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Jacob Christian Jørgensen

Jacob Christian Jørgensen

I am a Danish lawyer with more than 20 years’ PQE from Swiss, UK and Scandinavian law firms as well as in-house positions. I specialise in international arbitration law, maritime law, environmental law and construction law - with particular focus on large infrastructure projects and onshore and offshore renewable energy projects. 

In 2016, I joined the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) as a Fellow, and in 2024 I was elected vice chair of the European Branch of the Institute. I have acted as an arbitrator under the Rules of Procedure of the CAS, the ICC, the Danish Institute of Arbitration and in ad hoc arbitrations. In 2019, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne appointed me as the third Danish national arbitrator of the court. I have also been appointed as a panelist by among others: The WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center in Geneva; the Court of Arbitration for Art (CAfA); the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC); the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC); the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration; and the Chinese Arbitration Association. 

In August 2021, I qualified as a FIDIC Certified Adjudicator and was included on the FIDIC President's List. In 2022, I was appointed chairman of FIDIC's Task Group 14, which is drafting a new FIDIC book for offshore wind projects. In October 2023, I joined the state-owned company, Femern A/S, which is the Employer on the Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link project - currently, the largest IMT project in the world. In October 2024, I enrolled as a PhD student at the Faculty of Law of the Humboldt University in Berlin.

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Konstantina Morou

Konstantina Morou

Konstantina is a dedicated Attorney-at-Law and Mediator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland.

She has cooperated with highly esteemed shipping companies resolving successfully maritime issues, while in 2014 she was entrusted with the newly incorporated "Athletic Union of Constantinople - AEK FC" as Legal Counsel, where she specialised at sport law handling various aspects of sport cases, while she was Head of the London Stock Exchange Project (LSE).

Sectors of specialisation as an attorney and legal counsel: maritime, sports, civil, commercial, corporate, labor law.

Accredited Mediator, certified by the Hellenic Republic Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human rights.

Trained in Mediation at the Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University School of Law, California, U.S.A.

PhD of Laws candidate at the Dimokrition University of Thrace.

Master at International Maritime Law, University of Wales, Swansea, UK.

Graduate in Law, Dimokition University of Thrace, Greece.

Graduate in Theology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Languages spoken: English, French, Italian, German, Greek. 

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Ucheora Onwuamaegbu

Ucheora Onwuamaegbu

Uche is a consulting attorney in the International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution practice at Arent Fox Schiff. Uche regularly provides advisory services and acts as arbitrator in international disputes.

For more than a decade, Uche was Senior Counsel at the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), in Washington, DC. He was involved, as Secretary or Team Leader, in over 70 cases in various economic sectors, including oil, gas, and mining, construction, agriculture, finance, and tourism; and was a core member of the 2016 ICSID Rules amendment team. Prior to ICSID, he was a lawyer at the United Nations Compensation Commission, Geneva, working on various types of cases, including a consolidated claim of over 800,000 migrant workers for lost remittances; as well as claims by airlines and shipping companies, banks and insurance companies. He was in domestic law practice in the UK and in Nigeria before that.

Uche’s current practice focuses on international investment arbitration, commercial disputes, and advisory services. He has served as presiding-, sole-, and co-arbitrator in disputes before ICSID, the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, the American Arbitration Association, New York, and the Dubai International Arbitration Centre. He advises the State of Kuwait’s multi-billion dollar National Focal Point for Environmental Projects. A member of the Board of the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center, Uche is also on the Panel of Arbitrators of various arbitration institutions around the world.

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Allegra Collins

Allegra Collins

Allegra Collins is a judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals, having been elected statewide to an eight-year term beginning in 2019. Prior to her election, she was a full-time faculty member at Campbell Law School where she served in various roles – including externship director and interim director of legal research and writing – and taught various courses – including Appellate Brief Writing, Judicial Writing, Remedies, Externship Seminar, and Legal Research and Writing. Before becoming a full-time faculty member, she was an adjunct professor for three years.

Judge Collins founded her own appellate law firm in 2015 and represented clients before the N.C. Court of Appeals, Supreme Court of North Carolina, and U.S. Supreme Court. She is a former law clerk to the Honorable Judge Linda Stephens on the North Carolina Court of Appeals and a former Assistant Appellate Reporter at the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

She is a member, and former chair, of the North Carolina Bar Association’s Appellate Practice section and a member of its Appellate Rules Committee. She received her LL.M. in Judicial Studies from Duke Law School, her J.D. from Campbell Law School, and her B.A. from The College of William and Mary.

Judge Collins is also a former world-class athlete who represented the United States in two Pan American Games as a member of the Women’s Team Handball Team. She played team handball professionally in Europe and was a member of the United States National Team. Prior to her team handball career, she was a world-ranked tennis player. She was a full-scholarship athlete at UCLA and William and Mary while competing in professional tournaments around the globe.

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Cassandra Matilde Fernandes

Cassandra Matilde Fernandes

I am an international legal and policy leader with 12+ years advising governments, intergovernmental organisations and regulated industries. I am specialised in governance, integrity frameworks, treaty implementation and high-stakes commercial operations. 

As a senior regulatory governance and integrity advisor with commercial judgment, I have led treaty implementation and legislative reform projects across Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. I have advised governments, regulators and global corporations on governance compliance and integrity frameworks and delivered high-stakes commercial and regulatory work in sport media and major international events. California-qualified and trained across common-law systems, I bring strong analytical judgment cross-border perspective and senior stakeholder credibility particularly in environments combining public policy commercial risk and international regulation. 

My consulting work includes advising governments, public bodies and international organisations on good governance, integrity, policy drafting, whistleblowing frameworks, investigations and compliance. I have acted as a delegate in multiple intergovernmental committees and contributed to major publications on sports integrity, financial crime, illegal betting and regulatory frameworks.

I am now based in the UAE and focused on senior advisory roles spanning regulatory governance integrity, and strategic legal functions.

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