Advisory Council
The IMI Advisory Council has review, advisory and enabling functions. The members of the Advisory Council are:
Lord Woolf of Barnes, Former Lord Chief Justice of England & Wales
Professor Tommy Koh, Singapore Ambassador at Large
William Ury, Co - founder, Ha rvard Program on Negotiation
William K. Slate III, Former President , American Arbitration Association
Aleš Zalar, Former Minister of Justice, Slovenia
Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa, Chair of the Board of ICC Bahrain
Jay Welsh, General Counsel, JAMS
Lord Woolf of Barnes,
Former
Lord Chief Justice of England & Wales
The Rt Hon Lord Woolf is Chairman of the Advisory Council. Lord Woolf was called to the Bar in 1955 and in 1974 was appointed first Treasury Counsel (Common Law). He was appointed to the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in 1979, became Lord Justice of Appeal in 1986 and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 1992. From 1996 until 2000 he was Master of the Rolls and from 2000 to 2005 he served as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. He was named in The Times Law 100 2009 listing the most influential lawyers in Britain.
Professor Tommy Koh
Singapore
Ambassador at Large
Professor Tommy Koh is currently the Ambassador-At-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Director, Institute of Policy Studies and Chairman of the National Heritage Board.
William Ury
Co - founder
Harvard Program on Negotiation
Professor William L. Ury co-founded Harvard's Program on Negotiation and is currently a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Negotiation Project. Trained as a social anthropologist, with a B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. from Harvard, Professor Ury has served as a negotiation adviser and mediator in conflicts ranging from corporate mergers to wildcat strikes in a Kentucky coal mine to ethnic wars in the Middle East, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union.
William K. Slate II
Former President
American Arbitration Association
Mr. William K. Slate II is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Arbitration Association. The AAA is the largest dispute resolution organization in the world. He is the former President of the Justice Research Institute; the former Director of a Congressionally mandated seminal study of Federal Courts in America; and the first-ever consultant to the senior staff of the Supreme Court of the United States on strategic planning. He conceived and founded CAMCA (The commercial Arbitration and Mediation Center for the Americas) for the resolution of private party commercial disputes under the NAFTA accords. He is a founder of the International Mediation Institute.
Aleš Zalar,
Former Minister of Justice
Slovenia
Aleš Zalar was born on 22 October 1961. He graduated in law. From 1989 to 2008 he was a judge. At the end of his career as a judge he was a Senior District Court Judge. From 1991 to 2007 he was the President of the Basic Court in Ljubljana and later the District Court in Ljubljana. He was then the EU's legal consultant for EU law with the Romanian Supreme Court and for mediation with the Croatian Ministry of Justice.
Sheikha Haya R. Al Khalifa
Chair of the Board of ICC
Bahrain
Sheikha Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa is Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution, an independent institution established to provide a world class international ADR Centre of excellence to international and local commercial and governmental users contracting in the Gulf and beyond.
Jay Welsh
General Counsel
JAMS
John "Jay" Welsh is Executive Vice President and General Counsel of JAMS. He has played a prominent role in the growth of alternative dispute resolution since 1991. As General Counsel of JAMS, he oversees all legal matters, panel quality, risk management, and ethics.