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Urs Weber

Urs Weber-Stecher, President

The Swiss Commission of Arbitration and ADR of ICC

The Swiss Commission of Arbitration and ADR of ICC is the main body of ICC Switzerland responsible for the promotion of ICC Dispute Resolution Services in Switzerland and the coordination of Swiss contributions to the ICC Dispute Resolution activities, mainly in the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR in Paris (the “ICC Arbitration Commission”) and its Task Forces (Art. 2 and 3).

The Swiss Commission of Arbitration and ADR of ICC is entrusted with the following tasks:

it is at the disposal of the users of the ICC Rules to facilitate the choice of arbitrators;
it informs the members of ICC Switzerland, the parties involved in arbitration proceedings, their counsel and any other interested person about dispute resolution under the auspices of the ICC;
it coordinates the activities of the Swiss Delegates to the ICC Arbitration Commission and its Task Forces;
it comments in the name of ICC Switzerland on proposed modifications to the ICC Arbitration Rules, on the activities of the ICC Arbitration Commission and its Task Forces and on any other questions related to arbitration or mediation;
it assures the necessary coordination with the Swiss authorities (in particular the Federal Office of Justice) and relevant educational institutions (such as Universities offering arbitration courses and the Swiss Arbitration Academy);
it organises on a regular basis events on actual topics in the fields of arbitration, mediation and other dispute resolution mechanisms related to new developments in the ICC and the ICC Arbitration Commission and its Task Forces; and
it organizes annually a study tour to the ICC Court in Paris in order to facilitate contact between the Swiss arbitration practitioners, the Court and its Secretariat.

The members of the Swiss Commission of Arbitration and ADR of ICC commit themselves to promote arbitration, mediation and other dispute resolution mechanisms.

Members of the Swiss Commission of Arbitration and ADR

Diana Akikol, Walder Wyss
Homayoon Arfazadeh, PYTHON
Dominique Brown-Berset, Brown & Page
Christoph Brunner, Peter & Kim Ltd.
Xavier Favre-Bulle, Lenz & Staehelin
Simon Gabriel, Gabriel Arbitration
Pierre-Yves Gunter, Bär & Karrer
Philipp Habegger, Habegger Arbitration
Radu Ionescu, PMG Consulting Engineers & Economists
Laurent Killias, Pestalozzi
Christopher Koch, Landolt & Koch
Bernhard Meyer, MME PPartners
John Moetteli, Da Vinci Partners LLC
Christian Oetiker, Vischer AG
Philippe Preti, Mentha Advocats
Michael Schneider, LALIVE
Georg von Segesser, von Segesser Law Offices
Nathalie Voser, rothorn legal AG
Urs Weber-Stecher, President, Wenger & Vieli AG
Rabab Yasseen, Mentha Avocats

Members of the ICC Court

Diana Akikol, Walder Wyss
Laurent Killias, Pestalozzi
Daniel Hochstrasser, Bär & Karrer

The Swiss Arbitration Nomination Committee:

prepares proposals for nominations of arbitrators pursuant to Art. 13(3) of the ICC Rules 2017 (or as amended after the entry into force of these Organizational Regulations);
performs any other activity related to the work of the ICC and to the ICC Rules that may be assigned to the SNC by amended ICC Arbitration Rules.

The organization of the workflow of the SNC for the proposals for nominations of arbitrators is regulated in a workflow manual established and approved by the Swiss ICC Arbitration Commission (the "SNC Workflow Manual").

Members of the Swiss Arbitration Nomination Committee

Urs Weber-Stecher, Wenger & Vieli AG
Daniel Hochstrasser, Bär & Karrer
Homayoon Arfazadeh, PYTHON
Anne-Véronique Schläpfer, White & Case LLP

Contact Details

Emmanuelle Benitez de Roux
Swiss Commission of Arbitration and ADR of ICC / Commission suisse d'arbitrage et ADR de l'ICC
Hegibachstrasse 47, 8032 Zurich
Phone +41 44 421 34 50
Fax: +41 44 421 34 88
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