Our next panel will deal with the topic: The Present Reality, a
look at the enforcement situation in the world today, which we

have divided into two sub-presentations. The first is the results of

the 2014 ITA Survey on enforcement and the second is a panel

discussion with a series of highly experienced and qualified

individuals who will talk about their own experiences in the

enforcement of international arbitration awards. Let me begin by

introducing our panel, after which I will present our survey results.

 

 

Our first speaker is Professor Dr. Reinmar Wolff, who qualified

in Germany, practiced as a commercial lawyer, and has a Ph.D.

from Marburg in Germany where he is an assistant professor in

the law faculty. He also acts as an international arbitrator. His

book, New York Convention: A Commentary,1 which is a true civil

law commentary on the Convention itself, is an attempt to look at

how the Convention should be applied and how it is being

applied. His talk today will concern that subject and he may have

some interesting and perhaps surprising statistics on

enforcement in certain jurisdictions.

 

 

Mark Lowes, Vice President and head of Litigation for Kellogg

Brown & Root, or KBR, is part of a team that spun-off KBR as a

public company and has steered the company through a

successful FCPA investigation. He has dealt with a number of

personal injury cases arising out of conducting construction

operations in a war zone. So he views enforcement as sort of light