Filip Balcerzak - FDI Moot

Curriculum VitaePERSONAL INFORMATIONName:Balcerzak FilipAddress: ul. Taczaka 18/561-818 Poznań, PolandMobile Phone: +48509154805E-mail:balcerzak@icam.esDate of Birth: 30.11.1985Nationality: PolishBAR ASSOCIATIONMember of the Madrid Bar Association,registered at the Warsaw Bar Association as foreign lawyer practicing in PolandEDUCATION2010 – currently Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań, Poland, Ph.D. in Law2012 French Arbitration Committee, Paris, France, International Academy for Arbitration Law2010 – 2011 University of Ottawa, Canada, Master of Laws - LL.M., concentration: InternationalTrade and Foreign Investment Law, scholarship: Edward Barry McDougall MemorialScholarship for Graduate Studies in Law2010 – 2011 University of Alcalá, Spain, Spanish Law for Foreign Lawyers (distance learning)2004 – 2009 Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań, Poland, Master of Law2005 – 2008 Institute of Continuing Education – University of Cambridge, Introduction to English Lawand the Law of the European Union (distance learning)WORK EXPERIENCE06.2013 – currently Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment - Columbia University inthe City of New York, Research Assistant (remote work)01.2013 – currently Spaczyński Szczepaniak i Wspólnicy, Poznań, Poland, Litigation, Associate12.2011 – 12.2012 Domański Zakrzewski Palinka, Warsaw, Poland, Spanish Desk, Junior Associate05.2011 – 06.2011 University of Ottawa, Canada, Faculty of Law, Professor Céline Lévesque, ResearchAssistant03.2010 – 08.2010 Weremczuk Bobeł and Partners, Poznań, Poland, lawyer09.2008 – 02.2009 Monereo Meyer Marinel-lo Abogados, Barcelona, Spain, Litigation Department andPolish Desk, internLANGUAGESPolishSpanishEnglishFrenchmother tongueproficiency level (certificate DELE – Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera,Instituto Cervantes, Nivel Superior, level C2)proficiency level (CAE – Certificate in Advanced English, University of Cambridge, levelC1; TOEFL – Test of English as a Foreign Language, Educational Testing Service,110/120 points; IELTS – International English Language Testing System, 8,5/9 points)basic knowledge1

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES- Director of academic grant financed by the National Science Centre Poland for research project“Arbitration based on international investment treaties and human rights”, to be conducted for a period of2 years- Arbitrator in the seventeenth (2010), eighteenth (2011) and nineteenth (2012) edition of the “Willem C.Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot”- Arbitrator in the written part of the fourth (2011) and fifth (2012) edition of the “Foreign DirectInvestment International Arbitration Moot”MEMBERSHIPS IN ORGANIZATIONS- Spanish Arbitration Club (CEA – el Club Español del Arbitraje)- Society of International Economic Law (SIEL)- Young Arbitrators Forum of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC YAF)- Young Arbitration Practitioners in Poland (YAPP)PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES28 – 30.06.2013 “Eighth Conference on Legal Translation, Court Interpreting and ComparativeLegilinguistics (Legal Linguistics)”, Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań, Poland,speech: “Interpretation of ambiguous provisions of international investment treatiesauthenticated in two or more languages”23 – 26.04.2013 “IX Latin American Congress on Private Law”, Latin American Association of PrivateLaw, San Juan, Argentina, speech: “State responsibility in Poland. Main points ofinterest” (in Spanish)25 – 26.01.2013 “2nd Conference of the Postgraduate and Early Professionals/Academics of the Society ofInternational Economic Law (PEPA/SIEL)”, Society of International Economic Law incooperation with the Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany, speech: “The fairand equitable treatment standard in investor – state arbitration in the light of humanrights”27 – 28.11.2012 „A seminar of young researchers and practitioners” during the conference “Arbitrationand third persons”, Kozminski University, Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber ofCommerce, Silesian University, Katowice, Poland, speech: “Jurisdiction of arbitraltribunals based on investment treaties and the issue of consent of host states to arbitrate asa result of the application of the most favored nation treatment standard – for and against”27 – 28.01.2012 “1st Conference of the Postgraduate and Early Professionals/Academics of the Society ofInternational Economic Law (PEPA/SIEL)”, Society of International Economic Law incooperation with the Institute of Law and Economics of the University of Hamburg andLeiden University, Hamburg, Germany, speech: “Determination of compensation ininvestor – state arbitrations: is there a place for human rights arguments?”09 – 10.05.2011 “No Boundaries: Transnational Law and a New Order of Global Governance”, OsgoodeHall Law School of York University, Toronto, Canada, speech: “Jurisdiction of thearbitral tribunals in investment disputes”04.02.2011 “XX Annual Symposium on Conflict Resolution”, Saint Paul University, CarletonUniversity, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, speech: “Amicus curiae ininternational proceedings concerning trade and investment. Different approach than inhuman rights fora?”2

PUBLICATIONS- “Jurisdiction of Tribunals in Investor – State Arbitration and the Issue of Human Rights”, in print,to be published in: ICSID Review (Oxford University Press, ISSN 0258-3690)- “Determination of compensation in investor – state arbitrations: is there a place for human rightsarguments?”, in print, to be published in: “Frontiers of International Economic Law – Tools to ConfrontEconomic and Social Challenges”, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers – Brill, Leiden, the Netherlands- “Jurisdiction of arbitral tribunals in investment cases and the issue of broadening consent of host states byapplication of most favored nation clauses” (in Polish, with Stanisław Sołtysik), in print, to be publishedin: Problemy Prawa Prywatnego Międzynarodowego, Katowice, Poland, ISSN 1896-7604- “State Responsibility in Poland” (in Spanish), in: Suplemento de Derecho de las Obligaciones y de laResponsabilidad Civil (June 2013, Internet access: http://www.eldial.com.ar, hard copy in print), BuenosAires, Argentina, ISBN 978-987-1799-11-4- “Sri Lanka breached BIT due to Central Bank and Supreme Court actions; dissenter says highest courtdid not act in bad faith in financial derivatives dispute”, “On jurisdiction, arbitrators disagree whether ahedging agreement is an investment covered by bilateral investment treaty and ICSID Convention”, “Onmerits, tribunal splits on deference to be shown to Sri Lanka Supreme Court – and whether a debt isexpropriated if contractual dispute forum is available” (with Luke Eric Peterson), a series of articles in:Investment Arbitration Reporter (www.iareporter.com, 21 February 2013)- “Polish court rules on release of investment arbitration awards under freedom of information law”(withJarrod Hepburn), in: Investment Arbitration Reporter (www.iareporter.com, 2 January 2013)- “International Academy for Arbitration Law” (in Polish), in: ADR. Arbitraż i Mediacja (4(20)/2012),Warsaw, Poland, ISSN 1898-942X- “Amicus curiae submissions in investor – state arbitrations”, Common Law Review (2012, issue 12),Prague, Czech Republic, ISSN 1213-4678- “Parties to the international commercial arbitration”, in: “Justice in the Russian Federation and Poland:problems of the theory and practice”, Irkutsk 2010, Russian Federation, ISBN 978-5-9624-0423-3- “Diplomatic protection as a human right?”, in: “Unia Europejska. Członkowstwo Polski, partnerstwoRosji” (2009), Poznań, Poland, ISBN 978-83-60550-21-2- “Make them bleed! Penalty clauses and liquidated damages in English and Polish Law”, Common LawReview (2007, issue 8), Prague, Czech Republic, ISSN 1213-46783