Extract from 2008 International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration Lawyers

Stanimir A Alexandrov focuses his practice in the areas of international dispute resolution, including investor-state arbitration and international commercial arbitration, and resolution of trade disputes before the World Trade Organization (WTO).

He has represented private parties and governments in arbitration before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), as well as in ICC, UNCITRAL, and AAA international arbitration. He has also represented governments in WTO disputes. Mr Alexandrov's current and recent international arbitration cases include representations of global investors such as Bayindir Holdings, Vivendi, Tate & Lyle, Fireman's Fund Insurance Co, GE and Bechtel, Impregilo SpA, and Cargil, and of sovereigns including Costa Rica, Turkey and Peru.

Mr Alexandrov has been appointed to the ICSID's panel of arbitrators and panel of conciliators and serves as an arbitrator in a number of cases under the arbitration rules of ICSID, the London Court of International Arbitration and UNCITRAL. He has appeared as an expert witness in international arbitration on investment treaty interpretation.

Before engaging in private practice, Mr Alexandrov was vice-minister of foreign affairs of Bulgaria. Prior to that, he served as deputy chief of mission of the Embassy of Bulgaria in Washington, DC, where he negotiated trade and investment agreements and worked closely with the World Bank and the IMF on technical assistance projects.

Mr Alexandrov is a professor at The George Washington University Law School, where he teaches courses on international law, and dispute settlement. Mr Alexandrov's publications have been cited by parties to disputes before the International Court of Justice and by Judges of the Court.

His books include: Self-Defense Against the Use of Force in International Law, Kluwer, 1996; Reservations in Unilateral Declarations Accepting the Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, Martinus Nijhoff, 1995; and International Human Rights in a Nutshell, Sofia, 1997, with Judge Thomas Buergenthal (in Bulgarian). His articles include: 'Vivendi (Compañia de Aguas del Aconquija) v Argentina Case', Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (2008); 'Canada - Measures Affecting the Export of Civilian Aircraft' and 'Brazil - Export Financing Programme for Aircraft' in The Case-Law of the WTO (Brigitte Stern and Hèléne Ruiz Fabri, Eds) 2007; 'The Compulsory Jurisdiction of the international Court of Justice: How Compulsory is it?' 5(1) Chinese Journal of International Law 29 (2006); 'The 'Baby Boom' of Treaty-Based Arbitrations and the Jurisdiction of ICSID Tribunals: Shareholders as 'investors' under Investment Treaties,' 6(3) The Journal of World Investment & Trade 387 (2005); 'The 'Baby Boom' of Treaty-Based Arbitrations and the Jurisdiction of ICSID Tribunals: Shareholders as 'Investors' and Jurisdiction Ratione Temporis,' 4 The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 19 (2005); 'Breaches of Contract and Breaches of Treaty: The Jurisdiction of Treaty-Based Arbitration Tribunals to Decide Breach of Contract Claims in SGS v Pakistan and SGS v Philippines,' 5(4) Journal of World Investment and Trade 555 (2004); 'The Vivendi Annulment Decision and the Lessons for Future ICSID Arbitrations - The Applicants' Perspective,' in Annulment of ICSID Awards (Gaillard and Banifatemi, Eds) 2004; 'Inducing Compliance in WTO Dispute Settlement,' in The Political Economy of International Trade: Essays in Honor of Robert E. Hudec (Kennedy and Southwick, Eds), Cambridge University Press 2002, with David Palmeter; and 'Accepting the Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice with Reservations: An Overview of Practice with a Focus on Recent Trends and Cases,' 14 Leiden Journal of International Law 89, 2001; 'Paving the Way for Bulgaria's Accession to the European Union,' 21 Fordham International Law Journal 587, 1998; 'Further European Integration is Inevitable,' in European Integration and American Interests: What the New Europe Really Means For the United States (Jeffrey Gedmin, ed) 1997; 'Non-Appearance before the International Court of Justice,' 33 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 41, 1995; 'Delimitation of the Continental Shelf in an Enclosed Sea,' Hague Yearbook of International Law 3, 1992.

Mr Alexandrov, a Bulgarian national, holds both Russian and US law degrees and is well versed in the economic and legal issues of Russia and the countries of Eastern Europe. In addition to English and Bulgarian, he is fluent in French, Russian and Spanish.