Victoria has been leading the International and Comparative Law Research Center since 2018. Before that, she took the position of an Expert on Public International Law and Assistant General Director, being a regular member of the Russian delegation to UNCITRAL. Before joining the Center, she worked in Moscow-based international law firms advising clients on international law matters for several years.

Ms. Joubin-Bret is the Secretary of UNCITRAL and the Director of the International Trade Law Division in the Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations, which functions as the substantive secretariat for UNCITRAL. Prior to her appointment in 2017, Anna Joubin-Bret practiced law in Paris, specializing in International Investment Law and Investment Dispute Resolution. She focused on serving as counsel, arbitrator, mediator, and conciliator in international investment disputes. Prior to 2011 and for 15 years, she was the Senior Legal Adviser for the UNCTAD. Ms. Joubin-Bret holds a post-graduate degree (DEA) in Private International Law from the University Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, a Masters Degree in International Economic Law from University of Paris I, and in Political Science from Institut d'Etudes Politiques. She was Legal Counsel in the legal department of the Schneider Group, General Counsel of the KIS Group, and Director-Export of Pomagalski S.A. She was appointed judge at the Commercial Court in Grenoble (France) and was elected Regional Counsellor of the Rhône-Alpes Region in 1998.

Alexey Khersontsev has been the State Secretary — Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, since March 2020. Prior to his appointment, he was the Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation — Head of Federal Accreditation Service (Rosakkreditatsiya). Alexey Khersontsev. In 2011–2016, Alexey Khersontsev took the position of the Director of Department for Economy State Regulation of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. Prior to 2011, he was the Director of Department for Regulatory Impact Assessment of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, and prior to 2010, he was the Head of Expert Legal Group for Property Relations, Vice-President of Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization "Public Reforms Centre." In 2002, Alexey Khersontsev graduated from Ural State Law Academy, Foreign Economic Relations and Law Institute. In 2003–2008, he was a Specialist, Leading Specialist, Chief Specialist, Head of Scientific Research Administration of the Ural State Law Academy. He took the position of a Lector, Senior Lector at Business Law Department of the Ural State Law Academy.

Marina Rozhkova has been elected as an expert at the Russian Academy of Sciences and included in the Expert Council of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Technologies and Communications. She is also a member of the Committee on Legal Issues of the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ, an expert of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), an expert of the Skolkovo Competence Center on the statuary regulation of the digital economy of the national program "Digital Economy," a member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Support of Network Initiatives "Smart Internet Foundation." In 2007–2013, Marina Rozhkova participated in the work of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation on the codification and improvement of civil legislation, the Research Centre of Private Law under the President of the Russian Federation. Since 2004, Marina has been doing expert and research work at the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, being the chief research fellow at the Department of Civil Legislation and Procedure. She is the author of more than 350 published papers. Marina Rozhkova worked at the State Arbitration of the RSFSR in 1990–1992 and at the Supreme Court of Arbitration of the Russian Federation in 1992–2003.

Professor of Civil Law at the University of Vienna since 2008. She is founding member and President of the European Law Institute (ELI), chair of the Academy Council of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Co-Head of the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law, and member of the Managing Board of the Austrian Jurists' Association (ÖJT). She is also a member of the Academia Europea (AE), the International Academy for Comparative Law (IACL) and the American Law Institute (ALI), and serves, amongst other functions, on the Bioethics Committee at the Austrian Federal Chancellery, on the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) and as the European Reporter on the transatlantic project "Principles for a Data Economy." In 2018-2019, she co-chaired the Data Ethics Commission of the German Federal Government. Prior to moving to Vienna, she was a professor in Göttingen (1999–2008) and Greifswald (1998–1999) and was Managing Director of the Sino-German Institute of Legal Studies (2000–2008).

Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell is a member of the EU Expert Group on Liability/Technologies formation and of the Expert Group to the EU Observatory on Platform Economy. Expert at UNIDROIT and UNCITRAL in Working Groups (WG) on Enforcement (Technology), Warehouse Receipts and Digital Economy. Spanish Delegate before UNCITRAL WG VI on Security Interests and WG IV on E-Commerce, and UNIDROIT. Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell is the James J. Coleman Sr. Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Tulane Law School, Visiting Fellow at Harris Manchester College in Oxford University, Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre of European Law and Politics (ZERP) of University of Bremen, Chair of Excellence at Oxford University (Harris Manchester College) and elected member of the European Law Institute (ELI) Council. European Central Bank Legal Research Programme 2018 fellow with a project on Fintech and Stanford Law School TTLF fellow.

Hong Xue is the Director of BNU Institute for Internet Policy & Law (IIPL), Co-Director of UNCITRAL RCAP-BNU Joint Certificate Program on International E-Commerce Law.

Lise Alm is a lawyer and business developer with a background in the tech community. Her role at the SCC includes analysing the future of dispute resolution with special focus on the intersection between law and emerging technologies. This is done with a special eye towards the challenges and opportunities brought on by the increased use of artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology in dispute resolution. At the SCC, she has inter alia brought the online case management platforms SCC Platform and Ad Hoc Platform to market. Her background further includes Vinge law firm, Spotify, Volumental (an omnichannel retail solution) and Prorenata (a digital health care platform).

Igor Furgel is the Head of the Certification Body of Telekom Security accredited to perform conformity assessment and issue of conformity certificates in accordance with eIDAS, ETSI Electronic Signatures and Infrastructure, and Common Criteria. He is the German delegate to the UNCITRAL WG Group IV (E-Commerce), an official expert of the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and E-Business (UN/CEFACT) and a member of various committees. Igor Furgel is a co-author of the draft UN Convention on the Cross-Border Legal Recognition of Identity Management and Trust Services. He has contributed as a co-author to the development of the Common Criteria methodology and provides official training on Common Criteria security evaluation. Igor Furgel is the (co-)author of over 70 publications and multi-author books; most of them can be found by search engines.

André Janssen was a visiting scholar/professor at the Universities of Leuven, Oxford, Turin, Lyon (Catholic University), and at the Chinese University for Political Science and Law in Beijing and at the City University Hong Kong. He taught and presented at international conferences on five continents, is a member of several international research networks and published more than 150 books and articles in the field of Private, European, Comparative and International Sales Law, and Artificial Intelligence and Law. He is the co-chief-editor of the European Review of Private Law (ERPL) and a member of the editorial board of the International Arbitration Law Review (IALR).

Prior to this, Dr. Durovic was an Assistant Professor (2015–2017) at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. He holds a Ph.D. and LL.M. degrees from the European University Institute (EUI), Italy, LL.M. degree from the University of Cambridge, UK, and LL.B. degree from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, where he graduated as the first and the best student of his class. Dr. Durovic was a Post‐Doc Research Associate at the EUI, Italy (2014–2015), Visiting Scholar at Stanford Law School, USA (2011), and at the Max Planck Institute of Private International and Comparative Law, Hamburg, Germany (2010). Dr. Durovic worked for the Legal Service of the European Commission, as well as a consultant for the European Commission, the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ), World Bank, and the United Nations. The work of Dr. Durovic was published in leading law journals (European Review of Private Law, European Review of Contract Law, Journal of Consumer Policy) and by most prominent publishers (Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Hart Publishing). He is a member of the European Law Institute, Society of Legal Scholars, and Society for European Contract Law.

Prior to this, Dr. Durovic was an Assistant Professor (2015–2017) at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. He holds a Ph.D. and LL.M. degrees from the European University Institute (EUI), Italy, LL.M. degree from the University of Cambridge, UK, and LL.B. degree from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, where he graduated as the first and the best student of his class. Dr. Durovic was a Post‐Doc Research Associate at the EUI, Italy (2014–2015), Visiting Scholar at Stanford Law School, USA (2011), and at the Max Planck Institute of Private International and Comparative Law, Hamburg, Germany (2010). Dr. Durovic worked for the Legal Service of the European Commission, as well as a consultant for the European Commission, the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ), World Bank, and the United Nations. The work of Dr. Durovic was published in leading law journals (European Review of Private Law, European Review of Contract Law, Journal of Consumer Policy) and by most prominent publishers (Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Hart Publishing). He is a member of the European Law Institute, Society of Legal Scholars, and Society for European Contract Law.

At Gazprombank (Joint Stock Company) Alexandra heads the legal support for major international and Russian structured, investment and project finance transactions. Prior to joining the bank, she was a partner and an associate at the leading international and Russian law firms and advised clients on a wide range of international finance, capital markets and corporate transactions, as well as on regulatory matters. Alexandra also advised a major international development bank on several financial markets law reform projects in countries of the former Soviet Union and other emerging markets.

In this role he represents global business in the UN General Assembly and other UN agencies. Raoul also coordinates global business positions for the WTO plurilateral negotiations on the trade-related aspects of e-commerce, and works with UNCITRAL colleagues to advance legislative frameworks that provide an enabling environment for paperless trade.
Prior to joining ICC Raoul worked as an attorney in the Melbourne office of Corrs Chambers Westgarth and at the Australian Federal Anti-Dumping Commission.
Raoul holds a Juris Doctor degree from Melbourne Law School, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne.

Prof. Dr. Nicolas Rouiller, Ph.D. in Law (Basel University, 2001), admitted to the Swiss bar (2002), is partner and cofounder of the law firm SwissLegal Roulller & Associés in Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg. He is professor at Business School Lausanne since 2004 and has been teaching since 2006 in universities in Moscow.
He is member of the Scientific Consultative Council of the Court for Intellectual Property Rights of the Russian Federation. He has been active as an expert for the UNO and OSCE in matters of cryptocurrencies with regard to anti-money laundering regulations and practices. He has published 12 books and more than 100 scientific articles on corporate, banking and contract law and was in 2019 Rapporteur général of the international association of the friends of French legal culture (Association Capitant) on the topic of Economie solidaire.

Denis has more than 20 years of experience in civil law, corporate law, including the organization of legal work in commercial entities. He specializes in coordinating new projects, as well as liability structure planning, holding negotiations, and fulfilling the contractual obligations on commercial (investment) agreements with foreign partners. Denis has special expertise in supporting major investment transactions and in planning and executing large multi-part transactions both with residents and non-residents of the Russian Federation, delegating to the parties, and raising foreign capital.
Denis graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University Law School. He holds an LLM Degree from the University of Manchester and the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences joint program.