Filip Balcerzak, LL.M. (2011, Canada), Ph.D. (2016, Poland), Ph.D. (2024, Spain), attorney at law (Poland, Spain). Filip is a partner at SSW law firm (Poland) and an academic (Brunel University London, England and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland).

Filip has served as an arbitrator in over forty arbitrations, as a presiding arbitrator, side arbitrator, sole arbitrator and emergency arbitrator.

The European Commission nominated him as a candidate arbitrator and expert on trade and sustainability in disputes regarding trade agreements between the EU and third countries.

Filip authored two monographies on international investment law:

• “Investor – State Arbitration and Human Rights” (Brill 2017, https://brill.com/display/title/34356), and
• “Renewable Energy Arbitration – Quo Vadis? Implications of the Spanish Saga for International Investment Law” (Brill 2023, https://brill.com/display/title/61784), co-edited a book on diversity in international arbitration:
• “Diversity in International Arbitration. Why it Matters and How to Sustain It” (Edward Elgar 2022), and authored numerous articles on international investment law and arbitration, including:
• “The Role of Customary International Law in International Investment Law Remedies. The Curious Case of Natural Resources” (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/custom-and-its-interpretation-in-international-investment-law/role-of-customary-international-law-in-international-investment-law-remedies/C6C39A8C0A6EC48509A06574F3777E68),
• “Horthel v Poland: Fair and Equitable Treatment Embodies the Rule of Law, Whereas ‘Tax’ Is Not Always a Tax” (https://doi.org/10.1093/icsidreview/siac024),
• “Human Rights-Compatible International Investment Agreements: A Voice From Central & Eastern Europe and Central Asia” (http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/bhj.2023.3).