Three Crowns LLP

International Commercial and Investment Treaty Arbitration

Gaëtan is a founding partner of Three Crowns. He has close to 25 years of experience serving as advocate or arbitrator in both commercial and investment treaty arbitrations.

Before entering private practice, he served as a Legal Advisor at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, where he advised dispute settlement panels adjudicating disputes between sovereigns across a range of industry sectors.

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Gaëtan is a past Senior Co-Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association – a leading standard-setter for the practice of international arbitration. He is a member of the SIAC Court of Arbitration and was appointed to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators by the Kingdom of Belgium. He teaches investment treaty law at King’s College School of Law in London and Columbia Law School in New York.

Columbia Law School, J.S.D., 2001 – New York Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellow

Columbia Law School, LL.M., 2000 – New York Herman Finkelstein Fellow

Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Graduate Diploma in International Relations, 1997 – Bologna

Catholic University of Leuven, Lic. Jur., 1996 – Leuven magna cum laude

University of Antwerp, Cand. Jur., 1993 – Antwerp cum laude