In his capacity as Vice-President of the International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions (IFCAI), CRCICA Director attended both the IFCAI Council and the 20th IFCAI General Assembly meetings held in Miami on 6 and 7 April 2014, respectively.
During such meetings, the revision of IFCAI’s Constitution was discussed based on a draft amendment submitted by the Nominating Committee composed of Bill Slate, Adrian Winstanley and Jens Bredow as well as the discussions that took place during the last Council meeting held in Paris on 5 December 2013.
The next IFCAI Council meeting is scheduled to take place in November 2015 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt on the occasion of the Sharm El-Sheikh V Conference on the role of state courts in arbitration, while the 13th IFCAI Biennial Conference shall take place in Manama, Bahrain in March 2015. The tentative theme of the Conference is legitimacy of international arbitration from an institutional perspective.