Law (ITA); and the board of trustees of the Institute of International Commercial Law of Pace University School of Law. Fluent in Dutch, English, and French, Albert Jan van den Berg has authored and edited numerous publications on various topics of international arbitration. An extended list of publications and related publications can be found in the following websites: http://www.hvdb.com and http://www.newyorkconvention.org. Albert Jan van den Berg is particularly known for his commentary on the New York Convention, “The New York Arbitration Convention of 1958 – Towards a Uniform Judicial Interpretation”, originally his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Professor Pieter Sanders. Albert Jan van den Berg currently serves as the General Editor of Yearbook Commercial Arbitration, and of ICCA Congress Series and is a member of the editorial boards of London’s Global Counsel, Global Arbitration Review and Rotterdam’s Tijdschrift voor Arbitrage. Albert Jan van den Berg is also the author of the website http://www.newyorkconvention.org, a website that provides access to information regarding the New York Convention in general, its history, its interpretation and application by the courts, a bibliography, and other relevant matters such as a “draft” for a revised New York Convention, authored by Albert Jan van den Berg himself. The website also provides easy-to-use tools to find case law on how the courts have interpreted and applied the New York Convention's provisions (more than 1700 court decisions from more than 65 countries), such information being provided in association with ICCA and Kluwer Arbitration. Van den Berg was named the world's leading commercial arbitrator by the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers in 2006 and 2011. In 2013 he received the “Best Prepared and Most Responsive Arbitrator” award by Global Arbitration Review. Criticism With regard to the controversy surrounding Investor-State Arbitration, van den Berg was named as a member of an elite group of 15 arbitrators who handle most investment treaty arbitral proceedings in a report by NGO Corporate Europe Observatory. According to the report, van den Berg supported contradictory outcomes in two cases brought against Argentina following the state's economic crisis in 2001/2002 even though the facts and reasoning of defence of both lawsuits were nearly identical. However, the criticism does not seem to be justified. Professor Van den Berg never issues dissenting opinions and opposes their use by party-appointed arbitrators in investor-State arbitration. Within that perspective, one cannot attribute the decision of an entire tribunal to one