Our Keynote Speaker

Catherine Amirfar is a litigation partner at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and Co-Chair of the firm’s Public International Law Group. Her practice focuses on public international law, international commercial and treaty arbitration, and international and complex commercial litigation. She is ranked among the top international law practitioners in the world.

Catherine spent two years as the Counselor on International Law to the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State during the Obama Administration. She was also recently named President of the American Society of International Law. She has written extensively on international arbitration, the relationship between international law and U.S. domestic law, international human rights and humanitarian law, investor-state disputes, and the law of consular and diplomatic immunities.