Stanimir Alexandrov

Stanimir A Alexandrov focuses his practice in the areas of international dispute resolution, including investor-state arbitration and international commercial arbitration, and resolution of trade disputes before the World Trade Organization (WTO). He has represented private parties and governments in arbitration before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), as well as in ICC, UNCITRAL and AAA international arbitrations. He has also represented governments in WTO disputes. Mr Alexandrov has been appointed to the ICSID’s Panel of Arbitrators and Panel of Conciliators and serves as an arbitrator in a number of cases under the arbitration rules of ICSID, the London Court of International Arbitration and UNCITRAL. He has appeared as an expert witness in international arbitration on investment treaty interpretation. Mr Alexandrov was vice minister of foreign affairs of Bulgaria, where he managed Bulgaria’s relations with the European Union, the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and NATO and was responsible for all legal work of the Foreign Service. Prior to that, he served as deputy chief of mission of the Embassy of Bulgaria in Washington, DC, where he negotiated trade and investment agreements and worked with the World Bank and the IMF. He is a professor at the George Washington University Law School, where he teaches courses on international law and dispute settlement. Mr Alexandrov speaks and publishes widely and is listed as a leading practitioner in industry publications such as Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500 and PLC Cross-Border Dispute Resolution Handbook.