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April 29, 2010 Thursday

American Arbitration Association Elects New Board of Directors

The American Arbitration Association issued the following news release:

The American Arbitration Association (AAA), the world's leading provider of conflict management and dispute resolution services, announced the election of 12 new members to the AAA's Board of Directors at its annual meeting held today in New York, New York.

The newly elected members of the board are as follows: Guillermo Aguilar-Alvarez, Esq. is Head of the Interna-tional Arbitration Group and a Partner at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP. Mr. Aguilar-Alvarez handles arbitrations and has also represented investors in investment disputes arising under Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and other bilateral investment treaties. He has handled a wide variety of disputes in many international venues under diverse legal systems (e.g., under the laws of Canada, several US states, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Venezuela, Spain, France and Sweden) involving parties of more than 30 nationalities. Mr. Aguilar-Alvarez served as Principal Legal Counsel for the government of Mexico for the negotiation and implementation of the North American Free Trade (NAFTA) and free trade agreements with Costa Rica, Bolivia, Colombia and Venezuela. He is also a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School.

Henri C. Alvarez, Esq. is the Co-Chair of the International Law Practice Group and a Partner at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP. Mr. Alvarez has over 20 years of experience in the field of international commercial arbitration and dispute resolution.

Since 1985, he has taught a course on arbitration at The University of British Columbia.

Mr. Alvarez has acted as both an arbitrator and as counsel in international and domestic commercial arbitrations involving investments, trade, franchising, licensing, distributorship, construction, forestry, oil and gas, energy, banking, corporate and general commercial disputes. He has served as a sole arbitrator, party-appointed arbitrator and Chairman in a number of international matters and conducted arbitrations in English, Spanish and French.

Jacquelin F. Drucker, Esq. is a full-time arbitrator of employment, labor, and complex commercial cases, with a nationwide and international practice. Ms. Drucker serves as a permanent labor arbitrator under dozens of collective bargaining agreements and handles cases in a wide variety of industries. As an employment arbitrator, Ms. Drucker handles cases involving the full range of statutory and contract claims under employment ADR systems and pursuant to individual employment contracts. She is on the adjunct faculty of Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the Cornell Institute on Conflict Resolution, where she teaches programs on employment arbitration, labor arbitration, mediation, employment law, and labor law. Ms. Drucker is a NEWS RELEASE Past Chair of the New York State Bar Association's Labor and Employment Law Section. She also served as that Section's CLE Chair and was Neutral Co-Chair of its Committee on ADR in Employment. She has also served as Neutral Chair of the American Bar Association's Labor and Employment Law Section Committee on ADR in Labor and Employment Law and was Chair of the New York County Lawyers Association Committee on Labor Relations and Employment Law.

John Fellas, Esq. is a Partner in the International Commercial Litigation and Arbitration practice group at Hughes Hubbard and Reed LLP. Mr. Fellas has practiced in both the U.S. and England in the fields of both international arbitration and litigation. He has acted as an advocate and arbitrator in major international commercial cases across several industries. Mr. Fellas is the Chair of the Practicing Law Institute Program, International Business Litigation and Arbitration. He is also a member of the Editorial Board for Global Arbitration Review.

Toni D. Hennike is Coordinator of the International Investments & Arbitration Group in Exxon Mobil Corpora-tion's Law Department. She leads a legal team that has direct responsibility for certain investor-state arbitrations and has coordination responsibility for other arbitrations. Ms. Hennike is an Adviser on The American Law Institute's Restatement of the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration, a member of the Advisory Board of The Institute for Transnational Arbitration, and belongs to the International Section of the American Bar Association, the American Society of International Law, and the Houston International Arbitration Club. She is admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of the United States, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and in the state courts of Texas and Oklahoma.

Jean E. Kalicki, Esq. is a Partner in the international arbitration and litigation practice groups at Arnold & Porter LLP. Ms. Kalicki has particular experience in investment treaty arbitration and has represented both investors and so-vereigns, in roughly equal numbers. In commercial arbitration, Ms. Kalicki has represented clients on five continents, as well as the United Nations. She serves as arbitrator for numerous institutions in both investment and complex commer-cial disputes, serving as Chair, sole arbitrator, and co-arbitrator. Ms. Kalicki is the long-time Chair of the DC Bar's In-ternational Dispute Resolution Committee, and teaches arbitration topics as an adjunct professor at both Georgetown University Law Center and American University's Washington College of Law. She has been widely recognized for her leadership in the field and was selected by Global Arbitration Review as among the top 30 women in arbitration world-wide.

Mark Kantor, Esq. serves as an arbitrator and mediator, and teaches courses in International Business Transactions and in International Arbitration as an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. He is a member of the ADR Advisory Board of the International Law Institute, the Editorial Board of Global Arbitration Review, the Board of Editors of the Journal of World Energy Law and Business, and the Board of Editors of The Banking Law Journal. Prior to retirement, Mr. Kantor was a partner in the Corporate and Project Finance Groups of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy.

David Kreider, Esq. is the General Counsel and Member of the Executive Leadership Team at Vodafone New Zealand. He is also an arbitrator, adjudicator and mediator. Mr.
Kreider has been appointed by various leading arbitral institutions and nominated by disputants themselves to serve as arbitrator in relation to a wide range of cases, involving telecommunications, computer networks and services, and China-related business matters, including among them complex, multi-party cases with very significant dollar amounts at stake.

Billy R. Martin, Esq. is a Partner in the Global Litigation practice at Howrey LLP, focusing on white collar criminal defense. Mr. Martin serves as an advisor to Fortune 500 corporations, private citizens, political leaders, professional athletes, entertainment industry celebrities, and local and foreign governments. He is also an accomplished negotiator whose experience includes bringing diverse constituencies and interests together to resolve community conflicts, often in the midst of highly charged political circumstances. Before entering private practice, Mr. Martin had an extensive public service career, beginning with service as a local prosecutor in Ohio and culminating with senior managerial and trial positions within the Department of Justice and the office of the US Attorney for the District of Columbia.

Michael D. Nolan, Esq. is a partner at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy LLP where he focuses on all phases of commercial litigation and arbitration. Mr. Nolan's practice has a particular focus on international arbitration and litiga-tion. He is consistently listed in Euromoney Guide, Experts in Commercial Arbitration and Chambers USA for interna-tional arbitration. Mr. Nolan also has substantial experience with compliance issues that arise under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, other anti-bribery laws and sanctions programs. He has developed and implemented an-ti-corruption programs for companies and financial services firms. Mr. Nolan teaches as an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Jan Paulsson, Esq. is a Principal Consultant and Co-Head of international arbitration and public international law groups at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. Mr. Paulsson has acted as counsel or arbitrator in hundreds of interna-tional arbitrations. He is President of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal and the EBRD Administrative Tribunal; and is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. Mr. Paulsson holds the Michael Klein Distin-guished Scholar Chair at the University of Miami and is a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. He is also a Profesor Honorario of the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas.

Edna Sussman, Esq. is the principal of SussmanADR LLC and has been appointed as the Distinguished ADR Prac-titioner in Residence by the Fordham University School of Law. Ms. Sussman has served as the arbitrator or mediator in over 150 domestic and international disputes and serves on leading ADR panels. She was elected to serve as chair-elect of the New York State Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section for the 2009-2010 term. Ms. Sussman was also elected to serve on the board of the College of Commercial Arbitrators. She is an arbitration trainer for the AAA and has published and lectured extensively on the arbitration and mediation process.
Contact: Wayne Kessler, 212/716-3975, kesslerw@adr.org
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