Giacomo Rojas Elgueta is Professor of Private Law at Roma Tre University Law School, and Of Counsel and Head of International Arbitration at Chiomenti. 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, LCIA, Swiss Arbitration Centre and CAM, with seat in different countries. He is among others President of the ICC Italia Commission on Arbitration and ADR, member of the ICSID Panel of Conciliators (appointed by the Italian Government), Delegate to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, Co-editor of the ICCA project “Does a Right to a Physical Hearing Exist in International Arbitration?”, and Co-Chair of the Focus Group “Construction Arbitration” of the Italian Association for Arbitration. A dual qualified lawyer (Rome and New York), he earned an LL.M. with distinction and an S.J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and he was a Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School.