Albert Jan van den Berg
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Albert Jan van den Berg is a Professor at Law and the Arbitration Chair at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the President of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute and is a visiting Professor at the University of Miami School of Law
University of Miami School of Law
The University of Miami School of Law, founded in 1926, is the law school of the University of Miami, located in Coral Gables, Florida, in the United States. The school graduated its first class of 13 students in 1929.- Academics :...

 Center for International Arbitration. The world-renowned arbitrator holds a Doctor of Laws from Erasmus University Rotterdam; a Docteur en droit from the University of Aix-en-Provence; a Master of Comparative Jurisprudence from New York University
New York University
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’s Institute on Foreign Law; and a Master of Laws from the University of Amsterdam.

Professor Van den Berg is a founding partner of Hanotiau & van den Berg in Brussels
Brussels
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. He was previously a partner at the law firm
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s of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
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 and Stibbe Simont Monahan Duhot, both in Amsterdam
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, as well as Van Doorne & Sjollema Advocaten in The Netherlands
Netherlands
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. He also worked as Secretary-General of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute and at the department of international commercial arbitration
Arbitration
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 of TCM Asser Institute. Additionally, Professor Van den Berg is former Vice-President of the London Court of International Arbitration
London Court of International Arbitration
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 and is a member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration, the Commission on International Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce
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, LCIA Company, and the Dubai International Arbitration Centre.

Fluent in Dutch
Dutch language
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, English
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, and French
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, Professor Van den Berg has authored and edited several publications on various topics of international arbitration
International arbitration
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. He currently serves as the General Editor of Yearbook Commercial Arbitration, a leading international commercial arbitration publication, and is a member of the editorial board
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s of London
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’s Global Counsel and Global Arbitration Review, and Rotterdam
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’s Tijdschrift voor Arbitrage. He has been honored widely for his work over the years, and was named the world’s leading commercial arbitrator by The International Who's Who
International Who's Who
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of Business Lawyers in 2006.

Albert Jan van den Berg recently started the website Newyorkconvention.org with relevant information on the matter.

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