Thomas W. Wälde
Thomas W. Wälde
Thomas W. Wälde, former UN Inter-regional Adviser on Petroleum and Mineral Legislation, is Professor & Jean-Monnet Chair at CEPMLP/Dundee, and a frequent expert, but also counsel, mediator and arbitrator in international energy and investment disputes (ICSID, NAFTA, Energy Charter Treaty, BIT and commercial contract disputes). Special member of AIPN, member of several int'l arbitral institutions, Rechtsanwalt (Frankfurt) & Essex Court Chambers, London. Adviser to the international institutions in the oil and gas field (OPEC, IEA, UN, APEC, EU, World Bank), Editor of the major journals and internet intelligence services (OGEL[1], TDM[2]) and moderator of the ENATRES[3] & OGEMID[4] internet discussion communities. Identified as leading international energy lawyer in a Euromoney survey, leading international lawyer in a Cambridge-sponsored Who's Who in International law and one of three international arbitrators resident in Scotland. Formerly (up to 1990) Interregional Adviser on Mineral and Petroleum law and International Investment Policy, United Nations, New York; staff and consultant for UN Centre on Transnational Corporations and UNIDO (1976-1980); Reporter for ILA Foreign Investment Law Committee (damages and tax-related investment disputes). Frequent speaker and author on international investment law, natural resources, mineral, energy and oil and gas law, including renegotiation, taxation, indirect expropriation, de-commissoning (abandonment) of offshore operations; state enterprise privatisation, investment treaties, environmental regulation; arbitration; Energy Charter Treaty.
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- The Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP)
- Journal of World Investment and Trade
- Int and Comparative Law Quarterly (ICLQ)
- Oil, Gas, Energy Law (OGEL)
- ENATRES
- Transnational Dispute Management (TDM)
- OGEMID
- Essex Court Chamber
- International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
- World Bank
- London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
- Energy Charter Treaty
- Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN)
- Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
- UN
- International Arbitration Institute (IAI)
- International Law Association (ILA)
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
- British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)
- American Society of International Law (ASIL)
- Columbia Program on International Investment (CPII)
- APEC