Stefano Azzali, after having practiced law in Italy, South Africa and United States, Stefano Azzali joined the Chamber of Arbitration of Milan in 1988, where he now acts as Secretary General. He is also Secretary General of the Italy-China Business Mediation Center (Beijing-Milan) and he sits as Reporter for Italy on the Board of Reporters of the Center for International Law (ITA), the Editorial Advisory Board of “Arbitration CD-ROM,” edited by Kluwer Law International, and the International Advisory Board of the International Arbitration Center of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (VIAC) in Wien, Austria. Since May 2009, Mr. Azzali has acted as Secretary-Treasurer of the International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions (IFCAI). He is a member of the panel of arbitrators of various international arbitration institutions and is a visiting professor at Bocconi University, Law School, in Milan, where he teaches Domestic and International Arbitration Law, and, since 2012, he is Fellow at the Centre for Transnational Litigation and Commercial Law, New York University, School of Law. From 2001 to 2006, he chaired the Disciplinary Commission of the Italian Football Federation, where he is now member of its Federal Court of Justice.
