Our leadership team has extensive experience, including leadership roles in global corporations, expertise in applying behavioural sciences to legal conflicts, and direct involvement in significant international arbitration disputes. They have written or published more than 10 books and 50 articles on the subject of psychology and behavioural research focused on dispute resolution.
Mr Clarke has acted as a senior lawyer and General Counsel for large, international companies operating around the world. He’s lived and worked in Indonesia, Turkey, America, Singapore, Qatar and the U.K. After graduating from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, he qualified as a barrister before becoming an in-house lawyer.
In addition to supervising major disputes involving international arbitration, Mr Clarke has been an active contributor to the legal profession. Appointments have included Chair of the CCIAG (Corporate Counsels’ International Arbitration Group); Director and Court Member of the LCIA (London Court of International Arbitration); Governing Board of ICCA (International Council for Commercial Arbitration); Advisory Council to the Centre of Commercial Law Studies and the International Energy Institute at Queen Mary University London. Andrew is also on the Advisory Board of the Turkish Commercial Law Review and was appointed a Bencher of the Middle Temple in 2009. He retired as a barrister in 2020 and is no longer registered. He possesses a good command of Turkish, together with reasonable French and basic Indonesian.
Dr Vinson is recognised as a leading authority in the application of the Behavioural Sciences to the resolution of legal disputes. In the U.S., he is known for establishing the application of psychological principles and behavioural research methodologies for providing major companies and law firms with assistance for strategic advice in civil litigation and arbitration.
He is not a lawyer but an expert in human behaviour. His training in the social sciences includes an M.S. in Marketing Research, an M.A. in Sociology, and a PhD with an emphasis on the Psychology of Human Values, Attitudes and Decision Making. Dr Vinson has been a professor on the faculties of UCLA, the University of Southern California, a Visiting Professor of Law at the Tulane University of School of Law, and a member of the faculty of The Salzburg Seminar, Salzburg, Austria. And he is the former Chairman of the Institute of Legal Reform at the United States Chamber of Commerce. Dr Vinson has written extensively on the application of psychology and behavioural research for the resolution of legal disputes.
Mr Reichert sits as an international arbitrator with extensive experience across a wide range of subject matters, industries, governing laws and major institutional rules. He has served as chair, party appointee or sole arbitrator in more than 250 international disputes, often with very high monetary claims, particularly in arbitrations pursuant to ICSID, ICC, UNCITRAL, LCIA and ICDR Rules.
In his work to date as an international arbitrator, he has completed or is currently sitting in cases involving more than 24 sovereign states from all parts of the world and has had multiple appointments under the Energy Charter Treaty. He frequently sits in commercial cases located in New York, London, Paris and Geneva. In 2017 he was elected as a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators (US), being one of the few non-US arbitrators admitted to that body. He is a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport and currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration based in Dallas.
*As a director of Arbitration Sciences Limited, Mr Reichert does not provide legal advice either to the company or to its clients. He does not participate in any of the company’s ArbitrationResearchPanel™ studies. Anyone seeking his legal advice or wishing to nominate him as an arbitrator should contact Brick Court Chambers in London.
Mr Kingston brings over two decades of legal expertise to ASL. He practised law in California, advising both emerging and established businesses on a wide range of legal matters, including corporate formation, financing, governance, intellectual property, labour issues, regulatory compliance, and privacy/data protection.
Between 2013 and 2020, Mr Kingston held the position of general counsel for two different organisations. Prior to that, he served as the chief legal officer for an alternative investment fund focused on litigation finance, where he managed investments and underwriting and collaborated with outside counsel to maximise returns.
In line with ASL’s dedication to confidentiality and security, Mr Kingston is also responsible for operations and overseeing the cyber and electronic technology used by the company. This ensures the safeguarding of client data, information, and the secure exchange of communication between clients and the company.
Prof. Damasio is Dornsife Professor of Psychology, Philosophy and Neurology, at the University of Southern California. He is the Director of USC’s Brain and Creativity Institute. Damasio’s research in neuroscience has demonstrated the role that feelings and emotions play in social cognition and decision-making and advanced the understanding of the biology of consciousness. The Archives of Scientific Psychology has named Damasio one of the 100 most eminent psychologists of the modern era, and Sciences Humaines includes Damasio in its list of 50 key thinkers in the human sciences of the past two centuries. He is the recipient of numerous scientific prizes and holds several honorary doctorates from universities in the US and abroad, including the Sorbonne and the EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).
Originally trained as a Swiss lawyer, Markus also attended Stanford University, where he received his LLM and Ph.D. He has practised law with prominent law firms in Zurich, New York, Paris, and Brussels. In the corporate world, he has held the positions of General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer and executive board member for Swiss Re, UBS, and Credit Suisse. He is a recognised international authority for providing advice to corporate and investor-state management and boards of directors on difficult decisions relating to corporate matters, securities transactions, litigation, and regulatory investigations. His expertise is particularly recognised for his time travelling round the globe performing triage functions on scandals and court cases to help decide which ones should be fought and which to settle.
Meg Kinnear is an independent arbitrator and mediator at LKDR LLC, an international dispute resolution boutique founded in July 2024. Prior to this, she was elected as the Secretary-General of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and a Vice President of the World Bank (2009-24). In that capacity she oversaw the world’s premier investment arbitration facility, registering more than 750 cases during her tenure. Meg Kinnear headed the Canadian Trade Law Bureau from 1999-2009 where she was involved in the first NAFTA Chapter 11 investment arbitrations, trade dispute settlement and WTO cases. Her early career focused on litigation and arbitration before federal and provincial courts and tribunals in Canada (1982-99).
Lord Hope (David Hope) practised at the Scottish Bar as a member of the Faculty of Advocates for 24 years. He had an extensive practice in tax, construction and oil and gas law and sat occasionally as a sole arbitrator. In 1989 he was appointed to the bench as Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General of Scotland. He held these offices until 1996, when he was appointed to the House of Lords as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. In 2009 he was appointed to be the Second Senior Lord of Appeal, becoming Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom when that court was established in October 2009. He retired in 2013, having sat as an appellate judge for 24 years. He also sat as a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Lord Hope contributed to judgements in a number of appeals which raised issues of arbitration law, including the seminal Dallah v Pakistan and Fiona Trust cases. Since 2015 he has been the Chief Justice of the Abu Dhabi Global Market Courts. He is also active as a crossbench member of the House of Lords.
Prof. Loftus is the Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science; Criminology; Cognitive Science; and Law at the University of California, Irvine. She has been ranked in the Review of General Psychology as one of the most influential psychological researchers of the 20th century, along with Freud, Skinner, and Piaget. Her work helped usher in a paradigm shift, rendering obsolete the idea that our memories exist in some sort of mental library as literal representations of past events. Her work and expertise are particularly relevant to the credibility of witness testimony. In addition to testifying in over 300 cases, Prof. Loftus has published 24 books and more than 600 papers and articles relating to psychology and the law, human memory, and eyewitness testimony.
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Prof. Damasio is Dornsife Professor of Psychology, Philosophy and Neurology, at the University of Southern California. He is the Director of USC’s Brain and Creativity Institute. Damasio’s research in neuroscience has demonstrated the role that feelings and emotions play in social cognition and decision-making and advanced the understanding of the biology of consciousness. The Archives of Scientific Psychology has named Damasio one of the 100 most eminent psychologists of the modern era and Sciences Humaines includes Damasio in its list of 50 key thinkers in the human sciences of the past two centuries. He is the recipient of numerous scientific prizes and holds several honorary doctorates from universities in the US and abroad, including the Sorbonne and the EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).
Originally trained as a Swiss lawyer, Markus also attended Stanford University where he received his LLM and Ph.D. He has practised law with prominent law firms in Zurich, New York, Paris, and Brussels. In the corporate world, he has held the positions a General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer and executive board member for SwissRe, UBS, and Credit Suisse. He is a recognized international authority for providing advice to corporate and investor-state management and boards of directors on difficult decision relating to corporate matters, securities transactions, litigation, and regulatory investigations. His expertise is particularly recognized for his time travelling round the globe performing triage functions on scandals and court cases to help decide which ones should be fought and which to settle.
Meg Kinnear is an independent arbitrator and mediator at LKDR LLC, an international dispute resolution boutique founded in July 2024. Prior to this she was elected as the Secretary-General of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and a Vice President of the World Bank (2009-24). In that capacity she oversaw the world’s premier investment arbitration facility, registering more than 750 cases during her tenure. Meg Kinnear headed the Canadian Trade Law Bureau from 1999-2009 where she was involved in the first NAFTA Chapter 11 investment arbitrations, trade dispute settlement and WTO cases. Her early career focused on litigation and arbitration before federal and provincial courts and tribunals in Canada (1982-99).
Lord Hope (David Hope) practised at the Scottish Bar as a member of the Faculty of Advocates for 24 years. He had an extensive practice in tax, construction and oil and gas law and sat occasionally as a sole arbitrator. In 1989 he was appointed to the bench as Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General of Scotland. He held these offices until 1996, when he was appointed to the House of Lords as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. In 2009 he was appointed to be the Second Senior Lord of Appeal, becoming Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom when that court was established in October 2009. He retired in 2013, having sat as an appellate judge for 24 years. He also sat as a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Lord Hope contributed to judgments in a number of appeals which raised issues of arbitration law, including the seminal Dallah v Pakistan and Fiona Trust cases. Since 2015 he has been the Chief Justice of the Abu Dhabi Global Market Courts. He is also active as a crossbench member of the House of Lords.
Prof. Loftus is the Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science; Criminology; Cognitive Science; and Law at the University of California, Irvine. She has been ranked in the Review of General Psychology as one of the most influential psychological researchers of the 20th century along with Freud, Skinner, and Piaget. Her work helped usher in a paradigm shift, rendering obsolete the idea that our memories exist in some sort of mental library as literal representations of past events. Her work and expertise are particularly relevant to the credibility of witness testimony. In addition to testifying in over 300 cases, Prof. Loftus has published 24 books and more than 600 papers and articles relating to psychology and the law, human memory, and eyewitness testimony.