Biography: Arbitration

Jean Kalicki is a partner at Arnold & Porter LLP, specialising in international arbitration as both counsel and arbitrator. As arbitrator she has served as chair, sole and co-arbitrator in both investment and commercial disputes. As counsel, she specialises in investment treaty disputes and has represented numerous states and investors at ICSID and under UNCITRAL, in cases arising under BITs, NAFTA, and the Energy Charter Treaty. In commercial arbitration, Ms Kalicki has represented companies on five continents as well as the United Nations in disputes before the ICC, the AAA/ICDR and ad hoc tribunals.

Selected as one of the 'Best Lawyers in America' for international arbitration (2010-2011) and one of Global Arbitration Review's top 30 women in arbitration worldwide (2007), Ms Kalicki has been described by clients as 'simply superb' (The Legal 500, 2008), and by peers as 'a thorough, meticulous and highly motivated arbitrator' (Chambers USA, 2011) as well as 'an incredible investigator and researcher who is gifted at identifying key issues' and 'knows how to use legal analysis to structure the best argument possible' (Chambers USA, 2008).

Ms Kalicki is an Adjunct Professor at both Georgetown University Law Center and American University Washington College of Law. She serves on the Board of Directors of the AAA, the Commission on Arbitration of the ICC, the Executive Committee of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, and as a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. For many years Ms Kalicki has been Co-Chair of the DC Bar's International Dispute Resolution Committee and Chair of the US Council for International Business' Arbitration Subcommittee for Washington, DC.