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Ugo Draetta is Past Professor of International Law at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy. He received his PhD in International Law (1968) and graduated from the Academy of American and International Law, at the International and Comparative Law Center, University of Texas at Dallas (1976). In 2005 he taught courses at the Hague Academy of International Law.
During his professional experience, he has held the position of Vice-President and Senior Counsel-International of General Electric Co., USA (1987-1999). He is a member of the Board of Directors of major Italian companies.
In 2000, he started his independent arbitration practice. He has been involved in about 80 arbitration proceedings (ICC, UNCITRAL, Milan, Vienna, Dubai, and Madrid international arbitration chambers, ad hoc arbitrations) as President, sole arbitrator or co-arbitrator. His areas of expertise include international law; lex mercatoria; EU law; antitrust law; conflicts of laws and procedure; construction contracts; agreements for the sale of goods; merger and acquisition agreements; shareholders’ and joint venture agreements; R&D agreements; distribution agreements.
Matteo M. Winkler is an Associate Professor of Business and Human Rights at HEC Paris, a top-ranked global school of management. Since he graduated in law with Professor Draetta at the Catholic University of Milan with a thesis on the international regime of e-commerce (2001), he has published almost a hundred articles in peer and student-reviewed journals in Italian, English, and French on various subjects, mostly relating to public and private international law, especially in the field of international business transactions.
He has worked as a litigator in different law firms in Milan, Italy, specializing in civil and commercial litigation and arbitration. While pursuing his career as a lawyer, he obtained a PhD in international economic law from Bocconi University (2007) and a Master of Laws (LLM) from Yale Law School (2007). All the papers he submitted for his courses at Yale have been published in top American law journals such as the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law, the Berkeley Journal of International Law, the Loyola L.A. International and Comparative Law Review, and the Journal of World Trade. His doctoral thesis, dedicated to the international regulation of multinational enterprises, was published by Giuffrè (now Lefebvre Giuffrè) in 2008.
In parallel with teaching international law and EU law at Bocconi School of Law and training professionals on various aspects of international business transactions, Mr. Winkler served as arbitrator and counsel in several proceedings until he moved to Paris to become a full-time academic at HEC Paris first as an Assistant Professor (2014-2020) and subsequently as an Associate Professor (2020).
