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Helena Tavares Erickson, CPR’s Senior Vice President, Dispute Resolution Services & Corporate Secretary, oversees the Dispute Resolution Services and Panels departments in administering commercial matters. In addition, Ms. Erickson serves as CPR’s Challenge Review Officer, is the liaison to the Arbitration Committee and oversees CPR's Awards Program, CPR's Brazil Initiatives, and programming, logistics and sponsorship for CPR's Annual Meeting. Ms. Erickson began her career at CPR convening a number of CPR membership-based committees charged with designing industry or practice-focused ADR protocols, rules and other products. Under her direction, CPR released a new generation of books on conflict resolution topics. Ms. Erickson served as co-editor of Patent Mediation (2004), as editor of Drafting Dispute Resolution Clauses (2006) and as author of Drafting Dispute Resolution Clauses 2008 Supplement. Prior to joining CPR in 2004, Ms. Erickson practiced for over seventeen years with the litigation and arbitration groups of Dewey Ballantine and White & Case, including three years in White & Case’s Paris office, where she was admitted to the Paris bar. She has served as an advocate in arbitration proceedings under ICC, ICDR and UNCITRAL Rules, among others. She is a member of the bars of New York and Connecticut, is a member of the New York International Arbitration Club, and has been trained as a mediator. Ms. Erickson is a native speaker of Portuguese and proficient in French and Spanish.