Gary Born

Gary Born is the author of International Commercial Arbitration (2nd ed. 2014) and International Arbitration Law and Practice (2nd ed. 2015). He has taught International Arbitration and International Law in many leading academic institutions, including Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, Tsinghua University, National University of Singapore, and the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He is the President of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) Court of Arbitration; Jerusalem Arbitration Center’s Court of Arbitration; and Chair, International Arbitration Practice Group at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP.

He has served as counsel in over 650 international arbitrations and is widely regarded as the world's preeminent authority on international commercial arbitration and international litigation. He has been ranked for the past 20 years as one of the world's leading international arbitration practitioners and the leading arbitration practitioner in London.

Professor Born is a member of the American Law Institute and of the Board of Trustees of the British Institute for International and Comparative Law. He has served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, the Advisory Committee of the ALI's Restatement of US International Arbitration Law, the Advisory Committee of the ALI Restatement of US Foreign Relation Law (Fourth) and as co-chair of the ABA International Section, Committee on International Aspects of Litigation. He is also a Vice President of the American Society of International Law.

Professor Born is President of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) Court of Arbitration, a member of the International Advisory Board of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), a member of the Global Advisory Board of the New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC), a member of the International Arbitration Committee of the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB) and a member of the Jerusalem Arbitration Center's Court of Arbitration.

He is a member of the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, the Advisory Board of African International Legal Awareness, the Advisory Board of the Indian Journal of Arbitration Law and the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of World Investment and Trade.

His fuller profile is available here.