Gordon Blanke
Dr. Blanke has extensive and wide-ranging experience in all types of international commercial and investment arbitration in both common- and civil law jurisdictions, having acted as advising counsel and arbitrator under most leading institutional arbitration rules (including the ICC, LCIA, DIAC, DIFC-LCIA, ADCCAC, GCC, SCC and JAMS arbitration rules) and ad hoc (including GAFTA and LMAA) in arbitrations seated in the US, Europe, the Middle East and Asia in relation to a variety of industry sectors, including aviation, private equity, banking and finance, construction/real estate, commodities, hospitality, travel/leisure, cosmetics, IT, telecoms, oil & gas, shipping etc. Dr. Blanke has also been appointed to the CIETAC, ADCCAC and CRCICA Panel of Arbitrators. Dr. Blanke has sat as Chairman, Sole Arbitrator and Co-arbitrator in over 50 ICC, SCC, DIFC-LCIA, DIAC, ADCCAC, AjCCCA and ad hoc arbitrations, including international commercial, construction, real estate, corporate and other disputes of varying sizes, governed by English, Swedish and UAE law and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in London, England. Dr. Blanke is also affiliated to a number of professional organisation, in which he plays an active part, including the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators London, London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the Austrian Arbitration Association, the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC), the German Arbitration Institution (DIS), the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA), the ICC Commission on Arbitration & ADR, the ICC Commission on Competition, the IBA Arbitration and Antitrust Committees, the Legal Task Force of the Djibouti International Arbitration Centre (DJIAC) and the International Arbitration Institute (IAI), Paris.