Armando Ambrosio graduated from University of Naples and is a member of the Italian bar. He holds a Master Degree (LL.M.) in International Business Law from King's College London, and a Diploma in Maritime and Export Law from City of London Polytechnic. He qualified as a mediator at AIA in Brussels, specializing in commercial disputes. He taught mediation at Pericles in 2019 and International Trade Law at University of Sannio in 2022. He has worked as a practitioner in the areas of corporate and commercial law, M&A, international contracts and ADR in major law firms in Milan, London, Luxemburg and New York. Until recently he was the resident partner of the Moscow office of the law firm of De Berti Jacchia. He still oversees the Moscow office of the firm from his current base in Milan/Rome.

Carole Basri is the Chief Advisor to the Association of Corporate Counsel‘s Certification Program, is the former Corporate Compliance Advisor at Fordham Law School, as well as an adjunct professor at Fordham, is a Visiting Professor at Peking University School of Transnational Law, and is the President of the Corporate Lawyering Group, LLC., which advises on corporate compliance programs, and has created comprehensive compliance and ethics programs for major corporations including The Dunn & Bradstreet Corporation, Cendant, Benjamin Moore & Co. and Dannon Inc. Previously, Professor Basri taught Corporate Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, at NY University Law School, and others. She has also lectured abroad, including at Hebrew University Law School; the Iraq Studies Institute in Beirut, Lebanon; at Cairo University School of Law, and at Tsinghua Law School in China. She is also on the Academic Committee of the INTERPOL Anti-Corruption Academy. Earlier in her career, Carole Basri worked as in-house counsel for N.W. Ayer, Inc.; Maidenform, Inc.; and China-On-Line, Inc, and consulted for the Perrier Group, Inc. and Deloitte & Touche, LLP, where she helped to create their ethics and compliance practice. For ten years, she served as a member of the Practicing Law Institute (PLI) Corporate General Counsel Advisory Committee, and co-chair of the Practicing Law Institute’s (PLI) Conferences on Corporate Compliance and on Advanced Corporate Compliance. In addition, she has served on numerous committees and lawyers’ associations in New York and internationally, dedicated to corporate counsel and compliance issues. She has also authored several books including Corporate Legal Departments, and International Corporate Practice published by the Practicing Law Institute; E-Discovery for Corporate Counsel, published by West Publishing; and Corporate Compliance Practice Guide: The Next Generation of Compliance, published by Lexis Nexis. Professor Basri is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University and NYU School of Law.

Blake Bailey obtained his Juris Doctor from Baylor Law School in 1973. He is a prominent Texas attorney with over 35 years of practice experience, between 150-200 jury trials and over 40 appellate cases tried. He has received verdicts on subjects ranging from medical malpractice, consumer protection, environmental protection, product liability, industrial disease, to automobile accidents. Professor Bailey has been listed by Fortune Magazine as one of the top 500 lawyers in America. He was also featured on the television series "America's Premier Lawyers." He has authored several professional articles on topics related to workers compensation, sexual abuse law and more, plus, for pleasure he authored three published novels. In the course of his career, he has taught guest lectures and seminars at Baylor Law School, South Texas College of Law, and Houston Law School, as well as giving short courses in American law and dispute resolution at law schools in Udmurtia and Perm. In 2010, Blake Bailey limited his private practice to run as a candidate for the Supreme Court of Texas. Although he didn't win, his loss is Pericles' gain, because this freed his time to spend a whole semester in Russia. At Pericles taught Professional Responsibility and other topics as a visiting professor in the Fall Semester of 2011. He is also continuing his practice as "Of Counsel" with the Martin Walker Law Firm in Texas. For a link to Professor Bailey’s work on a code of ethics for Russian lawyers, please see: http://www.bailey-law.com/rusian-litigation/

Bruce Bean has a B.A. in international relations from Brown University and his J.D. from Columbia. Bruce practiced law for over 20 years in New York and California before moving to Moscow in 1995 to be managing partner of Coudert Brothers' Moscow office. Between 1998 and 2002, Bruce was the Head of the Corporate Department for Clifford Chance in Moscow. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the American Chamber of Commerce from 1996 to 2003 and was a founding director of the Institute of Corporate Law and Governance. Bruce taught the Business Organizations course in the spring 2003 semester and returned to Moscow in 2005 to teach International Business Transactions, and in 2010 to teach Emerging Markets in the University of San Diego summer program. Now a Professor in Residence at Michigan State College of Law, when in Moscow Bruce continues to teach at Pericles on a visiting professor basis.

Brian Bellerose is an attorney and adjunct professor of law. He graduated from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and the University of Chicago and studied education at Columbia University. Brian has taught US business law, international business law, legal language and writing at several universities such as Concordia University of Chicago, Suffolk University Law School and Bentley University. He also has several years of experience teaching English to foreign language speakers. Brian's legal career has specialized in international business, investments and financial services. He has over 25 years of experience advising multi-national companies and start-ups. He was the General Counsel and Managing Director of Renaissance Capital and MDM Group in Moscow Russia, the General Counsel of Oriflame Cosmetics, a publicly-traded company headquartered in Brussels Belgium. He was also the General Counsel of two groups of investment funds—Kazimir Funds, which specialized in investing in the former Soviet Union and BeiKai Capital, a group of private equity funds in China. Brian lives in New York City.

Anatoly Beresnevich was educated at Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages (Now Moscow State Linguistic University) in the 1980s and at the Columbia School of Journalism (1995). Starting professional life as an Intourist Guide in the 1980s, Anatoly found nothing but opportunity in the opening up of the U.S.S.R. to the West. He soon became a translator for U.S. News & World Report, then for the American Bar Association, and finally went freelance in 1996. Since then his career has taken him to simultaneous and consecutive interpreting and translating for the U.S. Embassy and multiple departments of the U.S. government, the British Embassy, the American Bar Association, the Ford Foundation, the Soros Foundation, the WTO, and the G8, as well as for private law firms. He became a specialist in simultaneously interpreting court sessions in Russia and America. He has interpreted at the Supreme Court and Constitutional Courts of Russia, as well as at the Supreme Court of Canada. He has also interpreted speeches at the World Bank (Washington, D.C.) the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Congress. He has worked for numerous ambassadors and statesmen, including such U.S. luminaries as Condoleeza Rice, and Dr. Henry Kissinger. And in all his work, Anatoly keeps a sense of humor and irony that engages and entertains. At Pericles, Anatoly teaches 'Approaching Legal English course' designed for the low-intermediate and intermediate English level students.

Samuel A. Bleicher is currently Visiting Professor at Georgetown University Law School and the Principal of The Strategic Path LLC, through which he consults on strategic decision making. Since 2007 he has taught law and lectured at various law schools in Russia and China on a wide variety of topics, mostly to foreign students, including Chinese judges, prosecutors, and lawyers. From 1981 to 2001, he was a Principal in Miles & Stockbridge P.C. and other law firms, where he worked on legislative and regulatory matters. From 2001 to 2007, Mr. Bleicher was a State Department official responsible for developing and implementing strategic funding initiatives to build and maintain US diplomatic facilities. From 1977 to 1981, he held various positions in the US National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, including Deputy General Counsel. He served as Deputy Director for Regulation & Enforcement in the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency from 1972 to 1975. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern University and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

Rosemary Bointon has a wide range of experience in financial and corporate transactions. Qualified as an English solicitor, she now works in Moscow but has worked in London, Brussels, Kyiv, Tbilisi and Vienna. She has advised the British and Czech governments on public private partnerships as well as advising banks and companies on their projects. She has worked on projects with a number of international development agencies. She has taught courses on legal issues in Tanzania and at MGU in Moscow. She was editor of the DLA Piper European PPP Report published with the European PPP Expertise Centre (based in the European Investment Bank) in November 2009. She advises on off shore transactions, restructuring, project finance, infrastructure, and other concessions. Rosemary has two grown up children. She enjoys living in new countries and learning about their culture and languages. She is keen on skiing and passionate about sailing. She taught PPP Project Finance at Pericles as an adjunct professor.

Michael Bott is the head of the banking and finance practice group at Linklaters in Moscow. Prior to Linklaters, he worked for Allen & Overy in London and for Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York. Professor Bott has a general debt finance practice which encompasses a broad mix of acquisition financings, sovereign lending, real estate financings, private placements, syndicated loans, project financings, securitizations, trade finance and restructuring & insolvency. Recently, he advised 30 international banks on their restructuring of various syndicated debt facilities for Mechel, as well as lenders and borrowers on various financings for Gazprom, VimpelCom, Evraz, LUKoil and Norilsk Nickel. He holds a B.A. from Princeton University and a J.D. from Georgetown University. He is dual-qualified as both a New York and English lawyer.

Laura M. Brank heads the Russia practice of Dechert LLP. She has been advising corporations, investment funds, banks, multinational institutions, and high net worth individuals on complex corporate and finance transactions in emerging markets for over two decades. Since 2014, Professor Brank has become one of the leading experts on U.S. economic sanctions against Russia, speaking and writing extensively on the topic, as well as counseling clients on compliance and sanctions matters.  She has been ranked in The Legal 500 EMEA and Chambers Global since 2007 and is top-ranked for her corporate/M&A work in the 2021 edition of Chambers Europe. She is listed in The Legal 500 EMEA 2021 for banking and finance, dispute resolution, energy & natural resources, real estate and more.  Laura obtained her B.A. from the University of Maryland, J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and M.S. from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. She is a member of the bar in New York and Washington D.C., and is a registered foreign lawyer in England and Wales. Laura has been leading courses on Economic Sanctions at Pericles since 2017. You can see her more extended bio on Dechert’s web page. https://www.dechert.com/people/b/laura-brank.html

Patrick J. Brooks is a Senior Associate at the law firm of Squire, Sanders and Dempsey's Moscow office. He has a diverse corporate practice focused on cross-border transactions with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and corporate finance in Russia. He has represented both US and Russian companies in numerous M&A and investment ventures. Mr. Brooks focused the first 7 years of his legal career on corporate restructuring matters and U.S. bankruptcy law and has extensive experience in providing strategic counsel to distressed businesses, debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, asset purchasers and investors in connection with the restructuring and reorganization of distressed companies and the acquisition and divestiture and their assets. Mr. Brooks served as lead associate for the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Enron Corp. in litigation seeking to avoid billions of dollars in transfers related to highly complex financing structures involving Enron and one of its tier-one banks. He leads the Mergers & Acquisitions Master Class at Pericles and team teaches Business Organizations with Professor Webb.

Sergey Budylin is an advisor at the Bartolius Law Office in Moscow. Mr. Budylin got his LLM, with honors, from Pericles in 2007, where he was the valedictorian of his class. In addition to his Pericles degree, Sergey also holds a Candidate of Science in Physics from Moscow State University, a diploma in economics and management from the Russian American Independent University (American University in Moscow), and a law diploma from the Russian Academy of Investment Specialists (GASIS). Sergey has taught various courses (such as tax planning, English trusts, English contract law, comparative corporate law, and others) at the Higher School of Economics, the Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences (“Shaninka”), the Russian School of Private Law, and Pericles. He is the author of numerous articles on tax, intellectual property and civil law issues, including several well-read English language articles on various topics of Russian law and comparative Russian-US law that have been published in US an European law journals.

Yuriy Brisov is a distinguished partner at D&A Partners and a notable alumnus of Pericles, where he graduated with honors. He also completed the Master of Jurisprudence Program with Widener University, specializing in Corporate Law and Compliance, graduating with honors. With a specialization in digital and transactional law, Yuriy has extensive experience as a lawyer for international blockchain projects, including ICOBOX (2016–2017), Expobank (2020), Hermitage (2021), Midas Investment (2022), IOGINALITY (2023), and Entangle (2024). Since beginning his legal practice in 2003, he has become a leading expert in digital law, blockchain, and securities law, including U.S. securities law. Yuriy is a recognized authority in his field, having been awarded Digital Lawyer of the Year in 2020 by RUNET and receiving a Commendation from the Association of Lawyers in 2019. He was honored with the PRO Charity Prize for Russia's first-ever charity NFT drop in 2021. His work has also been acknowledged by "Law-300," where he is recommended as a lawyer in the field of Digital Economy for 2024. Yuriy is also the editor and co-author of the textbook "Law and Economics of Blockchain." He imparts his knowledge by teaching digital law, the law of blockchain, intellectual property, and information technology, equipping students with the skills needed to navigate these complex and evolving areas.

Donald Cannon graduated from the University of Washington, Seattle. He began his professional life working first as translator for business concerns involved in commerce with the USSR, soon acting as negotiator and commercial representative as East-West trade increased. During this time, he also participated enthusiastically in citizen diplomacy and the Sister Cities Program. After the dissolution of the USSR, Donald embraced the economic changes taking place in Russia and, following the then-popular trend, he helped create several joint ventures. In the 1990s, he also established and managed a new business venture in Russia and was responsible for all of its operations, including complex technical issues. Donald ardently supports cultural diversity and has always advocated for pinpointing and interpreting societal differences and their underlying realities; he believes this to be as important as interpreting words and ideas. Operating on this conviction, he has supplied in-depth Russian company profiles to Western investors, mediated in contract negotiations and edited English-language website for Russian businesses. Wherever Donald has been throughout his career, he has always taught English, also using the principle that experiencing cultural differences is the root of language acquisition. To grasp English fully, we need to perceive its culture from the inside out. Traditional instruction in Russia, however, typically explains English and its culture from the outside in. Donald’s approach is to restore the inside-out flow and to give students a sudden “Aha!” experience uniting both language and culture.

Bruce Wilkie Collins, Q.C., is an international lawyer and professional arbitrator with more than 36 years of experience, specializing in complex commercial and engineering construction and infrastructure disputes. He has chambers in London and Hong Kong, and has been appointed to arbitration panels at the HKIAC, LCIA, the ICC. He has recently been appointed to chair an ICC International Arbitration sited in London and an ICC Arbitration between Russian and Chinese companies to be determined according to Russian law. Bruce has also been active in sports arbitration: he has been a Member of an Appellate Panel of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, has been appointed to the Judicial Branch of World Sailing, to the Australian National Sports Tribunal, and was appointed to chair an Independent Inquiry into the Australian Women’s Hockey Team. As an adjunct professor of law and an honorary lecturer in international commercial arbitration, Bruce Collins has lectured all over Australia as well as at a number of institutions around the world, in cities including Hong Kong, Bahrain, Shenzen, Canaberra, Kiev, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Moscow. In addition, he was selected to train young lawyers in international commercial arbitration on behalf of the United States Department of Commerce. He holds a B.A. in economics and an LL.B. from the University of Sydney, an LL.M. from Melbourne University and a Barrister-at-Law degree from Kings Inn, Dublin. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is admitted to the Bars of England and Wales, the Republic of Ireland, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory, and Fiji. At Pericles, he teaches a popular self-authored course entitled “Designing an Effective Arbitration.”

David Collins is a senior lecturer at City Law School of City University, London, where he teaches international economic law specializing in the law of the World Trade Organization and international investment law. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Globalisation and International Regulation at Maastricht University, a frequent Visiting Professor at the ESADE Law School in Barcelona and a Current Development Editor for the Manchester Journal of International Economic Law. He has been a Visiting Fellow at a number of academic institutions including the Institute of International Economic Law of Georgetown University, the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern, the University of Sydney Law School, the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at the University of Hong Kong, and most recently Columbia Law School in New York. He holds a B.A. and a J.D.from the University of Toronto, an M.Sc. and a BCL (Master of Laws) from Oxford, and is currently working on a Ph.D. in law from Maastricht University. Apart from academic qualifications, David Collins has been a practicing attorney and a Crown Prosecutor in Canada, is a U.K. solicitor and is admitted to the Bars of Ontario and New York. He will be visiting at Pericles in Summer 2012 and teaching W.T.O. law while he works on a book on foreign direct investment from emerging markets in services. In July of 2012 Professor Collins was asked to write an article for the Economist’s Forum on Russia’s Accession to the WTO.

Moses Cook is an American trial attorney and law professor who served as the Executive Director of DC Law Students in Court (recently renamed Rising for Justice) the oldest legal clinic in Washington DC. Prior to serving as Executive Director, he oversaw its criminal defense clinic and supervised law students in all aspects of litigating criminal cases in Washington, DC. In addition, he was faculty at Georgetown University Law Center and supervised a graduate LL.M teaching fellow, coached several mock trial teams for George Washington University and taught classes as an adjunct professor of law. He has argued many cases at the appellate level and is barred in the U.S. Supreme Court and District Court for the District of Columbia. He received his LL.M in Advocacy from Georgetown University Law Center and his J.D. from Washington University School of Law. Moses has extensive trial advocacy teaching experience both in the US and internationally having recently presented in Moscow; Yerevan, Armenia; and Chisinau, Moldova.

Uliana Cooke is a partner leading the International Arbitration Practice at PCB Byrne LLP based in London. She specialises in complex multi-jurisdictional matters, international commercial and investment treaty arbitrations where she represents both States and investors, and enforcement of arbitral awards often involving States and State-owned entities. Uliana has acted as counsel in major international arbitrations, including under ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA, ICC and SIAC Rules, as well as in ad hoc arbitrations emanating from the CIS region, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. She has also advised Governments on investment treaty drafting and issues involving public international law. Uliana is admitted as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales and is also a Russian qualified lawyer having worked for global law firms in Moscow and London. She is currently a partner and the Head of International Arbitration in a dispute resolution-only firm PCB Byrne based in London. In addition to her practice, Uliana is a Teaching Fellow on the international arbitration LLM programme at Queen Mary University of London where she teaches international commercial arbitration. Uliana obtained an LL.M. in Comparative and International Dispute Resolution with Distinction at Queen Mary University in 2014, after receiving her Russian law degree from Moscow State University in 2009, and a Graduate Diploma in law from BPP University in England in 2012, where she also completed the Legal Practice Course in 2015. In addition, she was part of a cohort of students at the Arbitration Academy in Paris where she pursued advanced legal studies in both international commercial and investment treaty arbitration in 2012. Uliana is an advocate for diversity in international arbitration and is a member of ArbitralWomen and the Silicon Valley Mediation and Arbitration Centre.

Robert W. Courtney is an American lawyer and business executive with over 25 years’ experience as a principal in or advisor to the development and management of new ventures in Russia, the CIS, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, China, Taiwan, and Japan, together with 10 years’ experience as a practicing American lawyer. His international business and legal experience includes franchising, cross-border joint ventures, retail, real estate, healthcare services, travel, and information technology. Russia and franchise-specific experience includes: Retail Profile Russia, the first outsource provider of commercialization services to the retail industry in Russia, and licensee of LSE-listed Space and People PLC. Founder, US Dental Care, market-leading operator of dental clinics in Russia. Co-founder, Century 21 Real Estate, owner and developer of the Century 21 master franchise for Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Co-founder, Newbridge Group, a transaction advisory, partner search, and market entry consulting firm representing global brands and franshisors in establishing their businesses in Russia; representative clients included Burger King, Yum! Brands, Thomas Pink, Tally Weijl, Carls Jr., Lee Cooper, Le Pain Quotidien, Peek & Cloppenburg, Maredo, and Nuskin. Advisory Board member, Le Pain Quotidien restaurants in Russia, master licensee and developer of the popular French café concept in the former Soviet Union.He has an international MBA from Thunderbird Global School of Management, a JD from Stetson University College of Law, and a BA in Economics from Vanderbilt University. He is a Board and Executive Committee member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia. He speaks fluent Russian and has elementary or working proficiencies in Spanish, French, and Chinese. https://ru.linkedin.com/in/robertcourtney

Sergey Danilov obtained his Juris Doctor degree from Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University (Arlington, Virginia). A native of St.Petersburg, Russia, he spent over 30 years in various parts of the world, including the United States, Europe, and Central America, and speaks several languages. Currently he lives in France where he consults international clientele on various aspects of commercial and corporate law. At Pericles he teaches Language of Сontracts, Contract Drafting, Business Organizations, Transactional Lawyering and International Asset Recovery.

Marian Dent is the Dean of Pericles Center for International Legal Education, which runs an LLM program as well as legal skills programs for Russian practicing lawyers. Dean Dent teaches courses in legal writing, international business transactions, contract law and economic sanctions law. In addition to teaching law and directing the program, she also created Pericles’ texts on legal writing and legal English, helped develop materials for GMAT and TOEFL preparation, and occasionally teaches the logic section of the GMAT. Professor Dent obtained her Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall) in 1988. After graduating Ms. Dent joined the Washington, D.C. law firm of Kirkpatrick and Lockhart, and worked there for four years in the fields of East-West and international trade, securities and general business law. She moved to Moscow in 1992 to direct the Moscow office of the American Bar Association, CEELI Project. After leaving CEELI, she taught legal writing, and intro to American Law, at the Russian Law Academy of the Russian Ministry of Justice from 1995-1998, and started the first Russian Jessup International Moot Court competition. She has also taught from time to time at Moscow University Touro, the American Institute of Business & Economics, and for ten years taught an introductory course in Russian Law for visiting students from the University of San Diego Law School. She was one of the founders of Pericles, and became Dean in 2002.

Edward Donovan graduated with a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado and then received his J.D. from Southwestern University and in 1989, he began practicing with the Intellectual Property firm of Sheldon & Mak, before eventually forming his own firm with others. Mr. Donovan has spent many hours in U.S. Federal Courts litigating intellectual property claims for clients and representing their interests before the USPTO. Mr. Donovan has also represented various clients in general business affairs and U.S. Customs law, particularly in the international fashion and accessories industry. Mr. Donovan also teaches skiing and is a strong outdoor enthusiast. Mr. Donovan is teaching Intellectual Property Law, Entertainment Law at Pericles. He is a member of the Colorado Bar.

Richard DuVal received a Bachelor of Science degree from California Polytechnic State University, worked as a systems engineer and software developer for the IBM Corporation and other computer technology companies, then went on to obtain his Juris Doctor from California Western School of Law. After gaining considerable trial experience as a criminal defense lawyer, he transitioned to civil litigation and represented a wide variety of individual and corporate clients in state and federal courts in both California and Hawaii. Mr. DuVal has litigated a full range of subjects, including personal injury and property damage cases; product liability; professional liability; construction defect claims; copyright infringement; unfair competition; fraud and negligent misrepresentation; breach of fiduciary duty; breach of contract; partnership disputes; and property, title, and boundary disputes. He has also served as a court-appointed arbitrator, as well as an arbitrator on the Commercial Panel of the American Arbitration Association. At Pericles Mr. DuVal teaches Professional Responsibility, Tort Law, and Property Law.

Paul Richard Engelke is an advocate practicing at the Pretoria Bar in South Africa. He graduated from the University of Port Elizabeth in 1991 with a B-Juris and immediately started working as a Public Prosecutor. In 1995 the Department of Justice relocated him to Pretoria. While in Pretoria he enrolled at the University of Pretoria where he graduated with a LLB. He completed the Law School for attorneys in 2001 and practiced as an attorney for a year. In 2002 he was admitted as an Advocate to the High Court of SA. In 2003 he worked for the Special Investigation Unit of the National Prosecution Authority where he spent 12 years specializing in the investigation and prosecution of Fraud, Corruption and Serious Commercial Crimes. He also headed up the Anti-Money Laundering unit of the SIU, it was during his time at the SIU that he was invited and attended a Forensic Investigation Course at the Russian Federal Detectives Collage, in Moscow. From 2015 he shared his time between his advocate duties and giving lectures to students in Criminal law and Forensic Investigations in Pretoria. Mr Engelke also completed the CELTA course and teaches English as a foreign language.

Demetrius Floudas obtained his LL.B. from National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, a Diploma in European Legal Practice from the University in Hannover and an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge, where he is a Senior Associate in European and International Law at Hughes Hall College, delivering lectures on European Law and supervising Cambridge graduate students in International Law and International Relations. Professor Floudas has also taught at the University of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne). In addition to teaching, Demetrius is Senior Manager of IKRP Rokas & Partners Law Firm office. For three years he was the Team Leader for the EU Project assisting in Russia's entry into the WTO. He taught European Union Law and Legal English at Pericles on an adjunct Professor basis until moving back to Athens to take a position advising the government on privatisation issues. He has subsequently continued his International Legal Counsel role, with a number of appointments advising governments, public authorities and private clients in various countries. Prof. Floudas is a Visiting Professor at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University & Deputy Director of the Annual Legal Skills Summer School in Kaliningrad. He also teaches the course on 'European Law of Finance' for the Masters in International Financial Law at MGIMO. He returns to Pericles to lecture a few times a year, including directing the Oral Skills & Advocacy section of the Jessup Summer School.

Art Franczek is the president of the American Institute of Business & Economics (AIBEc), a top ranked Western style MBA program in Russia. He holds an MBA, a CPA and a Masters of Science in Taxation from DePaul University in Chicago, and worked as Corporate Tax Manager for seven years with a Fortune 1000 company dealing with federal and international tax issues involving 25 countries. He has several published articles on taxation issues, and has taught tax accounting, tax policy, comparative taxation and similar courses to business students for the past 20 years. He is a member of the American Chamber of Commerce Tax Committee, and Co-Chair of the Customs Committee, and in between teaching for AIBEc he is a frequently conference speaker on comparative taxation and tax accounting issues at various institutions and businesses around the world. He teaches Intro to U.S. Tax Law at Pericles.

Robert Hawkins is a Senior Counsel in the Washington, DC office of Hunton & Williams, a multi-national law firm with over 800 lawyers in the U.S. and in London, Brussels, Bangkok, Beijing and Tokyo. Mr. Hawkins has devoted the bulk of his time over the past two decades to international arbitration proceedings in London, Paris, Washington, and Singapore, representing state-owned companies, private investors, and commercial entities from East Africa, the Balkans, China, and the United States in proceedings before the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes ("ICSID"), the International Chamber of Commerce ("ICC"), and the Singapore International Arbitration Center ("SIAC"). He has also had extensive experience as a trial and appellate litigator in U.S. federal and state courts. Mr. Hawkins obtained his B.A. in American Studies from Amherst College (1971), an LLB from Cambridge University (1973), and a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law (1976). He has taught International Commercial Arbitration at the University of Richmond (Virginia) School of Law and has also been a visiting lecturer at Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius, Lithuania (2012) and at FAMA College in Pristina, Kosovo. Mr. Hawkins is married to Rebecca Carr, a teacher of philosophy at George Washington University and at American University , both located in Washington, DC. They have three grown children and one grand-daughter. Hr. Hawkins is a full-time visiting Professor at Pericles in the Spring of 2014, where is teaching International Commercial Arbitration and other courses.

Roger Hiatt is the Principal of Hiatt, LLC where he practices International Business and Trade. He has practiced in the area of international business since 1984 and assists clients in a variety of situations, including structuring international business transactions; drafting international agreements; compliance with international trade laws, including U.S. import and export regulations; organizing international trade finance, including EXIM Bank financing, letter of credit agreements and related matters; handling business-related immigration issues; and establishing and maintaining offshore financial entities. Roger is a frequent speaker and writer, and conducts seminars and presentations on international business and international law issues for other professional, business, and community groups. He has been an adjunct professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law from 1996-2002, and an adjunct professor at the same university’s Bloch School of Business from 2003 through the present. Additionally, he has been a visiting professor at the European Teaching University Law Faculty in Tbilisi, and at Sapientia University in Romania. He has judged in the VIS and in both regional and international rounds of the Jessup. He holds a J.D. from Washburn University, and LL.M. degrees from Columbia University and Boston University.