Biography

Stavros Brekoulakis is a Professor of International Arbitration at Queen Mary University of London; from 2024, Brekoulakis will be the Chair of International Arbitration at National University of Singapore. Brekoulakis also practices as an arbitrator at a leading commercial Chambers 3 Verulam Buildings (Gray’s Inn) having been appointed as arbitrator in more than 80 commercial and investment arbitrations. Stavros has been invited to give the Summer Course on Private International Law at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2026. He is the author of eight monographs, books and edited volumes and more than 30 articles in leading peer-reviewed law journals. Stavros has led important policy projects and advised governmental, intergovernmental, and non-governmental organisations, Co-Chair of the International Council of Commercial Arbitration Task Force on Third Party Funding, he co-authored the leading report on Third Party Funding in International Arbitration which has informed the regulatory policy of several international arbitration institutions and national legislation, including as a member of the London Bar Reform Committee, a member of the Steering Committee of the UNCITRAL Academic Forum on Investor-State Dispute Settlement, a member of the Investment Expert Trade Advisory Group of the UK Department for International Trade. He is also holding several public positions including being a member of the Governing body of the International Council of Commercial Arbitration, Court of the LCIA Arbitration and ICC Commission on Arbitration. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute Management; the General Editor of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement; the Co-editor of Kluwer’s International Arbitration Law Library Series; a member of the Editorial Board of the Arbitration International; the International Chamber of Commerce Bulletin on International Arbitration; and the Arab Yearbook of Public & Private International Law.