David J. Branson – Director of the International Law Institute’s ADR Center. He specializes in arbitration work and now serves as an arbitrator. He has served as an arbitrator and participated in proceedings as counsel in arbitrations conducted under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce, the London Court of International Arbitration, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, UNCITRAL and the American Arbitration Association.

Mr. Branson has also been engaged in litigation practice for 33 years. He has appeared before the Supreme Court of the United States, several Courts of Appeal and District Courts.

Mr. Branson served as Vice Chairman of the American Bar Association, Section on International Law, Committee on International Arbitration as well as Vice Chairman of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association. He has taught International Arbitration at the International Law Institute in Washington, DC since 1993 and has conducted the annual program in International Commercial Arbitration at the International Law Institute Centre in Kampala, Uganda since 2007. Mr. Branson was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center for five years. He has also taught a course on International Arbitration at Palacky University in the Czech Republic.

He has an LL.M. from St. Johns College, Cambridge University and a J.D. from Georgetown University.

Jane Willems – As a lawyer in private practice and an arbitrator, Jane Willems has regularly lectured on International Commercial Arbitration in International Law Institute courses in Washington DC. She has developed, and since 2009 she has co-conducted with David J. Branson the new annual program of International Commercial Arbitration at the International Law Institute.

In a career in the private practice of law, Ms. Willems has participated in international arbitrations and other forms of ADR and in international contractual and international development projects. She served as counsel, arbitrator, and secretary to arbitral tribunals in numerous arbitration proceedings (ICC, LCIA and ad-hoc) and as counsel before French courts in arbitration related matters. She has been admitted to practice to both the Paris Bar and the Bar of the State of California (USA). Jane Willems has been teaching International Contracts and Arbitration at the University of Angers, France; she holds a Master’s degree in International Business Law and a Master’s degree in Business Law from the University of Paris I Sorbonne.