Instructors & Course Advisors
The International Law Institute’s training and technical assistance programs are conducted by international experts and practitioners of many nationalities. They are drawn from government, academia, multilateral organizations, and
the private sector.
These experts not only provide participants with high-level instruction, they also present an excellent opportunity to network and establish professional contacts.
Our instructors offer a thorough understanding of their fields of expertise and share with participants a wealth of knowledge tempered by practical experience.
Below is a sample of instructors who have taught at the International Law Institute.
Each seminar is directed by Course Advisors, appointed for their broad experience and knowledge of the topic. A typical seminar is taught by a number of lecturers – each chosen for their contributions to the field and professional accomplishments. Because the seminar is conducted by several instructors, participants benefit from a deeper and broader array of experience than would be possible in a course taught entirely by a single person.
Instructors
Grant Aldonas
Armando Araujo
Michael Bednarek
Francoise Bentchikou
Lorraine Brennan
Former Director of Arbitration & ADR,
ICC International Court of Arbitration
Lee Bucheit
J.D. Program,
University of Miami School of Law
Charles Buderi
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle
Esteban Buljevich
Allan Burman
Former Administrator, U.S. Federal Procurement Policy
Alex Chartove
Javade M. Chaudhri
Richard Chovanec
Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University
Rudy Clark
Prof. Stuart Cohn
Dorianne Lambelet Coleman
Sharon Cromer
Tom Davis
Gordon Elicker
Deborah Enix-Ross
Alejandro Escobar
Peter O. Evenson
Nabil Fawaz
Jesse Feder
James Feinerman
David Frederick
Judge Paul Friedman
Jonathan Fried
Judge William Froehlich
Atomic Safety & Licensing Board Panel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Judge Bohdan Futey
Samuel Goekjian
Alexandre de Gramont
Spencer Griffith
Ken Hansen
John Holsen
Howard Howe
Martin Jacobson,
Kelly Johnston
Former Secretary of the U.S. Senate
David Jones
Jean Kalicki
Former Partner, Arnold & Porter, LLP
Mark Kantor
Georgetown University Law Center
Meg Kinnear
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
Daniel Levin
Luis Martinez
Tadeo Martinez
Marshall Mays
Asia Alpha Systems Limited
John Murphy
Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Dept. of the Treasury
Govindan Nair
John Nellis
Adebayo Ogunlesi
Judith O'Neil
Kojo Osae-Addo
Aileen Piscoitta
Joe Profaizer
Lucy Reed
Timothy Reif
Alfanos Revollo
Mark Rossell
Victoria Rostow
Miguel Rubio
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation
Arthur Rynearson
Jeswald Salacuse
Judge Daniel Skoler
David Smith
Former, Vice Dean Harvard Law School
William Uchimoto
Former General Counsel of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange
Anne Marie Whitesell
Former Secretary General, ICC
Jane Willems
Susan Wilson
Don Zarin
Course Advisors
Akin Alcitepe concentrates his practice on complex commercial and construction litigation matters before international and domestic dispute resolution tribunals such as ICSID, ICC and the AAA as well as U.S. state and federal courts.
Seminars
FIDIC Contracts
Professor Don De Amicis is a professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches international business transactions, and a Senior Advisor at the International Law Institute.
Seminars
Contract Administration
Perry Bechky is a Partner at the law firm of Berliner Corcoran & Rowe LLP. Mr. Bechky has over 25 years of experience as an international lawyer.
Seminars
Advanced International Trade: Practical Application of Sanctions, Export Controls, Regulatory Compliance: Investment Controls, Applicable Defenses, and Trade Negotiations [Multijurisdictional Review]
Bernard Becq is the World Bank’s former Chief Procurement Policy Officer, Head of the Procurement Policy and Services Sectors Board.
Seminars
Procurement Integrity and Audit
International Public Procurement
Dr. Hans-Martin Boehmer is an Adjunct Professor at both Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs and the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy, as well as a Senior Fellow at the Duke Center for International Development. Hans has worked in international finance and development for over twenty years, including as Senior Manager in the World Bank Group’s Independent Evaluation Group.
Seminars
Project Preparation, Analysis, Feasibility, and Financing
Dr. Gerhard Botha was the Director of Programs at ILI. Previous to that, he worked for the World Bank as a senior sector specialist in legal and judicial reform and private and financial sector development. He has over 25 years experience in legal and labour relations practice, and in international development.
Seminars
Negotiations in International Development
Leadership, Management & Negotiations in International Development
Leadership and Management in International Development
Professor Reid Click is an Associate Professor of International Business and International Affairs at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Seminars
International Borrowing and Debt Management, Negotiation and Renegotiation
Jacob M. Coate is an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, where he specializes in antitrust and other complex litigation. He has a passion for making legal writing concise, straightforward, entertaining, and effective.
Seminars
Legal English and Legal Writing
Timothy L. Dickinson is a partner in the Washington D.C. office of Paul, Hastings LLP. His practice is devoted primarily to international commercial matters, including counseling on the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and the design and implementation of special investigations and compliance programs.
Seminars
Governance & Anticorruption: Effective Policy & Enforcement
Pascale Hélène Dubois has held senior leadership positions at the World Bank, including Vice President of Integrity. During her international development career, she shaped international policy and promoted global good governance through innovative strategies.
Seminars
Management and Leadership for Women in International Development
Kimberly K. Faith is formerly assistant counsel for the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the United States House of Representatives, where she drafted over 500 pieces of legislation for elected Members of Congress.
Warren Burke is the legislative counsel in the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the United States House of Representatives, where he drafts legislation on a nonpartisan basis.
Seminars
Advanced Legislative Drafting
Workshop on Legislative Drafting
Paul Freedman is the Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at the AES Corporation, a global energy company. Over his 17 years at AES he has advanced numerous transformative initiatives to position AES as a global leader in the acceleration of a cleaner energy future. Paul leads the global legal team, serves as a principal advisor to the Board and oversees our ethics and compliance functions.
Seminars
Capital Markets: Development, Regulation and Current Trends
Danielle de García is the Chief Program Officer and Vice President at Social Impact (SI). She has 15+ years of extensive experience with monitoring and evaluation, organizational capacity building, and participatory methodologies in more than 25 countries
Seminars
Project Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Professor H. Stephen Halloway is the Director of ILI’s Center for Comparative Legislative Management. He has over 35 years of experience in senior legal and policy positions in the U.S. Government, the U.S. Senate, the United Nations and the Inter-American Development Bank. He was Chief Regulatory Officer for the U.S. Department of Commerce and a civil rights attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice.
Seminars
Legislative Strategic Management
Governance & Anticorruption: Effective Policy & Enforcement
Seminars
Construction Law for Engineers and Architects
Understanding, Drafting, and Negotiating Contracts
Ian A. Laird is co-chair of the Crowell & Moring LLP’s International Dispute Resolution Group and an adjunct professor at Columbia University School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center.
Seminars
Innovations in Investor-State Arbitration
Melinda Levitt, Greg Neppl, Alan Rutenberg, Mark Grundvig, and Howard Fogt come from the antitrust and competition team of experts at Foley & Lardner LLP. The Foley team have collectively over 100 years of experience in antitrust and competition law in the Washington DC and Brussels Belgium offices of Foley & Lardner LLP
Seminars
Antitrust and Competition Laws: Foundations and New Developments
Carol Mates is an attorney specializing in business transactions, international development finance, and project finance with three decades experience at International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-sector financing arm of the World Bank Group, as well as prior experience at US law firms and the legal department of US-based multinational bank and, post-retirement from IFC, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Seminars
Project Finance Techniques: Applications and Recent Developments
Public Private Partnerships and Infrastructure Finance
Public Private Partnerships and Infrastructure Finance (For Lawyers)
Cesar Queiroz is an international consultant on roads and transport infrastructure. His main expertise is in public-private partnerships in infrastructure and road management and development.
Seminars
Public-Private Partnerships: Financial and Risk Analysis
Jane Rudy is a Cybersecurity Policy Writer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. In both defense and research environments, Jane’s work focuses on implementing secure systems under the Risk Management Framework. She has supported both tactical and strategic roles implementing technical and policy-based security controls.
Seminar
Cybercrime, Data Protection, and Transnational Cooperation
Allan Rotman is an experienced procurement and supply chain professional in the infrastructure, energy, water, urban and environment fields with more than 30 years of experience.
Seminars
Procurement Integrity: Prevention, Investigation, and Prosecution of Fraud
Dr. Borzu Sabahi is a Partner in the International Arbitration group of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle LLP in Washington, DC. He represents governments in international arbitration matters in a variety of sectors.
Seminars
International Investment Treaties and Investor- State Arbitration
Guly Sabahi is Senior Advisor, Climate Finance, at the NDC Partnership (co-hosted by UN Climate Change and WRI), where she provides strategic advice and thought leadership to facilitate the mobilization of private sector investment for implementation of NDCs in 80+ EMDEs. Prior to her current role, Guly has worked for 20 years (including as a law firm partner and C-suite executive), with both private and public sector stakeholders, on energy and infrastructure projects in EMDEs, as well as ESG, governance and compliance issues.
Seminars
Climate Change and Green Finance in International Development
Veljko Sikirica has more than 40 years’ experience in Engineering and Procurement, working at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development as well as the Inter-American Development Bank.
Seminars
Project Management
Jeannette Tramhel is an international lawyer with a special focus on issues concerning sustainable agriculture and food security. She has been involved in private international law, commercial, business and trade law for over 20 years with experience in the private and public sectors and International organizations.
Seminars
Achieving Food Security Through Public-Private Partnerships
Scott Walchak is a US qualified attorney and international PPP and Privatization consultant. He has worked with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in the development of Public Private Partnership standards, best practices, and guidance materials and regularly advises governments in their infrastructure and service delivery and PPP capacity building and implementation.
Seminars
Environmental Social Governance (ESG), Reporting Tools & Practices
Anne Marie Whitesell is a Professor and Faculty Director of the Program on International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution at Georgetown University Law Center and Director of the ILI Center on Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Seminars
Arbitration and Mediation
Foundations of Advanced Arbitration and Mediation
Advanced Arbitration and Mediation