Filip Balcerzak, LLM, PhD

The European Commission nominated Filip as a candidate arbitrator and expert on trade and sustainability in disputes regarding trade agreements between the EU and third countries. He has served as an arbitrator in over fifty arbitrations, as a presiding arbitrator, side arbitrator, sole arbitrator and emergency arbitrator. He specialises in the resolution of domestic and international commercial disputes. He has experience in advising and handling cases before international arbitral tribunals (including ad hoc arbitrations in New York and London).

He is a registered arbitrator on the lists maintained by Poland’s largest arbitration institutions: the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce in Warsaw and Lewiatan Arbitration Court in Warsaw, and by leading foreign arbitral institutions: International Centre for Dispute Resolution, international division of the American Arbitration Association (United States), Hong Kong International Arbitration Center (Hong Kong), South China International Arbitration Center (Hong Kong), Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (China), Arbitration Court at the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Bulgaria), Riga Arbitration Court (Latvia), Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration (Lithuania), Maldives International Arbitration Centre (Maldives), Arbitration Center of Mexico (Mexico), Court of International Commercial Arbitration (Romania), Qatar International Center for Conciliation & Arbitration (Qatar), Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa International Court (South Africa) and Energy Disputes Arbitration Center (Turkey). He is also on the London Court of International Arbitration’s database of arbitrators for appointments made by that institution.

He successfully combines his professional practice with academic work. He is a lecturer in law at Brunel University of London (United Kingdom) and an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland).