Mr. Pieter Bekker has 25 years of experience in private and public international law litigation and commercial and investment arbitration worldwide and combines with an active law practice a tenured professorial appointment at the internationally renowned Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) in Dundee (UK), where he is Founding Director of DOLFIN (Dundee Ocean and Lake Frontiers Institute and Neutrals). His practice focuses on private and public international law advice, especially to foreign investors, States, state-owned entities, and intergovernmental organizations (incl. CRFM, IATA, IFAD, IFC, IDB, UN), and representing multinational corporations (especially in the extractive industries), state entities and intergovernmental organizations before courts/tribunals and in international commercial, investor-State, and State-to-State arbitrations and proceedings (incl. ICJ, ITLOS, UNCLOS Annex VII, ICSID, ICC, UNCITRAL, AAA, UNCC, HKIAC, Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration).