Salim Moollan named as new vice president of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC

20 July, 2009

Mr Salim Moollan of Mauritius and France has been elected by the ICC World Council as one of the 12 new vice presidents of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. He took office on 1 July 2009.

Mr Moollan is an independent Arbitrator and a barrister with Essex Court Chambers. He is fluent in French and English and holds a mathematics degree from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, a political science and economics degree from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, and an MA in law from Downing College, Cambridge. He is the Mauritian delegate to UNCITRAL, an editor of Arbitration International, and was closely involved in the drafting of the Mauritian International Arbitration Act 2008.  He is a Visiting Lecturer in Arbitration Law at King’s College London.

The other new vice presidents are: Mr Mohammed Chemloul of Algeria; Ms Karyl Nairn of Australia; Mrs Vera Van Houtte of Belgium; Ms Teresa Yeuk Wah Cheng of China; Mr Alexis Mourre of France; Mr Jan Paulsson of France and Sweden; Mr Klaus Sachs of Germany; Mr Ciccu Mukhopadhaya of India; Mrs Loretta Malintoppi of Italy; Mr Vladimir V. Khvalei of Russia; and Mr Laurent Levy of Switzerland and Brazil.

Three vice presidents were renamed to a second three year term: Mr Alan Redfern of the United Kingdom; Mr Carl F. Salans of the United States; and Mr Claus von Wobeser of Mexico.

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