Prof. Dr. Bernard Hanotiau is a former vice-president of CEPANI and of the LCIA Court. He is a member of the Board of the DIAC, of the Court of Arbitration of SIAC and a member of the Procedure Committee of the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitrators, as well as a member of the HKIAC International Advisory Board. He is also a mediator, certified by the Belgian Ministry of Justice.
Prof. Dr. Hanotiau has been involved in more than 350 international arbitration cases as arbitrator, counsel and expert in all parts of the world. Among the parties engaged in these arbitrations have been states (including on the basis of bilateral investment treaties) and state entities, high technology and telecommunications corporations, construction and real estate companies, oil, gas and mining companies, water and electricity suppliers, pharmaceutical and chemical companies, automobile manufacturers, distributors and manufacturers of satellites, airlines and railways, GDS’ operators, banks and investment companies. He is also frequently appointed as arbitrator in UNCITRAL and other ad-hoc arbitration cases.
Prof. Dr. Hanotiau is a member of the board of editors of the Journal of International Arbitration, the Journal of International Dispute Settlement, the International Business Law Journal (Paris), The American Review of International Arbitration, The World Arbitration and Mediation Review and the Revista de Arbitragem e Mediação (Brazil) and past co-chair of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association. He is the author of Complex Arbitrations: Multiparty, Multicontract, Multi-issue and Class Actions (Kluwer, 2006) and of more than 120 articles, most of them relating to international commercial law and arbitration, and he frequently lectures on this topic. He is Professor Emeritus at the Law School of Louvain University.
He has a Ph.D. from Louvain University and an LL.M. from Columbia University (1973). In March 2011, Prof. Dr. Hanotiau received the GAR “Arbitrator of the Year” award.
