Karen Mills J.D., F.CIArb., F. SIArb., F. HKIArb. Chartered Arbitrator Karen Mills, a Founding Member of the KarimSyah Law Firm in Jakarta, is universally recognised as one of Asia’s leading arbitrators. She sits as arbitrator throughout the region and the US, and coaches several teams, and often serves as judge/arbitrator, for the VIS and other moot competitions, also serving on the Board of the Vis East Moot Organisation. Ms. Mills has been a Fellow of CIArb since 1996 and a Chartered Arbitrator from approximately 2000. She established and, for its first ten years Chaired, the Indonesian Chapter of CIArb, now serving as Advisor, and is also a member of the Main Committee of the CIArb's East Asia Branch. She has often tutored all level of CIArb, and other, courses both in Indonesia and elsewhere in the region. Ms. Mills was one of the original members of ArbitralWomen, and served on the Board and Executive Board for the first 26 years of the organisation's existence, having just stepped down last year to join the Advisory Council. She set up and for a number of years Chaired both the Mentorship and the Moot Funding committees. Ms. Mills has sat as arbitrator in cases involving oil, gas, mining, power, insurance, finance, tax, and general investment and trade. As counsel she has successfully acted as lead counsel for the Indonesian Government in a number of investor-state disputes, and also represents various state-owned and private multinational companies, in both resolution of disputes and structuring of transactions. Ms. Mills’s substantive fields of specialization include investor-state disputes, financing and restructuring, oil, gas, mining and energy matters, hotel and leisure management, insurance, maritime and aviation law, information technology and general cross-border investment and transactions. She has published over 150 papers in international professional books and journals, and sits on the boards of a number of other prestigious, institutions, such as the IMI/IBA Investor-State Mediation Task Force, Appointing Committee of the Chinese European Arbitration Centre and the Editorial Board of the Journal of World Energy Law & Business. Contact: kmills@cbn.net.id 27th Floor; Alamanda Tower Jl. TB Simatupang Kav.23-24 Jakarta, 12430, Republic of Indonesia Telephone: (62-21) 2966 0001; Telefax: (62-21) 2966 0007 Direct e-mail: kmills @cbn.net.id Website: www.KarimSyah.com