Professor Yarik Kryvoi
British Institute of International and Comparative Law
Professor Yarik Kryvoi is the Senior Research Fellow in International Economic Law and Director of the Investment Treaty Forum. Prof Kryvoi's expertise is primarily in the areas of international dispute resolution, including investor-state arbitration and international commercial arbitration, international administrative law and international public law. He also often acts as an expert on Russian law in arbitration and Litigation.
In addition to his role at the BIICL, he is also a co-founder of Arbitration Lab and the founding editor of the CIS Arbitration Forum. He has several years of experience practicing international dispute resolution with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London, Morgan Lewis & Bockius in Washington, DC and Baker & McKenzie in Saint Petersburg.
He has advised governments, international organisations and major international corporations on issues of international commercial law and dispute resolution and worked on cases decided under ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA and SCC rules.
Professor Kryvoi is listed/included as arbitrator/neutral by London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), International Chamber of Commerce (UK National Committee), Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC), Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA), Vienna International Arbitration Centre (VIAC), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and other institutions.
He holds law degrees from UCL, Harvard, Moscow, Nottingham, Utrecht and St Petersburg. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York, Russia and Belarus.