertise in Africa-related disputes and has experience with procedural and substantive laws in civil law, common law, and mixed jurisdictions. Her academic background in economics reinforces her proficiency in issues related to compensation, damages, and interest. Ndanga is a former vice president of the ICC Court (2018-2024) and is a member of the Council of the ICC Institute and the ICCA Governing Board. She is also an honorary senior fellow and trustee of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL). Ndanga was called to the Bar of England & Wales by Middle Temple.

Georg E. Kodek is President of the Austrian Supreme Court. In addition, he is professor of civil and commercial law at the Vienna University of Business and Economics (WU). He also served as an expert in several projects of the Council of Europe and the European Union in several CEE countries. Foreign academic appointments include a visiting professorship at the Max Planck Institute in Luxemburg and visiting researcher at QUT in Brisbane, Australia.

Christian Koller is a professor and Vice Dean and Study Program Director at the University of Vienna and was formerly a professor at the University of Innsbruck. His academic background includes serving as a Post-Doctoral Researcher and Erwin-Schrödinger-Fellow at the University of Zurich from 2009 to 2011. Christian Koller specializes in international commercial arbitration and litigation. His main areas of interest include domestic and international civil procedure and its interfaces with private law, as well international insolvency law, conflict of laws and comparative law.

Ursula Kriebaum is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Vienna; member of the: Permanent Court of Arbitration; ICSID Panels of Arbitrators and Conciliators; Panel of Arbitrators under the Withdrawal agreement of the UK from the EU; Panel of Trade and Sustainability Experts under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and the UK; Arbitration Panel for the Protocol on Cultural Cooperation to the FTA between the EU and its Member States and the Republic of Korea nominated by the Austrian government for the election of the Austrian judge to the European Court of Human Rights election in 2007 and 2023 as well as legal expert in investment arbitrations and human rights cases. 

Rosa María Lastra is the Sir John Lubbock Chair in Banking Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. She is co-director of the Sovereign Debt Forum, co-director of the UNIDROIT-QMUL Institute of Transnational Law and Vice-Chair of MOCOMILA. She is a renowned author in her areas of expertise and has consulted for the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, the World Bank, the Bank for International Settlements, the Bank of England, United Nations (UNCTAD), the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the European Parliament. She has served as Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords during six parliamentary inquiries in 2009, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026.

Matthias Lehmann is a full professor for private law, private international and comparative law at the University of Vienna. He is interested in conflicts of laws and comparative law issues and international arbitration and litigation. He has published numerous articles and books, and is teaching as a guest professor at Sorbonne University (France), the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), and National University Singapore. Matthias Lehmann has taught and published a course at the Academy of International Law in The Hague. He is a member of the European Law Institute, the American Law Institute, the Academia Europaea, and the International Academy of Comparative Law. Matthias Lehmann has participated in the European Commission's Expert Group on Conflict of Laws Regarding Securities and Claims, and in various working groups of UNIDROIT and HCCH, inter alia on digital assets, digital tokens and verified carbon credits.

Federico Lenzerini, Ph.D., International Law, is Professor of International Law and International Human Rights Law at the Department of Political and International Sciences of the University of Siena (Italy). He is also Professor at the LLM Programme in Intercultural Human Rights at the St. Thomas University School of Law, Miami (FL), USA, and Professor at the Tulane-Siena Summer School on International Law, Cultural Heritage and the Arts. He is Deputy Head of the Hawaiian Kingdom’s Royal Commission of Inquiry and Chair of the Garifuna Reparations Working Group (GRWG), St. Vincent and the Grenadines. He has been the Rapporteur of the ILA ‘Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ and Rapporteur of the ILA Committee on ‘Implementation of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’.

Wendy Lin is the Head of the Asset Recovery & International Enforcement Practice, Deputy Head of the Commercial & Corporate Disputes Practice, and a Partner in the International Arbitration Practice, of WongPartnership LLP. Her expertise includes high-value, multijurisdictional and complex commercial, fraud and asset recovery disputes before the Singapore Courts and before arbitral tribunals. Beyond her role as counsel, Wendy LIN regularly sits as arbitrator in cases administered by the SIAC, ICC, and HKIAC. Wendy LIN is Co-Chair of the ILA Committee on Conflict-of-Laws Issues in International Arbitration and Regional Representative South East Asia of the International Bar Association Asset Recovery Committee. She served as Co-Chair of YSIAC from 2019 to 2024.

Yan Liu is General Counsel and Director of the Legal Department of the International Monetary Fund. She advises the IMF’s Executive Board, management, staff, and country membership on all legal aspects of the Fund’s operations, including its lending, surveillance, capacity development, regulatory and advisory functions.  Over her career at the IMF, Ms. Liu has led the Legal Department’s work on a range of policy, country, and strategic issues. This includes reforming IMF policies on lending; helping strengthen central banking and financial sector legal frameworks in response to technological changes; and leading work on corporate and household insolvency, and public debt management.

Violeta Moreno-Lax is the inaugural Wübben Foundation Professor of International Law and the Director of the Hertie School’s Centre for Fundamental Rights. She is also a Full Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London (on leave), where she leads the (B)OrderS Centre for the Legal Study of Borders, Migration, and Displacement. She is also a Visiting Professor of the College of Europe and a legal adviser and founding member of the de:border / / migration justice collective, focusing on strategic litigation. Previously, she held the ICREA Research Professorship in International and European Law at the University of Barcelona. Moreno-Lax has published extensively in international and EU law at the intersection with migration and human rights. As a leading expert in these fields, she regularly consults for UN agencies, the EU institutions, and other organisations. Her work has been cited by senior courts, including the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Belgian Conseil d’État. She sits on the Editorial Boards of the European Journal of Migration and Law and the International Journal of Refugee Law

Lauri Mälksoo is Professor of International Law at the University of Tartu in Estonia. He is member of the Institut de Droit International and of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe. He has published widely on the history and theory of international law, especially in East European and Eurasian contexts. He is the author of a recent monograph "Russia, the Soviet Union, and Imperial Continuity in International Law" (OUP, 2025) and is co-editor in chief of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (De Gruyter Brill).

Gerd Oberleitner is professor of international law, UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Human Security and Director of the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy at the University of Graz. He worked in the Austrian Foreign Ministry and was Lecturer at LSE’s Centre for the Study of Human Rights, and was Visiting Professor at the universities Québec à Montréal, Addis Ababa, Prishtina, Ljubljana, Rutgers, Antwerp, and DAAD Visiting Professor at the University of Bochum. He is co-editor of the European Yearbook of Human Rights. Publications include Blurring Boundaries - Human Security and Migration (Brill 2017), Human Rights in Armed Conflict: Law, Practice, Policy (CUP 2015), International Human Rights Institutions, Tribunals and Courts (Springer 2018), and Research Handbook on International Law and Human Security (Edward Elgar 2022).

Dr. The Hon. Mme. Justice Chantal Ononaiwu is a Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) and Chair of the CCJ Academy for Law. She has specialist expertise in Caribbean Community Law and International Law, including International Trade Law, and varied legal experience as an adjudicator, litigator, legal advisor and university lecturer. Justice Ononaiwu was the Director, External Trade at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, leading the coordination of CARICOM’s external trade policy and serving as a negotiator of CARICOM’s international trade agreements. She is the ILA's Diversity and Inclusion Officer, President of the ILA Caribbean Branch and was a member of the ILA Study Group on the International Law of Regional Organizations.

Nikolaus Pitkowitz is founding partner and head of the Dispute Resolution practice of Pitkowitz & Partners and a world-leading arbitration practitioner. He has acted as counsel or arbitrator in over 140 international disputes across Europe, the Americas and Asia in a wide range of industries. Nikolaus Pitkowitz served as president of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC) and regularly sits as arbitrator under the rules of all leading arbitration institutions. He is a Court Member of CIMAC, Casablanca and Co-Chair of the ILA Committee on Conflict-of-Laws Issues in International Arbitration. He holds law degrees from University of Vienna (JD and PhD) and the University of Sankt Gallen (MBL), is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and certified as a mediator.

Kirsten Schmalenbach is Professor of Public International Law and European Union Law at Paris Lodron University Salzburg (Austria). She serves as Vice President of the Austrian Branch of the International Law Association, was as a member of the ILA Study Group on the International Law of Regional International Organizations, and currently sits on the ILA Committee on Business and Human Rights. Reflecting her expertise in treaty law, she co edits, with Oliver Dörr, the Commentary on the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, published by Springer International. From late 2024 to mid 2025, she was a Senior Fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS), conducting research on “The Legal Personality of Natural Entities”.  Between 2021 and 2025, she was the Principal Investigator of a project on the United Nations’ third party liability, funded by the Austrian Science Fund.

Emmanuel Sebijjo Ssemmanda is Dean of the Faculty of Law of the International University of East Africa,  where he teaches Public International Law and International Trade Law, including EAC, AfCFTA and EU law. He is also the Executive Director at the African Institute of Regional Integration Studies, a think-tank on regional integration processes in Africa, as well as Director at the Centre for Law, Economics and Policy on East African Integration, a research centre on the process of East African integration. Emmanuel served on the ILA Study Group on the International Law of Regional Organizations, where he made research contributions on African regional economic communities. 

Hélène Tigroudja is Professor at Aix-Marseille University (France) and Visiting Professor of Public International Law at CIL - NUS (Singapore). Since 2019, she has served as a Member of the UN Human Rights Committee (surpervisory body of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights) and in 2025, she was elected as its Vice-Chair. She publishes extensively in public international law and international human rights law. She recently published her collected Course at the Hague Academy of International Law on « Armed Conflicts and International Human Rights Law » (Brill, 2025) and she co-authored International Rights Law - A Treatise (CUP, 2025).

Pierre-Hugues Verdier is the Sullivan and Cromwell Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School. He is the author of Global Banks on Trial (2020) and co-editor of Comparative International Law (2018), both from Oxford University Press, author of the AJIL article International Finance and the Return of Geopolitics (2025) and special editor of JIEL dual special issue on the same topic. He clerked for the Supreme Court of Canada and practiced at Cleary Gottlieb. He has held visiting positions at Harvard, Chicago, Münster, and the Hebrew University. Verdier holds degrees from McGill and Harvard, and is an elected member of the American Law Institute.

Michael Waibel is a professor of international law at the University of Vienna whose scholarship centres on international law, international economic law, sovereign debt, and international dispute settlement. His work has been recognised with the Deák Prize, the ESIL Book Prize, and a Leverhulme Prize. He serves as Co Editor in Chief of the European Journal of International Law and Co General Editor of the ICSID Reports. He is a member of MOCOMILA. He previously taught at the University of Cambridge and held visiting positions at St. Gallen and Harvard. He studied law in Vienna, Paris II, and Harvard, economics at the LSE, and worked at the ECB, World Bank, and IMF.

Romesh Weeramantry specialises in public international law, international commercial arbitration, and investment treaty law. He is a Special Counsel at Clifford Chance in Australia, where he acts as counsel in a number of investment treaty arbitrations, predominantly relating to the APAC region. Romesh is also a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne, where he teaches courses on international law, as well as investment treaty arbitration. Prior to this appointment, he was a Full Adjunct Professor at the National University of Singapore and the Head of International Dispute Settlement Programme at the NUS Centre for International Law.

Chiara Zilioli has been Director General of Legal Services of the European Central Bank since 2013, leading a team of about 130 lawyers. She is the Chair of MOCOMILA. In 1989, she joined the Legal Service of the Council of Ministers in Brussels; in 1995 she moved to the European Monetary Institute, to prepare the Monetary Union. She holds an LL.M. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the European University Institute. In 2016, she was appointed honorary professor of law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität in Frankfurt. She has published numerous articles and 4 books.

Gentian Zyberi is the Head of Department (2025-2027) and Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. Professor Zyberi has been a member of the UN Human Rights Committee (2019-2022) and a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague, the Netherlands (2016-2028). He has served as chair (2025-2026) and member (2023-2028) of the Scientific Committee of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency. His over 20 years’ academic career includes working at universities in the Netherlands, Norway, Kosovo, North Macedonia, China, the US, and Albania. Professor Zyberi has also practised before international courts and tribunals, including the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice.