Programme and presentations
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Amb. André Mernier
Secretary General, Energy Charter Secretariat
Ulf Franke
Secretary General, Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce
Jason Fry
Secretary General, International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce
Meg Kinnear
Secretary General, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
Christiaan Kröner
Secretary General, Permanent Court of Arbitration
Session 1: What's new ? Awards, decisions and other developments in recent ECT investment arbitrations
Chair: Norah Gallagher (Director, Investment Treaty Forum, British Institute of International and Comparative Law)
Plama v Bulgaria
Virginie Colaiuta (Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP)
Jonathan Hamilton (White & Case LLP)
Ioannis Kardassopoulos v Georgia
David Herlihy (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP)
Claudia Salomon (DLA Piper)
Amto v Ukraine
Kaj Hobér (Mannheimer Swartling)
Sergey Voitovich/Dmitry Grischenko (Grischenko & Partners)
HEP v Slovenia
Stephen Jagusch (Allen & Overy)
Azpetrol International Holdings B.V. v Azerbaijan
Stephen Jagusch (Allen & Overy)
AES v Hungary
Stephen Jagusch (Allen & Overy)
Jean Kalicki (Arnold & Porter LLP)
Session 2: BITs, the ECT and the EU: is conflict inevitable?
Chair : Christer Söderlund (Advokatfirman Vinge KB)
Markus Burgstaller
Lovells LLP
Richard Happ
Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
Esa Paasivirta
European Commission
Robert Volterra
Latham & Watkins LLP
Session 3: Provisional application: rien ne dure comme le provisoire...
Chair: James Crawford (Matrix Chambers)
Yas Banifatemi
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Alexandre de Gramont
Crowell & Moring LLP
Laurent Gouiffès
Lovells LLP
Michael Polkinghorne
White & Case LLP
Session 4: Transit disputes, supply disputes and the ECT: towards an East-West thaw?
Chair: Jonathan Stern (Director of Gas Research, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies)
Colin Brown
European Commission
Peter Cameron
Professor of International Energy Law and Policy, Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee
Kaj Hobér
Mannheimer Swartling
Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi
Magisters Ltd
Closing Remarks
Norah Gallagher
Director, Investment Treaty Forum, British Institute of International and Comparative Law
Stanimir Alexandrov
Sidley Austin LLP
Graham Coop
General Counsel, Energy Charter Secretariat