Koorosh Ameli is an arbitrator and legal consultant in international legal disputes and founder of Ameli International Arbitration in the Hague area of the Netherlands. He is a Law graduate of Harvard University and a Fellow of the Charted Institute of Arbitrators. Koorosh is a member of the International Law Association International Commercial Arbitration Committee, ICC Institute of World Business Law, ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, ICC Netherlands Commission on Arbitration and ADR, London Court of International Arbitration and various other arbitral institutions.

For 26 years prior to Koorosh founding his law firm, he worked for the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, initially as legal advisor and soon later as arbitrator. The Iran-United States Claims Tribunal was established in 1981 under the Algiers Accords by the Islamic Republic of Iran and the USA to resolve certain claims by nationals of one State Party against the other State Party and certain claims between the State Parties.

With the Tribunal, Koorosh served as arbitrator in more than 100 cases of treaty disputes between states as well as treaty-based cases of expropriation of foreign investments and property rights, state contracts, construction and commercial contracts between US national and Iran. In the same period he also served as arbitrator in major ICC and ad hoc UNICTRAL arbitration cases. His cases in particular covered defense, petroleum, telecommunication, housing insurance and banking industries.

Koorosh was a member of the steering committee for the Permanent Court of Arbitration for revitalization of its rules of procedure where his experience with the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules at the Iran-US Claims Tribunal contributed to the adoption of the UNCITRAL Rules for the PCA with some amendments, a historic development where a dormant PCA soon turned to a very active institution and presently has 117 pending cases before it.

Since his resignation from the Tribunal in 2009, he has been appointed by counsel for foreign claimants as legal expert on various issues of international business law and Iranian law in a number of major arbitration cases, one of which was a bilateral investment treaty dispute. He has been appointed as legal expert, sole arbitrator, counsel or legal consultant in various ICC, IDFC-LCIA and ad hoc arbitration or litigation cases. For further details see his law firm website, www.ameiarbitration.com

In his spare time, he enjoys gardening and biking, and resides in The Hague, Netherlands.

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