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Graham Coop

Graham Coop joined the Energy Charter Secretariat as General Counsel in 2004. Prior to this, he was Head of the Energy and Natural Resources Group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Paris, where he was based from 1992 until 2002, followed by two years as a partner with Denton Wilde Sapte's Energy and Infrastructure Department in London. His extensive experience in gas, oil, electricity and other energy and infrastructure matters includes numerous investment arbitration matters as well as price review and other contractual disputes. He was a member of the legal team representing Bahrain in its territorial sovereignty and maritime delimitation dispute with Qatar in the International Court of justice and received the Order of Bahrain as a result of his work on that dispute. He has advised governments and international corporations on disputed sovereignty and maritime delimitation issues throughout the Middle East.

James M Gaitis

James M Gaitis is the former Director of the International Dispute Resolution programme at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law & Policy, University of Dundee, Scotland where he continues to teach international oil and gas arbitration. An oil and gas lawyer with over 29 years of experience, he has served in a broad variety of capacities, including as an oil and gas trial lawyer, in-house counsel, special counsel and, for over 17 years, as an arbitrator adjudicating a broad variety of upstream, midstream and downstream disputes. He is a Fellow and Chartered Arbitrator of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow and Director of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, as well as a member of the AIPN and a variety of international and US Bar Associations, arbitration institutions and oil and gas committees and panels. He frequently speaks and writes on the topic of commercial arbitration.