Nicola Peart, an associate in the Washington, DC office of Three Crowns, will be a featured speaker on an ICCA–ICSID webinar on the Report of the Cross-Institutional Task Force on Gender Diversity in Arbitral Appointments and Proceedings. The event will take place on Thursday, 3 September from 9:00 – 10:15 am EDT (GMT -4).
The panellists will:
- provide an overview of the Report and the Task Force’s main findings;
- expand upon the Report’s identification of trends in the data;
- address pipeline issues that create barriers to greater gender diversity in arbitral appointments; and
- discuss arbitral appointments from the perspectives of three key stakeholders: parties, co-arbitrators and arbitral institutions.
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ABOUT Nicola Peart
Peart, an English-qualified barrister, represents States and private parties before a variety of international courts and tribunals. She has acted as counsel in commercial, investment, and ad hoc arbitrations, and has appeared as counsel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). She also advises and represents parties in arbitration-related court matters and has appeared before the UK Supreme Court.
Peart is the Legal Secretary to the Ethics Commission of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and has an active pro bono practice advising and representing developing countries and NGOs.