Michael McIlwrath
CEO, MDisputes (MDisputes.com) and former Vice President - Litigation for Baker Hughes Company, a leading global energy technology company. Michael is co-author of Negotiating International Commercial Contracts (Eleven Publishing 2020) and International Arbitration and Mediation: A Practical Guide (Kluwer Law Int'l 2010), he is a regular contributor to the Kluwer Arbitration Blog and teaches legal writing at Bocconi Law School in Milan. Michael is currently the Chair of the Governing Body for Dispute Resolution of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), a board member and former president of the International Mediation Institute (IMI), and was chair of the Global Pound Conference in 2016-17 (http://globalpound.org/). In 2017, Arbitral Women recognized Michael as a Champion of Change for promoting diversity in international arbitration.