Consultant and Independent Arbitrator
Prof. Paulsson is widely regarded as the world's preeminent authority on international arbitration. Jan participated in more than 900 arbitration cases. He is currently based in Bahrain, and previously based for more than 25 years in Paris, where he headed the global arbitration and public international law groups at a large international law firm, which for many years under his leadership held first place in the Global Arbitration Review (GAR) list of 100 top international arbitration practices. He is a past president of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and has served as a vice-president of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. A graduate of Harvard College, Yale Law School (where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal), and the University of Paris (Sorbonne), Jan Paulsson has written a number of well-known textbooks on international arbitration.
