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Gary Born

Chair, International Arbitration Practice Group

Gary Born is the chair of the International Arbitration Practice Group at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. He has participated as counsel in more than 675 international arbitrations, including several of the largest arbitrations in ICC and ad hoc history, and has sat as arbitrator in more than 250 institutional and ad hoc arbitrations. Mr. Born is uniformly ranked as one of the leading practitioners in the field, and is the only lawyer in the world to receive global "starred" status in Chambers rankings for international arbitration.

Mr. Born has published a number of leading works on international arbitration and other forms of international dispute resolution. His recent works include International Commercial Arbitration (Kluwer 3d ed. 2021), the leading treatise in the field; International Arbitration: Law and Practice (Kluwer 3d ed. 2021); and International Arbitration and Forum Selection Agreements: Drafting and Enforcing (Kluwer 6th ed. 2021).  Mr. Born teaches at leading law schools around the world, including Harvard, Stanford, National University of Singapore, St. Gallen and elsewhere.  Mr. Born recently published his first novel - The File - an action-packed spy thriller.