Maria Beatrice Deli is Professor of International Law at the University of Molise and of International Arbitration at the Department of Law, Roma Tre University. She worked as an attorney specialised in private international law and international law and gained an extensive experience on international commercial and investment arbitration at Chiomenti. She is Secretary General of the Italian Association for Arbitration (AIA). She is co-founder of ArbIt (Italian Forum for arbitration and ADR) and a member of the editorial board of the “Rivista dell’Arbitrato” and “Diritto del Commercio Internazionale”.

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Giacomo Rojas Elgueta is an Associate Professor of Private Law at the Roma Tre University Law Department and Of Counsel at Chiomenti, where he heads the international arbitration practice. A dual qualified lawyer in Italy and New York, he is actively involved in commercial and investment arbitration as counsel, expert witness and arbitrator. He has acted as sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator in various arbitration proceedings, both ad hoc and under the rules of the ICC, Swiss Arbitration Centre and CAM with seat in different countries. In January 2023, he has been appointed by the Italian Republic to the ICSID Panel of Conciliators for a six-year term. He is Co-editor of the ICCA project Does a Right to a Physical Hearing Exist in International Arbitration?, Member of the Board and Co-Chair of the Focus Group on Construction Arbitration of AIA and past Co-Chair of ArbIt (the Italian Forum for Arbitration and ADR). He earned an LL.M. with distinction and an S.J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and was a Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School.

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Benedetta Mauro is a Ph.D. candidate in Private Law at Roma Tre University Law Department, where she is undertaking research on international commercial contracts supervised by Prof. Giacomo Rojas Elgueta. Benedetta also assists Prof. Giacomo Rojas Elgueta in his capacity as arbitrator, including as secretary of arbitral tribunals. Previously, she worked at D|R Arbitration & Litigation, an Italian boutique law firm focused on international commercial and investment arbitration, as well as commercial litigation. She was admitted to the Rome bar in 2022. Before graduating with honors at LUISS Guido Carli (Rome, Italy) in July 2019, she was an oralist at the Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Competition and an exchange student at the Universidad de Belgrano (Buenos Aires, Argentina). She is a member of Young ICCA and AIA-ArbIt-40, and she is fluent in Italian, English, and Spanish.