Prof. Chiara Giorgetti

Chiara Giorgetti has over 25 years of experience in international arbitration and dispute resolution focusing on both public international law and investment arbitration. Her work spans private practice, international organizations, and academia.

She has acted as counsel, adjudicator and expert in numerous investment arbitrations and inter-state proceedings, including the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commissions and the UN Compensation Commission. She is Vice-Chair of the Board of the Register of Damage for Ukraine and was a member of the Ad Hoc Conciliation Commission in Qatar v. United Arab Emirates, established under the UN CERD Committee. She practiced with the international arbitration groups of Lalive in Geneva and White & Case in Washington, DC.

Prof. Giorgetti is a tenured Professor of Law at Richmond Law School and Senior Fellow at International Claims and Reparations Project at Columbia Law School. She has served as Visiting Professor and taught international arbitration and international dispute resolution in both the US and Europe (Vienna, Geneva, Milan, Rome), and for the UN Regional Courses on International Law. She has written or edited eleven books and over eighty articles and chapters on international disputes and international arbitration.

Prof. Giorgetti clerked at the International Court of Justice. She is designated to the ICSID Panels of Arbitrators and Conciliators by San Marino and appointed by the European Commission on the EU list of arbitrators and TSD experts in bilateral disputes under the EU’s trade agreements with third countries.

She is a graduate of Bologna University and the London School of Economics, and she holds an LLM and JSD form Yale Law School. She is fluent in English, French and Italian and has a good working knowledge of Spanish.