Andrzej Szumański, Ph.D.
Professor, head of the Department of Private Economic Law at the Jagiellonian University, lawyer. He co-authored the Draft law on the Commercial Companies Code (2000) and the 1999 Offset Law. Arbitrator and member of the Arbitration Council at the Court of Arbitration, Polish Chamber of Commerce in Warsaw, President of the Stock Exchange Court at the Warsaw Stock Exchange. He has participated in many restructuring and privatization projects and served on numerous supervisory boards. He is an author of textbooks and commentaries on corporate and securities law. In 2005–2013 he was a member of the UNCITRAL in charge of developing Arbitration and Transparency Rules for investment arbitration procedures.