The ROAP Americas 2025/6 Finals brought to a close our advanced remote oral advocacy and cross-examination courses, by featuring the most persuasive and skilled participants on each course.
The outcome of the finals was determined by a panel of world-class arbitrators consisting of Lucinda Low (President), Gonzalo Flores and Katherine González Arrocha.
The winners were,Jose Angelo David (WilmerHale, Washington D.C.), and the expert Dayton Marit (EY, Alberta) for the cross-examination course Hafsa Ahmad (Three Crowns LLP, Washington D.C.) and Lisa Lachowicz (Debevoise & Plimpton, New York) for the oral submissions course, and Hafsa Ahmad (Three Crowns LLP, Washington D.C.) as the best advocate.
The other finalists were Aarushi Nargas (Three Crowns LLP, Washington D.C.), with the experts Andres F. Barrera (BRG, New York) for the cross-examination course, and Yassine Alaoui (Teynier Pic, Paris) and Momin b. Mohsin (Xtrategy LLP, Washington D.C.) for the oral submissions course.
You will find short bios of the tribunal members below.
TRIBUNAL FOR ROAP Americas 2025/6 FINALS
Lucinda Low has more than 40 years of international legal practice experience in a wide variety of industries and geographies. Her arbitration experience includes both investor-state and commercial disputes. She has served as counsel, expert and arbitrator. She has served as presiding arbitrator in a number of cases as well as a party-appointed arbitrator. As a member of LKDR, she is focused on independent adjudicative and advisory services. Lucinda chairs of the Board of Directors of the Coalition for Integrity (formerly known as Transparency International – USA), and also a member of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on International Law. She is a former president of the American Society of International Law and a former chair of the ABA Section of International Law. In 2017 she was appointed by the president of the World Bank to serve six-year term on the International Centre for Settlement of Investments Disputes (ICSID) Panel of Arbitrators, as one of ten lawyers named to the panel and the only one from the United States. She is a member of the ICC’s Commission on Arbitration and ADR. Lucinda speaks and works in Portuguese, Spanish and French as well as English.
Gonzalo Flores forthcoming
Katherine Gonzalez Arrocha has been appointed as arbitrator in more than 30 cases. In addition, she has acted twice as a Dispute Board Member (DAB) under two FIDIC construction contracts in Central America (in the first case as Sole Member in 2012 and in the second case as Chair of the DAB in 2019). She has also acted as legal expert. She is a member of the panel of arbitrators and conciliators for Panama before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), and several other institutions.
FINALISTS (Forthcoming)
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