TRAC is pleased to announce that Dr. Georges Affaki and Dr. Christian W. Konrad have been recently admitted to TRAC’s panel of arbitrators.

Dr. Affaki is an independent arbitrator and mediator, qualified Avocat before the Court of Appeal of Paris, and Associate Professor of Law at the University of Paris.His legal practice transcends international arbitration and international banking and finance, spanning 22 years of corporate and private practice both as attorney at the Bar and as managing director heading the international financing legal group of a leading financial institution. He has a particular expertise in crisis management in global corporations and the strategy-setting and coordination of cross-border litigation and internal investigations.Prof. Dr. Affaki has served as chairman, panel and sole arbitrator under the rules of the leading arbitral institutions.

Dr. Konrad is an Austrian Attorney at Law, a Solicitor of England and Wales and admitted as Euroadvokat in the Slovak and Czech Republic.He specializes in commercial & corporate law, public international law and international commercial and investment arbitration, with particular emphasis on industrial engineering, construction, joint ventures, energy and infrastructure-related matters and commercial and corporate disputes in common and civil law jurisdictions.Dr. Konrad frequently serves as arbitrator and legal expert in ad-hoc arbitrations and in proceedings under the auspices of all major arbitral institutions and is a regular speaker, lecturer and author in the field of international commercial law, with a particular focus on international arbitration.