The International Energy Disputes Summit

He sits on the panels of ICDR, SIAC, CIETAC, AIAC, SCCA, ADGM and BCDR, chairs the ICCA–New York City Bar–CPR Working Group on Cybersecurity, and chaired the 2022 ICCA Congress in Edinburgh.

He served as General Secretary of the Labour Party from 2011 to 2018. Created a life peer in 2018, he has served on the Lords front bench, including as a spokesperson for business and trade. He also chairs the Nuclear Industry Association and is a Commissioner of the UK Hydrogen Policy Commission. Lord McNicol currently serves as an Hon. Patron of the Labour Middle East Council.

At home, he worked in the Foreign Office, Cabinet Office and No. 10, including as a Private Secretary to UK Government Ministers. Throughout his 35 year diplomatic career, Nicholas Hopton focused on advancing UK interests and building partnerships, including in some of the world’s most challenging environments. He brought his leadership and diplomatic expertise to bear in addressing international challenges and promoting global security, stability and prosperity.

Today, Nicholas Hopton serves as the Director General of the Middle East Association, a UK-based organisation founded in 1961 that promotes trade, investment, policy dialogue, and cultural understanding between the UK and the Middle East & North Africa

He has sat as presiding, sole and co-arbitrator under CRCICA, ICC, DIAC, DIFC-LCIA, ADCCAC, BCDR, UNCITRAL and Swiss Rules, and lectures at Sorbonne Cairo and Paris 1.

He met and built relationships with all the key political, security and economic players in Libya and in the international community. He also managed the return of the British Embassy from Tunis to Tripoli.
Since retiring, Peter has worked as a consultant and adviser. He is the Chairman of the Libya British Business Council, chair of The Human Edge (a mentoring company) and an adviser to the Stelios Foundation.

Christof’s most recent commercial expertise is in energy, specifically oil and gas, and asset allocation, focussed on macroeconomic and geopolitical trends. He currently is as an advisor to companies and governments globally and an adjunct Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, New York (since 2019); he was Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School (2019-21).

From 2014-19, Christof served as the Global Head of Research at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, creating and managing ADIA’s first global research team and responsible for economic, energy and geopolitical analysis across asset classes. Earlier, he was Group Chief Economist and Vice President of BP plc (2005-14), credited with a significant contribution to the global debate on energy, climate change, and the various links between energy and economic development.

Daniel has been appointed by lawyers, insurers, and corporations in various occasions, to analyse different types of complex claims. In the Construction sector Daniel has been appointed as a Delay Expert, tasked with the assessment of the timeline of a project, both in a prospective manner (to suggest accelerating actions and monitoring of a construction Project), and in a retrospective manner (to examine the actions or inactions that could have generated delays in a project as well as cost overruns).