SPEAKERS/PRESENTERS

	Dick Appuhn is a consulting engineer based in Rome Italy serving mainly the European design and construction communities. His professional experience covers engineering design and construction management where he has been active since the 1960’s starting in the United States and moving to the international market place in 1970. His affiliations extend to the Society of Construction Law and the DRB Foundation where he served as President of the Executive and Region 2 Boards of Directors and as a member of the International Committee for Training. Dick is a recipient of the Al Mathews Award for Dispute Board Excellence, the DRBF's top honor. He is a member of the Contracts Committee for the European International Contractors Association. Dick is an active arbitrator and adjudicator in Europe, Africa and the Far East. He was appointed to the Standing Committee for ADR of the International Chamber of Commerce Court of Arbitration. Dick is an affiliate member of FIDIC and is an accredited trainer and is registered on the President’s List of Approved Adjudicators. He also serves the Task Groups for the drafting of General Conditions of Subcontract to be used with the FIDIC Standard Conditions for Construction and Design-Build Contracts. He graduated with BS and MS Degrees in Civil Engineering and Engineering Geology from the University of California at Berkeley. He was admitted as a Registered Civil Engineer, Geologist and Engineering Geologist in California, USA.
	Murray Armes is the founder of Sense Studio, a leading firm of architects, specialising in global dispute avoidance and resolution for construction projects. Murray has over 35 years’ experience in the industry working on many types of construction projects in the UK and around the world. He is a Chartered Arbitrator, Accredited Adjudicator and Mediator, Dispute Board Member and included on the FIDIC President’s List of international adjudicators. He is also a Past President of the Board of Directors for Region 2 of the DRBF. Having been instructed in over 300 cases as expert in the UK, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, he has been appointed as adjudicator in about 60 cases for disputes concerning design methodology, building defects and failures, valuations and payments, water ingress, planning, practical completion, quality issues, variations, design issues, professional negligence, sustainability and delays as well as arbitrator in about 30 cases. He is also appointed to the Dispute Board for the ITER Prototype Fusion Energy Project in France, which is the world’s largest energy project and also to the Adjudication Panel for the new High Luminosity Project at CERN in Switzerland and for a large nuclear project in Scandinavia. Murray is a published author and regular speaker at international conferences on DBs, he is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (since 2007) and is on various panels with the RIBA, CIArb, RICS, FIDIC, ICC, IDRS, and CEDR.
	Sarah Biser is ranked by Chambers USA among New York’s leading construction law attorneys for 12 consecutive years. She represents owners, contractors, developers, architects and engineers, in the United States and abroad, in all stages of the construction process. Sarah is a Partner and Co-Chair of the International Arbitration, Construction and Israel practice groups at Fox Rothschild LLP. She focuses her practice on large capital construction projects, with an emphasis on drafting and negotiating complex contracts, and litigating disputes involving such projects in court and domestic and international arbitration. Sarah is a fellow in the American College of Construction Lawyers, the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and the Construction Lawyers Society of America. Sarah earned her J.D. from New York University School of Law, and holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She is DRBF Co-Representative for Israel.
	Christian Díaz Barcia, Mediator, Adjudicator and Arbitrator, is partner at LPA Legal & Consulting Costa Rica and Director of the International Arbitration Practice. He has an LLM in Corporate Law at the Universidad para la Cooperación Internacional (UCI) Costa Rica, a Postgraduate Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration at Queen Mary London University, and is alumni of the ICC Latin America Arbitration Academy. Christian has training in FIDIC Contract Models and Dispute Boards. For 10 years was Arbitral Secretary at the Dispute Resolution Centre at the Costa Rica Chamber of Engineers and Architects. He is a mediator, arbitrator and Dispute Boards member. In Costa Rica, he is arbitrator at CICA, CCA, CRC-CFIA y CNDR-FEDEFUTBOL, in CARC-PUCP (Perú), CESCON (Panamá) and CeCAP (Panamá). He is a Dispute Board member at CMA (El Salvador); of counsel consultant at IDB Costa Rica; and Country Representative for Costa Rica of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation. Christian also serves as the President of the Board of Directors of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Derecho de Construcción, ALDEC.
	Giovanni Di Folco is the President, co-owner and Senior Partner of Techno Engineering & Associates Group, an international techno-legal Consulting Engineering Firm specializing in Integrated Contract Management, Claims and Dispute Avoidance & Resolution internationally, with experience in representing clients in international Adjudication, Arbitration and Litigation. He is a Civil Engineer, Arbitrator, Adjudicator, Expert Witness in Delay and Quantum and a legal arbitration practitioner with more than 30 years’ experience of managing multi-disciplinary civil engineering projects around the world. Mr Di Folco is a past Director and the current President-Elect of the DRBF Region 2 Board of Directors and is listed on the prestigious FIDIC President List of Certified Adjudicators. He is also a FIDIC Accredited Trainer, a FIDIC Certified Adjudicator and an Expert in project & contract management, contract administration, claims preparation and defense, delay analysis and quantum ascertainment. He has gained extensive experience in both international arbitration and adjudication work whilst acting as Arbitrator, Adjudicator, DB, DAB, DAAB and Counsel for a wide variety of clients. In particular, he has represented international clients and been involved in more than one hundred thirty international dispute adjudication procedures and in more than 60 international arbitrations conducted under the ICC and UNCITRAL Rules relating to disputes under the FIDIC Red, Yellow, Pink and Silver Books conditions of contract. Mr Di Folco lectures at various universities, is a Visiting Professor at the Politecnico of Milano University and is a regular guest speaker at several international conferences, seminars and workshops. He is the Vice President of the Romanian Association of Consulting Engineers (ARIC) and a Director of the Italian Chamber of Commerce for Romania. He has authored and published, books and many papers and articles over the years regarding civil engineering, Dispute Boards, adjudication, arbitration, procurement, claims and contract management matters.
	Graham Easton is both a civil engineer and a lawyer. He is based in Sydney, Australia and works as an independent Arbitrator, Mediator and Dispute Board Member. Formal qualifications include: B.Sc. (Computer Science), University of Sydney, 1967; B.E. (Hons.) (Civil Engineering), University of Sydney, 1969; M.Eng. Sc., University of Birmingham, U.K., 1972; LL.B., University of New South Wales, 1988. He is a Barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales; a Grade 1 Arbitrator and Accredited Mediator, Resolution Institute, Australia; a Member of the London Court of International Arbitration; an Accredited Arbitrator, Singapore International Arbitration Centre. Mr. Easton has lectured extensively on the contractual and legal aspects of engineering and related technical areas, both in Australia and overseas, including a seven-year period teaching Construction Management at the University of New South Wales. He was the joint author of a standard textbook “Civil Engineering Construction” published by McGraw Hill in Australia. For more than 30 years, Mr. Easton has acted as an arbitrator / court referee / mediator in over 250 disputes throughout Australia and overseas. He has been a member of many Dispute Boards on major projects and has been appointed to several international arbitration tribunals in Europe, Asia and the Pacific. Mr. Easton is a Past-President of the DRBF Executive Board of Directors and is a recipient of the Al Mathews Award for Dispute Board Excellence, the DRBF's top honor. He is the Lead Editor for the DRBF Manual – Guide to Practices and Procedures, published in 2019.
	Mark Entwistle, B.Tech., LLB (Hons), FRICS, FCIArb., FDBF, Dip I C Arb, Barrister is a dual qualified, lawyer, arbitrator, adjudicator, Dispute Board practitioner and mediator. His tribunal work extends back to 1987, having delivered over 350 awards and decisions (in arbitration, adjudication and DBs), on projects and disputes ranging in value up to multi-millions of pounds/dollars/euros. He has acted in over 750 cases in the fields of civil engineering, property, and building construction, and has delivered over 850 papers and lectures. Mark’s Dispute Board and tribunal work has included projects in Lebanon, Kuwait, Qatar, Palestine, Tanzania, Japan, Ethiopia, France, Romania, Gibraltar, Italy, Cyprus, Ireland, Oman, USA, St Lucia, Mustique, Grand Cayman, St Kitts, Ghana, Saudi Arabia, Philippines and Bangladesh, on commercial and public buildings, highways, bridges, tunnels, pipelines, power generation, sewage and water treatment works, petrochemical and gas production plants, railways, ports, airports, semiconductor, manufacturing and waste treatment plants. He is a former member of the DRBF Region 2 Board of Directors.
	Simon Fegen is based near Bath, United Kingdom, and specialises in the dispute avoidance and dispute resolution arena in the construction industry. He is a Professional Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a Fellow of the Association of Arbitrators (Southern Africa) and a CEDR Accredited Mediator. His professional experience spans over 30 years and a variety of projects, including energy, water treatment plants and pipelines, highways, OPRC and airport terminal buildings, in various locations in Africa, Asia and Europe. Simon is a strong proponent of dispute avoidance through sound contract administration and supports the use of Dispute Boards; he currently serves on 2 standing dispute boards in Africa. Simon is involved with various training programmes on dispute avoidance and contract administration; and is currently the Director of Training for the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (DRBF) Region 2.
	Geir Frøholm is general counsel by one of the largest Norwegian general contractors and real estate developers. He was a partner by Schjødt for almost twenty years developing and heading their construction, infrastructure and PPP department later head in SANDS construction, infrastructure and PPP department. Prior to his law practice Geir has been deputy judge, corporate and later general counsel by Skanska Norge AS. He holds particular expertise in construction contracts, PPP contracts and agreement with public authorities within the building and planning sector. He provides drafting, continuous advice and negotiation support representing mainly domestic and international contractors, advisors, and investors in PPP road projects. In addition to being a law graduate from the University of Oslo Geir has attended post-graduation education in US-law, business/management and mediation/arbitration. He was Co-chair of the Project Establishment Sub-committee, International Construction Project committee, International Bar Association 2008-2012, Chair of The Norwegian Bar Association Committee for mediation 2013-21, Board member of Forum for zoning and building regulation law 2006-2011, Chair Forum for zoning and building regulation law 2012-2014 and Member of Committee for building and regulation law, The post graduate education for lawyers 2006 – 2016. Geir has written a number of articles within construction and real estate/property. He lectures within construction (Included PPP), planning and building law and cooperation agreements (Joint Ventures).
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	Jeremy Glover is a partner at Fenwick Elliott LLP , the UK’s largest construction law firm and is listed as a leader in his field in Who’s Who Legal: Construction 2020. An accredited adjudicator and member of the CIArb Adjudication Sub-Committee, he advises on all aspects of projects from initial procurement and strategic project advice to dispute avoidance and resolution. Jeremy is the co-author of Understanding the FIDIC Red and Yellow Book: A Clause by Clause Commentary, the third edition of which was published in 2018, and lead editor of Building Contract Disputes: Practice and Precedents. Jeremy is a member of the Board of Examiners on the Construction Law MSc programme at King’s College, and also teaches on the MSc Building Information Modelling Management Programme at Middlesex University. He serves as the DRBF President for Region 2.
	Steve Goldstein was admitted as a Barrister in 1993 and specialises in building and construction matters. Steve is heavily involved in all forms of alternative dispute resolution including as arbitrator, mediator, facilitator, expert determiner and Dispute Avoidance Board member. Steve has been appointed as a Dispute Board Member on more than 15 occasions. He has also acted as a Supreme Court Referee, District Court referee and Local Court arbitrator. Steve is President-Elect of the DRBF and was formerly President of Region 3. Steve is a fellow of the Resolution Institute and held the position of NSW Chapter Chair for 4 years. Steve holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and is a Chartered Professional Engineer and Member of Engineers Australia. Steve practised as a civil engineer in the construction industry for 17 years prior to being called to the Bar.
	Nicholas Gould, BSc (Hons), LL.M., FRICS, FCIArb, MCIOB, is President of the Executive Board of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation and a partner in the specialist construction, engineering and energy lawyers Fenwick Elliott LLP, where he conducts a mix of international dispute resolution and non-contentious work. He is a solicitor-advocate, chartered surveyor, accredited adjudicator and CEDR Chambers lead mediator. He acts for contractors, employers and governments in the building, construction, engineering, infrastructure, transport, energy, oil and gas, and process engineering sectors. Dispute resolution experience spans litigation, arbitration (domestic and international), adjudication, DAB/DRB, mediation, early neutral evaluation and expert determination. He regularly acts as lead mediator in multi-party multi- million disputes. Nicholas is a certified adjudicator and sits on international dispute boards and as arbitrator. Chamber & Partners 2011 notes Nicholas for his “ability to pre-empt potential problems and provide advice in a clear manner that maintains the individual needs of clients”. Legal 500, 2011 edition list Nicholas as a leading figure for Construction and Mediation who is “extremely knowledgeable and listens carefully to his clients”. The IBA’s 2008 and 2013 editions of International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers Today listed Nicholas as one of the “ten most highly regarded individuals internationally for construction law” and the IBA’s Who’s Who Legal 2015 listed Nicholas in the top five in Europe.
	Jaime Gray is a founding partner of the Peruvian law firm Navarro Sologuren, Paredes, Gray Abogados (aka NPG Abogados). He is a lawyer specialised in engineering and construction law, and DAB member and arbitrator in both private and public major infrastructure projects. He lectures construction law at Universidad del Pacifico and Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. Currently, Gray is the Co-Vice Chair of the Project Establishment Sub Committee of the International Construction Projects Committee (ICP) of the International Bar Association (IBA). He is a fellow of the International Academy of Construction Lawyers and is the DRBF Representative for Peru. He was the first President of the Peruvian Society of Construction Law (sponsored by the SCL UK).
	Leo Grutters, BSc (civil) MBA DipArb FCIArb FDBF, is a Civil Engineer and a Dispute Resolution Expert with over 30 years of professional experience. He holds an MBA and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. As a Member of FIDIC's President's List of Approved Dispute Adjudicators he has been involved as an independent neutral expert in many large prestigious international engineering projects involving such wide-ranging sectors as roads, power generation & distribution, off-shore, marine, renewable energies, etc. He is a forensic analyst focused on the logical and fair resolution to contractual disputes. Due to his extensive participation in international contractual dispute resolution procedures such as Adjudication, Dispute Boards and Arbitration, he is a project-focused expert who understands the interaction between complex engineering methodologies and the unavoidable legal and commercial implications when seen in a contractual environment. He also regularly lectures on dispute resolution methodologies, proactive contract administration systems & procedures and he is a regular speaker at related international events. He routinely conducts training and coaching events on the entire FIDIC Rainbow Suite of Contracts, as well as other construction management related topics. He is immediate Past President of the DRBF Region 2.
	Volker Jurowich is a civil engineer, Technical University, Aachen, Germany. He worked for a major German international contractor for 35 years, the last 15 as an Executive Director. His responsibilities were part of the local business and all of the international business outside of the European Union. Projects under his direct responsibility include major infrastructure works, hydroelectric projects, harbour construction, drill and blast as well as TBM tunneling and building works. He has experience in dispute resolution by negotiation, by mediation, by Dispute Boards and by arbitration. Mr. Jurowich is now working as a contract consultant and in dispute resolution. He was member of the Executive Board of Directors of the DRBF from October 2006 to May 2010, President of DRBF Region 2 from October 2008 to May 2010 and President of the Executive Board from Oct. 2011 to Oct. 2012. He holds the diploma in International Commercial Arbitration from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. He served on the ICC task force for Dispute Boards. Presently Mr. Jurowich serves as chair and as member on Dispute Boards in the Far East, in Central Asia, in Africa and in Europe. He is lecturer at the University of Stuttgart on international construction. Mr. Jurowich is listed on the FIDIC President’s List of Approved Adjudicators. He is Chairman of the Assessment Panel for the German National List of FIDIC Adjudicators. Volker is a recipient of the Al Mathews Award for Dispute Board Excellence, the DRBF's top honor.
	Ekrem Kaya is a widely experienced civil engineer with over 20 years of construction industry experience. He has acted as expert witness in matters of delay and quantum. He has experience in complex international construction disputes, including two major investment treaty (ICSID) arbitrations, and has been appointed as Dispute Adjudication Board (DAB) chair. He has worked on projects in Turkey and across Asia, Europe and the Middle East including high-profile oil and gas, civil engineering, building and transportation projects. Ekrem is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Chamber of Civil Engineers in Istanbul, a practising member of the Academy of Experts and is dual-qualified with an LLM in construction law and arbitration.
	Husni Madi is a FIDIC International Certified Trainer (FCT), as well as Founder and CEO of Shura Construction Management, a consultancy firm providing contract solutions for the construction industry. Husni is a Civil Engineer with over 23 years of experience in large-scale construction projects in the Middle East; initially with multinational contractors, then with international construction management firms. Experience covers various sectors: power plants, wastewater treatment plants, potable water reservoirs, infrastructure, marine ports, highways, and multi-use buildings. Has operated in several countries including Jordan, KSA, UAE, Qatar, Lebanon, Oman, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Cyprus and Greece. He is a Delay Analysis specialist, as he is an accredited Professional in Scheduling (PMI-SP) and Project Management (PMP) by the Project Management Institute (PMI), in addition to being a FIDIC Affiliate Member. He is a member of several multi-million USD international and domestic arbitration tribunals (institutional and ad hoc) being an FCIArb, and DABs being a FIDIC Certified Adjudicator (FCA) listed on FIDIC President’s List of Approved Dispute Adjudicators. Presently, he is serving as Chairman of FIDIC Task Groups 15 & 15B in charge of establishing “FIDIC’s Golden Principles”, and a Friendly Reviewer of the Red, Yellow, Silver 2017 2^nd Editions, and the Emerald Book. He is also the Principal Translator of the official translation of FIDIC 2017 Suite into Arabic. Importantly, Husni is Vice Chair of the influential FIDIC Contracts Committee, and winner of FIDIC’s Trainer(s) or Adjudicator(s) of the Year Award. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb).
	Fernando Marcondes has been a lawyer specialized in Construction and Infrastructure Law for more than 30 years. He is a partner of MAMG ADVOGADOS in São Paulo, Brazil. He has been acting as arbitrator since 2001 and as a member of Dispute Boards since 2009. He is the founder and former president of the Brazilian Institute of Construction Law; president of the Brazilian chapter of the Spanish Arbitration Club; Dispute Resolution Board Foundation Representative for Brazil; member of ALDEC and the Society of Construction Law. Author, co-author and coordinator of books on the topics of construction and dispute resolution. Recognized by the main international rankings, in the areas of Construction and Arbitration.
	Mark M. Moseley is the Principal of Moseley Infrastructure Advisory Services (MMM Infra), a global individual consulting firm advising on infrastructure projects and enabling environments, for multilateral development banks, governments and private sector entities. Mark has over 40 years of international infrastructure experience, having held the following positions as Chief Operating Officer of the Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub), an initiative of the G20; Lead Counsel, Infrastructure Practice Group, The World Bank; Partner and Practice Group Manager for the Global Energy, Projects and Construction Group at the international law firm CMS Cameron McKenna; and Lecturer on Legal Issues for Public-Private Partnership Infrastructure Transactions at the Harvard Kennedy School.
	Matthias Neuenschwander is the Principal of Neuenschwander Consulting Engineers, Ltd. in Switzerland. A M.Sc. in Civil Engineering from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Matthias is a certified commercial mediator and a member of the DRBF, and serves on the steering committees of the Swiss International Experts and of the FIDIC-ITA Emerald Book. He has over 35 years worldwide experience as a contractor, designer, supervisor, engineer, independent expert advisor, DRB member and arbitrator. For fifteen years, Matthias participated in the construction of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in leading positions, and was a Managing Director with Lombardi Consulting Engineers before founding his own firm, specialising in advisory on procurement, contracting and dispute avoidance and resolution for large infrastructure projects. He chaired the FIDIC-ITA joint task group that drafted the Emerald Book and is the animateur of the ITA Working Group 3 “Contractual Practices”. His current main assignments include advisory to Employers of large transportation and hydropower infrastructure projects, and to the World Bank Group, alternative dispute resolution and arbitration in underground and other civil works, as well as independent expert advice in subsurface construction. For more information please consult www.neu-ce.ch.
	Lindy Patterson QC is a Barrister with 39 Essex Chamber, London. She specialises in arbitration and adjudication, both internationally and within the UK. She is recognised as a leading construction and energy disputes specialist. She has extensive experience as counsel for clients in these sectors. As senior partner in a major commercial law firm before joining 39 Essex Chambers, she represented clients in large scale complex disputes in major infrastructure, energy and oil, and gas projects. She is Past President of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation’s Region 2 Board or Directors, and served on the DRBF Executive Board of Directors in 2018-19. She is on the FIDIC President’s List of International Adjudicators; and serves on the following panels: TeCSA Adjudicators; Transport for London Conflict Avoidance Panel and RICS (Scotland).
	Marcela Radovic is an attorney with more than 18 years of experience in contractual and claim management in construction industry in Chile and other countries in Latin America, focusing mainly in the mining, energy, retail and public infrastructure sectors. She is Founder and Director of Chilean Society of Construction Law and has earned a master’s degree in Regulation at London School of Economics University. Marcela is also a Professional Coach and Candidate for a Master's Degree in Coaching and Leadership from Barcelona University. Concerning her teaching experience, Marcela is Professor of “Magister de la Construcción” of the Engineer Faculty of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Professor of Universidad de Los Andes in Construction Law and Professor of Universidad de Talca in Construction Law. She has been a member of Dispute Resolution Board Foundation since 2009 and serves as the DRBF's Representative for Chile. She has also been a member of International Bar Association since 2014.
	Beatriz Vidigal Xavier da Silveira Rosa is a Founding Partner of Tarobá Engenharia e Negócios Ltda in Brazil. She has a degree in Mechanical Production Engineering from UNIP-Institute of Engineering Education of São Paulo, a master's degree in Technologies and Management of Cogeneration and Distributed Generation from the Polytechnic School of São Paulo-USP and a specialization in Defense Engineering from IME- Institute of Military Engineering. She has been acting as a member of Dispute Boards in Brazil and Peru, as well as an arbitrator, mediator and expert engineer in judicial and arbitration proceedings. She currently serves as Treasurer of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation Region 4 Board or Directors. She was Director of the Chamber of Mediation and Arbitration of the Institute of Engineering and the Mediation Center of the Civil Construction Union of the State of São Paulo. In Brazil, it is on the list of arbitrators and mediators of the CMA-IE, Chamber of Mediation and Arbitration of IBDE-Brazilian Institute of Energy Law Studies, CAMES, CAE, Chambers of CIESP/FIESP and FIEP and IMAB. It is on the list of mediators of CAMARB, CAM-CCBC and CMS. In the USA, she is on the Neutral Panel of the CPR- The International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution. She was director of CONIMA- National Council of Mediation and Arbitration Institutions and is director of IBDiC-Brazilian Institute of Construction Law.
	Ann Russo is Executive Director of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation, the non-profit association dedicated to the use of Dispute Review Boards worldwide. She is co-editor of the "Dispute Board Manual: A Guide to Best Practices and Procedures." Prior to joining the DRBF, she served as Public Relations Manager for J.A. Jones, Inc., an international construction and engineering firm based in Charlotte, NC, USA. She received the DRBF's President’s Distinguished Service Award in 2005.
	Evgeny Smirnov is an associate director, policy advisor, working at the EBRD Procurement Policy and Advisory Department. He coordinates the policy dialogue with the governments of the Bank's countries of operation in respect of public procurement. He also provides policy and specific project implementation and risk management advice to the Bank's operational teams and clients across all sectors and countries of the Bank’s operations. He is a member of EBRD-UNICTRAL Taskforce, OECD/DAC MAPS Working group as well as OECD/ACN monitoring teams for selected countries. He was a reviewer of the Second Edition of FIDIC standard forms of contract. Evgeny reads lectures on contract management, procurement and construction law at Rome University Tor Vergata, University of Stuttgart and European Academy for Taxes, Economic and Law in Berlin. After joining the Bank in 2000, for ten years he worked at the Infrastructure Business Group on numerous projects in many of the Bank's countries of operation, being responsible for developing project delivery strategies, advising and assisting clients during projects implementation on the associated risk management issues. Prior to joining EBRD, Evgeny was a procurement consultant on a number of World Bank funded projects in Russia in different sectors, including transport, environmental protection, agriculture and health sector, working closely with different Federal Ministries and Agencies of the Russian Federation. Before that, since 1993 for four years Evgeny worked at the Ministry of Foreign Economic Affairs of Russia on large construction and irrigation projects in the Middle East and Africa. He possesses a Master Degree (with honors) in water sector management and environmental engineering by Moscow State University of Environmental Engineering. He also holds a diploma in government procurement management by National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow.
	Björn Stefánsson, Senior Consultant is a Civil Engineer specialising in structural engineering and hydraulics. He worked over 40 years in the industry, notably serving as Head of Power Projects Department at Landsvirkjun, the National Power Company of Iceland, from 2000-2009 and then as Chief Engineer at Landsvirkjun Power, working on renewable energy projects overseas from 2009-2018. Since 2014, he has served as Chair of a DRB on four road tunnel projects in Iceland and two subsea road tunnels in the Faroe Islands. In addition, he has been appointed twice by Icelandic courts as arbitrator on construction disputes, and twice contracted as independent arbitrator on construction disputes.
	Paul Taggart is a Past President of the DRBF Executive Board of Directors. He has some 40 years experience in contract management and disputes settlement in construction. He is a FIDIC Presidents List of Approved Adjudicators member. Paul has acted as DB member, a disputes settlement manager, a Contractual Manager, and as advisor for a number of reputable major international companies effectively managing complex contract cases on a broad range major infrastructure and building works. In this regard he has been actively involved in the submission and successful settlement of some US$ 4.7 billion worth of disputes to Dispute Adjudication and Recommendation Boards globally per FIDIC, ad hoc and ICC DB rules. His project experience includes Mosul Dam (Iraq), Second Bosphoros Bridge (Turkey), The Channel Tunnel (UK - France), The Panama Canal expansion, Copenhagen, Qatar and Riyadh Metros, Xiaolangdi MPD China, and Bujagali HPP the first PPP hydro project in Africa. Mr. Taggart holds a BSc, MRICS, FCIArb and Post Graduate Diplomas in International Commercial Arbitration (QMUL) and Business Administration (SGBS). He a sustaining member of the DRBF.
	Giorgiana Tecuci is an international lawyer with over 20 years' experience in construction law and procurement. She is actively involved in FIDIC contracts, with particular emphasis on dispute resolution in both the public and private sectors. As an adjudicator, arbitrator and trainer, Giorgiana regularly contributes to the organization and running of both FIDIC related activities and those of DRBF, where she is a board member for Region 2, representing Europe, and the DRBF Representative for Romania.
	Micha Tollman head’s Pear Cohen’s Public Procurement, Project Finance and Infrastructure Practice Groups, and is a leading projects lawyer admitted and experience in both Israel and Australia. Mr. Tollman practices in the areas of construction and infrastructure with an emphasis on Defense, Transportation, and Energy PPPs. His practice also covers dispute resolution where he advises clients on Delay, Disruption & Prolongation claims. Mr. Tollman is a founding member of the Israel Construction Law Society and is the DRBF's Co-Country Representative for Israel. Mr. Tollman holds a LLM from Bar Ilan University in Alternative Dispute Resolution, and lectures at professional infrastructure panels. Mr. Tollman is working on introducing DRBs to Israel’s booming energy, infrastructure and construction industry and is hoping to apply DRBs in the Tel Aviv Metro project.
	Marcello Viglino is an engineer who has been involved in construction contracts overseas since 1998, working on large civil engineering projects in several countries around the world. His professional activity is currently concerned with the management of international construction contracts and the settlement of any associated dispute through negotiation, Dispute Board, and Arbitration. He studied civil engineering both in Italy and the UK where he also obtained an MSc in Construction Law & Dispute Resolution from the King’s College London. He is a visiting lecturer in Contract Management at the Milan Polytechnic, a chartered member of the Institution of Engineers in Italy, a member of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation and a board member of the Italian Society of Construction Law.