Albert Jan van den Berg

Who is Albert Jan van den Berg?

Albert Jan van den Berg is a founding partner of Hanotiau & van den Berg in Brussels, a Professor at Law and the Arbitration Chair at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam, a visiting Professor at the University of Tsinghua School of Law, Beijing and a member of the Faculty of the Geneva Master of Laws in International Dispute Settlement, Geneva.

The world-renowned arbitrator holds a Doctor of Laws from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, a Docteur en droit from the University of Aix-en-Provence, a Master of Comparative Jurisprudence from the Institute on Foreign Law of New York University and a Master of Laws from the University of Amsterdam.

His early professional career includes positions as partner at the law firms of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Amsterdam, Stibbe Simont Monahan Duhot in Amsterdam and Van Doorne & Sjollema Advocaten in Rotterdam and as Attorney-at-Law in Salah Hejailan, Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. Albert Jan van den Berg is a former President and Secretary-General of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute in Rotterdam and a former Vice-President of the London Court of International Arbitration. Furthermore, he has worked at the department of international commercial arbitration of the TCM Asser Institute and as private assistant to Professor Pieter Sanders.