Co-Chairs:				Margrete Stevens King & Spalding 1700 Pennsylvania Ave NW Suite 200 Washington DC 20006 USA Tel: +1 (202) 626-5597 Fax: +1 (202) 626-3737 mstevens@kslaw.com
Vice-Chairs:				Barton Legum Debevoise & Plimpton LLP 21 avenue George V Paris 75008 France Tel: +33 (1) 4073 1212 – (202) 776 8443 Fax: +33 (1) 4720 5082 bartlegum@debevoise.com
				Anna C Joubin-Bret United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Palais des Nations 1211 GENEVA GENEVA France Tel +33 (41) 22 917 58 97  anna.joubin-bret@unctad.org

Mission Statement

The Mediation Committee has a subcommittee devoted to mediation with States. The primary objective of the subcommittee is to examine the current use of mediation in relation to investor-state disputes, to determine whether its wider use would benefit the investor-state dispute system in general (or discrete types of participants who use it in particular), to identify and assess obstacles to wider use of investor-state mediation, and to propose concrete measures that might be pursued to increase resort to mediation for investor-state disputes should our initial findings make such proposals appropriate.

UNCITRAL Model Law

Co-Chair:				John Michael Richardson 59 West 71st Street Apartment 3B New York NY10023-4113 USA Tel: +1 (212) 724 5462 Fax: +1 (212) 937 2444 lawsome@gmail.com
Co-Chair:				Birigit Sambeth Glasner Altenburger Rue Toepffer 11 bis Case Postale Geneva 1206 Switzerland Tel: +41 (22) 789 5020 Fax: +41 (22) 789 5021 sambeth.glasner@altenburger.ch

Mission Statment

The Mediation Committee has a subcommittee devoted to developments related to the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Conciliation. The primary objective of the subcommittee will be to study in detail certain provisions of the Conciliation Model Law, and make recommendations for its use and future adoption by national governments around the world. For example, since the adoption of the Conciliation Model Law, there has been much discussion about what could be done to internationally harmonise the end result of international mediations or conciliations – in other words how to harmonise the enforcement of settlement agreements. One of the aims of the subcommittee will be to examine and prepare a report on how states interested in enacting the Conciliation Model Law could harmonise their approach in regards to the application of Article 14.

Mediation Techniques

Co-Chairs:				Patricia Barclay Bonaccord Ecosse Limited  31 Merchiston Park Edinburgh EH10 4PW Scotland Tel: +44 (131) 202 6527  patricia@bonaccord.eu
				Nikolaus Pitowitz Graf & Pitkowitz Rechtsanwälte  Stadiongasse 2 Vienna 1010 Austria Tel: +43 (1) 401 17 Fax: +43 (1) 401 1740 pitkowitz@gmp.at

Chair:

James Boykin     Hughes Hubbard & Reed, LLP 1775 I Street, NW Suite 600 Washington DC 20006 USA Tel: +1 202-721-4751 Fax: +1 202-721-4646 boykin@hugheshubbard.com