Advisory Board
Antonio Damasio, MD PhD
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).
Markus Diethelm, PhD
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
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 of Craighead
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.
Elizabeth F. Loftus, Ph.D.
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.