George A. Bermann is professor of law and director of the Center for International Commercial and Investment Arbitration at Columbia Law School. He has been arbitrator in scores of international commercial and investment cases since 1985 under the aegis of most leading international arbitral institutions. He is head of the global advisory board of the New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC), fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, founding member of the Governing Board of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (Paris), head of the advisory board of the Thai Arbitration Center (Bangkok) and the Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration (Lahore, Pakistan), and board member of both the Tehran Regional Arbitration Center in Iran and the Japan Institute for International Arbitration Research and Training (Tokyo).

George Bermann was Chief Reporter of the ALI Restatement of the US Law of International Commercial Arbitration, co-editor-in-chief of the American Review of International Arbitration, and member of the board of editors of Revue de l’Arbitrage. He co-authored (with E. Gaillard) the UNCITRAL Guide to the New York Convention and authored many books (most recently Twilight Issues in International Arbitration), book chapters, and articles on international dispute resolution, notably international arbitration (most recently The Applicable Law in Investor-State Arbitration, in The Award in International Investment Arbitration (C. TiTi & K. Fach, eds.) (forthcoming 2024) and In the Cross-Fire between International Arbitration and E.U. Law, 2023 Paris J. Int’l Arb. 61 (2023)). He serves regularly as expert witness on issues of international arbitration before both national courts and arbitral tribunals. He represents the American Arbitration Association as observer in UNCITRAL Working Group III.