Jean Kalicki

About Jean Kalicki

International Arbitration Specialties: Investor-State arbitration international…

Experience

1. Independent Arbitrator

   Arbitration Chambers

   Jan 2020 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Jean Kalicki is an independent arbitrator specializing in investor-State, international and complex commercial disputes. Until 2016, she was a Partner at Arnold & Porter LLP, serving as counsel in high-stakes international disputes; she thereafter transitioned exclusively to arbitrator work. In 2020, she joined Arbitration Chambers, an association of independent arbitrators with offices in Hong Kong, London and New York. Over 30 years, she has conducted arbitrations involving six continents, across many industries, under public international law and the laws of dozens of countries. She is listed on the arbitrator rosters of institutions around the world and on three rosters for State-to-State treaty arbitrations.Ms. Kalicki is a member of the Governing Board of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA). She previously served on the Court of the London Court of International Arbitration (20••••21), including as Vice President (20••••21); as a member of the American Arbitration Association Board of Directors and Council (20••••21); and as a member of the International Chamber of Commerce Commission on Arbitration and the Board of Directors of SICANA, Inc.(ICC North America). She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and of the College of Commercial Arbitrators and taught arbitration and advocacy for many years as adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center and American University Washington College of Law.Ms. Kalicki is regularly ranked in Chambers’ Band 1 (“Most In-Demand” Arbitrators) for both Global Arbitration and Public International Law, and was its only “Star Arbitrator” (above Band 1) in the USA for 2019 and 2020. Best Lawyers in America has named her “Lawyer of the Year” five times in her jurisdiction and practice; Who’s Who Legal annually lists her in their “Thought Leaders: Global Elite”; and Global Arbitration Review named her the “Best Prepared/Most Responsive Arbitrator” in the world in 2017.

Education

• Horace Mann High School

  High School

  1978 — 1982

• Harvard Law School

  J.D., Law

  1986 — 1989

• Harvard University

  B.A., Government - International Relations

  1982 — 1986

Skills

• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• International Law
• International Arbitration
• Arbitration
• International Trade Law
• Public International Law