Nudrat E. Piracha

Nudrat Ejaz Piracha is a partner at Andersen Legal in Pakistan and is one of Pakistan’s leading international arbitration practitioners with more than 25 years of experience representing sovereign states, multinational corporations, and investors in complex cross-border disputes. She has acted as counsel, arbitrator, tribunal secretary, mediator, and ADR policy advisor in proceedings under ICSID, ICC, SIAC, DIFC-LCIA, SCC, UNCITRAL, and other international rules.

She holds a S.J.D. (Doctor of Juridical Science) from The George Washington University Law School, an LL.M. from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. She is also a Solicitor-Advocate of England & Wales and a Weinstein JAMS International Senior Fellow. Her professional experience includes advising governments, state-owned enterprises, and private sector clients on treaty disputes, commercial arbitration, infrastructure projects, and public-private partnerships.

Nudrat currently serves as CEO of the International Centre for Appropriate Dispute Resolution and Prevention (ICADRP) and as tribunal secretary with JAMS in the United States. Nudrat is a recognized authority in international arbitration and dispute resolution. She is the author of Arbitration Law of Pakistan (Kluwer Law International, 2020), and a frequent contributor to international arbitration publications. Her practice spans investor-state arbitration, international commercial arbitration, mediation, negotiation, and the development of ADR institutions and frameworks.