Ucheora Onwuamaegbu*

Previous Work

For more than a decade, Uche was Senior Counsel at the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), in Washington, DC. Prior to ICSID, he was a lawyer at the United Nations Compensation Commission, Geneva, having been in private practice in Nigeria and the UK before that.

Professional Activities

Uche currently provides advisory services to the State of Kuwait’s National Focal Point for environmental remediation. He is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for international Governance Innovation  and member of the Panel of Arbitrators of ICSID and CAS, Lausanne, as well as those of various regional arbitration institutions.

Publications, Presentations & Recognitions

Uche has written and spoken extensively on disputes between governments and foreign investors around the world.

Recent Publications

• “International Dispute Settlement Mechanisms,” Arbitration under International Investment Agreements: A guide to key issues, 2nd. Ed., Oxford University Press, 2018
• “Ad hoc Arbitration,” Elgar Encyclopedia of International Economic Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017
• “Africa and the Changing Landscape of Investor State Arbitration,”  ICCA Congress Series No. 19, Wolters Kluwer, 2017
• “The Dispute Resolution Trends in Treaties Affecting African/Asian Investors and African/Asian States,” TDM Special edition on Africa, TDM 4, 2016
• "Limiting the Participation of Developed States: Impacts on Investor State Arbitration," CIGI Investor State Arbitration Series, Paper No. 11, August 2016
• “Directness of Claims by Foreign Companies in Remote Locations,” War Reparations and the UN Compensation Commission, Oxford University Press, 2015
• “FDI, the Global Crisis and Sustainable Recovery,” Transnational Corporations, vol.20, UNCTAD, 2011
• “International Dispute Settlement Mechanisms, Arbitration under International Investment Agreements,”  A guide to key issues, Oxford University Press, 2010
• “Using Treaties to Determine Rules of Procedure in Investor-State Arbitration,” The Future of Investment Arbitration, Oxford University Press, 2009
• “The Role of ADR in Investor State Dispute Settlement: the ICSID Experience,” AAA/ICC/ICSID Joint colloquium, New York, November 2005

Recent Presentations

• “Investment Arbitration involving African Parties - and the proposed changes to ICSID Rules,” CRCICA / Al Tamimi & Co Panel on Arbitration in Africa, Dubai Arbitration Week, 14 November 2018
• “Substantive Provisions in Investment Treaties (FET, NT & MFN),” ICSID / CIGI Interactive Meeting of African Investment Treaty Negotiators, The World Bank, 28 September 2018
• "The International Regime for Enforcing Rights of Foreign Investors in Emerging Economies," The MIDA Institutional Investor Advisory Council Meeting at NASP’s 29th Annual Pension and Financial Services Conference, Houston, Texas, June 2018
• “ICSID, Investor-State Arbitration, and the UN Compensation Commission, International Economic Law, Business and Policy LLM Colloquium,”  Stanford Law School, April 2018
• “Conducting International Arbitration in Africa,” Meeting of the International Arbitration Club of New York, December 2017
• Panelist, “Legitimacy of the International Arbitration Process,” Institute for Transnational Arbitration workshop, Dallas, Texas, June 2017
• Moderator,  “Perspectives of foreign counsel,” SOAS Arbitration in Africa Conference Series: Rethinking the Role of Courts and Judges in supporting Arbitration in Africa, Lagos, June 2016
• “A Developing Country perspective on the Changing landscape of Investor State Arbitration,” Panel on Investment Arbitration in Africa and Beyond: What Does the Future Hold?” ICCA Congress, Mauritius, 9 May 2016
• “Legal Issues from the Implementation of KERP,” Conference on Environmental Effects of Armed Conflict - International Legal Dialogue – Middle East North Africa, Amman, Jordan,” 13 December 2015
• Panelist, “Lessons for Africa from CETA, TPP, TTIP, and Beyond,” Annual Conference, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Abuja, Nigeria, November 3, 2015
• Panelist, King's College London, Shearman & Sterling, and BIICL's Investment Treaty Forum, London, United Kingdom, October 29, 2015
• Panelist, “Investor State Arbitration between Developed Democracies: A Policy under Challenge,” Center for International Governance Initiative, Ottawa, Canada, September 25, 2015
• Panelist, “Refining ICSID’s Procedures,” Investment Treaty Forum of the British Institute for International and Comparative Law (BIICL), London, United Kingdom, September 10, 2015