Iuliana Iancu

Iuliana Iancu has over fifteen years of experience in international arbitration. She has acted as arbitrator (presiding, party-appointed, sole arbitrator, emergency arbitrator), counsel and tribunal secretary. Her experience includes several dozen high-stakes, high-value and complex international commercial and investment arbitrations, both ad hoc and under a variety of arbitration rules (CEPANI, ICC, ICSID, LCIA, NAI, Polish Chamber of Commerce, Swiss Arbitration Centre, UNCITRAL, VIAC). These spanned various industry sectors, such as banking, telecommunications, insurance, energy, infrastructure, information technology, construction, mining, distribution, luxury and pharmaceuticals. Ms. Iancu’s arbitration experience includes disputes involving both States and private parties, as well as various procedural and substantive laws. 

Ms. Iancu is also a lecturer at the University of Bucharest’s International Arbitration LL.M., teaching Comparative International Commercial Arbitration.

Ms. Iancu is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, ICCA and the CEPANI. She was a member of the ICC Working Group on Leveraging Technology for Fair, Effective and Efficient International Arbitration Proceedings. Ms. Iancu is a founder and Vice-Chair of the Board of ArbCEE (the Arbitration Association for Central and Eastern Europe), a co-founder of the Young Romanian Arbitration Practitioners and of the ARBinBRIEF initiative. Ms. Iancu cooperates with multiple other international arbitration groups (Young ICCA, Young ITA, Arbitral Women, AIJA, CEPANI40) through various diversity initiatives and mentoring programs. Ms. Iancu is also a founding member of the Romanian Chapter of the Spanish Arbitration Club and the Vice President of the Belgian Chapter of the Spanish Arbitration Club.

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• Columbia University School of Law, New York, NY, LL.M. (May 2012) – Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
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• University of Bucharest, School of Law, BA in Law (2008) – class valedictorian

• Bucharest (Romania)
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• Registered with the Brussels Bar (E List)

Ms. Iancu has been ranked by Who’s Who Legal – Arbitration 2021 to 2025, with peers describing her as “one of the rising stars of the new generation of arbitrators”, “a brilliantly talented attorney with deep knowledge of international commercial and investment treaty arbitration”, “sharp under pressure and very skilled at managing with complex matters” and a “super-prepared and very clear lawyer”.

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• Romanian
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• English 
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• French 
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• Italian (beginner)

• Romanian 

• Lecturer, LL.M program, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law (2021 – present)
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• Lawyer, Hanotiau & van den Berg, Brussels (2012-2025)
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• Lawyer, Stoica & Asociatii, Bucharest (2009-2011)

• Member, ICC Commission for Arbitration and ADR
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• Member, ICC Working Group drafting the Report on Leveraging Technology for Fair, Effective and Efficient International Arbitration Proceedings (2021)
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• Member, SIAC Reserve Panel of Arbitrators
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• Founder and Vice-Chair of the Board, Arbitration Association of Central and Eastern Europe (ArbCEE)
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• Founder, Young Romanian Arbitration Practitioners (YRAP)
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• Founder, ARBinBRIEF initiative 
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• Editor, CEPANI Newsletter