Robert H. Smit is a Partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, in the Firm's Litigation Department, where he Co-Chairs the Firm's International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Practice. Mr. Smit is also Adjunct Professor of International Arbitration at Columbia Law School; Co-Editorin-Chief of the American Review of International Arbitration; Member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration; and Adviser to the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Third) of the U.S. Law of International Arbitration. He is also former U.S. Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration; Chair of the New York City Bar Association's International Commercial Disputes Committee; Chair of the CPR Arbitration Committee; and Vice-Chair of the IBA's  International Arbitration and ADR Committee.

Emma Lindsay is a Senior Associate in Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's Litigation Department, where she concentrates her practice on international litigation and arbitration. She acts as counsel in arbitrations conducted under all of the major international commercial arbitration rules and has significant experience in investment treaty arbitration under bilateral and multilateral investment treaties. As part of her international practice, Ms. Lindsay advises on public international law matters including treaty negotiation, territorial and maritime boundary disputes, and international human rights and humanitarian law. Ms. Lindsay is Adjunct Professor of Public International Law at the New School University. She is a former Law Clerk at the International Court of Justice to then President of the Court Judge Shi Jiuyong of China and to Judge Pieter H. Kooijmans of the Netherlands.