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Marianna Nitsch General Counsel, Europe, General Electric Marianna Nitsch serves as General Counsel, Europe for General Electric, responsible for supporting the businesses across Europe in delivering its growth objectives. She is also responsible for driving legal and compliance activities for Europe’s Global Growth and Operations organization, the legal and compliance strategy, corporate governance and regulatory excellence initiatives. Together with the European Government Relations Director she helps formulating and driving European policy shaping priorities. Prior to taking on her current position, Marianna was the European General Counsel for GE Capital Real Estate. She joined GE Real Estate as General Counsel, France in September 2007 from Biogen Idec (pharmaceutical industry), where she held the positions of Senior Director, International Legal, and Chief Compliance Officer. Before going in-house, Marianna spent 11 years in private practice, specializing in public M&A, with Shearman & Sterling, Gide Loyrette Nouel, and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Marianna has a deep legal expertise in general commercial and corporate matters, mergers & acquisitions and pharmaceutical and stock exchange regulations. Besides being admitted to the Paris bar, Marianna holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration and a master in Law from the University of Vienna, Austria, as well as a French post-graduate degree in International Economic Law from Paris I (Pantheon- Sorbonne). Of Austrian and English origin, she is fluent in French, English and German and has a good working knowledge of Italian. Stephan C Swinkels Executive Director, Member of the Board, L&E Global Stephan is attorney at law and executive director and member of the board of L&E Global. He is an award winning MBA graduate (cum laude) with an extensive international working experience and specialist legal degrees. Education: Master of Business Administration (MBA, cum laude), (2009), awarded with the Faculty Award for best student, ESMT (European School of Management and Technology), Berlin, Germany. Corporate and Commercial Law (2004), Grotius Academy, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Master of Civil Law (MA) (1992- 1998), Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands. Visiting Researcher (1997), Stanford University, Palo Alto, United States. Business Law (1997), UC Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, United States. Memberships: Member of the Associations of Commercial Lawyers and of Corporate Litigators. Member of the Dutch and International Bar Association. Professional Background: Consultant / Executive Assistant to the Group CFO (2010), Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Mainz, Germany. Legal Counsel (2005), Rabobank Private Equity, Utrecht, the Netherlands (Seconded). Attorney at Law / Senior Associate (1998-2007), Baker & McKenzie Attorney at Law, M&A Department, Amsterdam, the Netherlands/ London, United Kingdom. Publications: Firm Alliances, a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of a global law firm alliance, Managing Partner Magazine (2011). MBA Diarist: contributor on MBA experience to the Financial Times (2009). German foreign correspondent to Dutch weekly magazine “De Groene Amsterdammer” (2007-2008) Page 2
Session 102: ICC Arbitration Rules as of 1 January 2012 Jason Fry Secretary General, ICC Court of Arbitration Jason Fry is Secretary General, ICC International Court of Arbitration (Paris) and Director of Dispute Resolution Services of the ICC. Mr Fry was appointed to his current position in 2007. Prior to his appointment Mr Fry was a partner of the international arbitration practice of Clifford Chance LLP, based in Paris. He has significant experience as counsel, advocate and arbitrator in international arbitration proceedings. Mr Fry is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and was the Member for New Zealand of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce from 1999 until 2007. He was a member of the drafting committee for the new 2012 ICC Rules of Arbitration. He is a board member of the International Mediation Institute and also member of the Supervisory Board of Columbia University's Vale Center on Sustainable International Investment in New York. Isabelle Hautot General Counsel International Affairs, France Télécom-Orange Isabelle M. Hautot Is a General Counsel for Orange Group (France Télécom SA) specifically in charge of the International expertise - Group litigation - General litigation - Corporate Social Responsibility & Real Estate; the vice-chair of the CCIAG (Corporate Counsel International Arbitration Group) and an Honorary member of the Paris Bar. Isabelle M.Hautot has 33 years experience, mainly acting as counsel and as arbitrator in ad hoc and institutional references as a member of the Paris Bar, specialized in international litigation and arbitration and a member of the ICC Institute Council. She also taught international arbitration and international commercial law at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, the University of Paris V René- Descartes, the Ecole Française des Barreaux and Bologna University. Prior to that, she participated in international contractual negotiations as an in-house counsel for Spie-Batignolles and Framatome. She speaks French, English and Italian. Dirk Knottenbelt Partner, Houthoff Buruma Dirk Knottenbelt is a member of the firm's dispute resolution department. He heads the arbitration team of Houthoff Buruma. Dirk Knottenbelt specialises in complex corporate and commercial arbitration and litigation. He litigates on a regular basis in Dutch courts, both first instance and in appeal. A large part of his practice consists of international arbitration work and other dispute resolution procedures with crossborder aspects. His clients include a broad range of Dutch, US and other international corporations. As counsel, Dirk Knottenbelt has acted in national and international commercial and investment arbitrations under the ICC, NAI, ICSID, UNCITRAL Rules, as well as other sets of rules such as GAFTA, NZV, AVZ and FENEX. Dirk has also served as sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator in a number of ad hoc and institutional high value arbitrations. He is an arbitrator at the ICC, the Netherlands Arbitration Institute and the Association Française d'Arbitrage. Page 3
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