Andrew Barton, Division Vice President, American Arbitration Association
Andrew Barton serves as Vice President of the American Arbitration Association’s San Antonio Regional Office, bringing more than 25 years of experience in dispute resolution, case administration, and industry engagement. He has led regional and national initiatives in arbitration and mediation, trained hundreds of neutrals, and advised legal and corporate stakeholders across the energy, aerospace, and insurance sectors. Andrew is known for his collaborative leadership style and deep commitment to advancing effective, accessible ADR processes.

Michael Murphy, Partner, Winston & Strawn LLP
Michael is an accomplished litigator and first-chair trial attorney who counsels and represents clients in a broad range of disputes.

He has served as trial counsel in over 30 contested matters in state courts, federal courts, arbitrations, and administrative proceedings throughout the United States. His practice is focused on a wide range of complex commercial disputes and also includes significant experience in the defense of toxic tort, products liability, environmental claims, catastrophic event, and insurance coverage litigation.

Frederic Sourgens, Director - Tulane Center for Energy Law, Tulane University Law School 
Frédéric G. Sourgens is the James McCulloch Chair in Energy Law at Tulane Law School and Director of the Tulane Center for Energy Law.

He joined the Tulane Law Faculty in 2023. Prior to teaching at Tulane, Sourgens served as the Senator Robert J. Dole Distinguished Professor of Law at Washburn University School of Law.

Sourgens is the co-lead investigator with OPEC’s General Legal Counsel, Leonardo Sempértegui of the energy transition policy and regulatory briefs project for the Organization of Petroleum Producing States (OPEC). He is the Chair of the Southwest Institute for International and Comparative Law and a member of the Executive Committee and chair of the Academic Outreach Committee for the Institute for Energy Law.

Sourgens is active in the governance of the American Society of International Law, where he currently serves a three-year term on its executive council. He holds multiple editorial appointments including Editor-in-Chief of Oxford University Press' Investment Claims reporter of international arbitral awards between states and foreign investors and serving on the editorial boards of the Brill Research Perspectives in International Investment Law and Arbitration as well as the American Review of International Arbitration (Columbia University School of Law).

Before entering academia, Sourgens practiced law at Fulbright & Jaworski LLP in Houston (now Norton Rose Fulbright) and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP in Washington DC (now Milbank).

Tatiana Polevshchikova, Counsel, Dyakin Gortsunyan Partners
Tatiana is a Counsel at DGP, one of the major dispute resolution teams in the CIS Region. Prior to DGP, she worked at international law firms and as a Deputy Head of Legal at the Asian International Arbitration Centre (Malaysia). Tatiana’s experience covers international construction, corporate and contractual disputes under arbitration rules of the ICC, LCIA, SAC (former SCAI), AIAC and UNCITRAL. Tatiana gained unique experience in the resolution of disputes in Southeast Asia in course of her five-year work in the region. She supervised more than 200 arbitration matters, consulted on a wide range of legal issues arising in course of arbitration, mediation and statutory adjudication widely used in the construction industry. Further, she was involved in a number of legislative and cross-institutional initiatives. Tatiana is a Vice-Chair of the IPBA’s Corporate Counsel Committee and Regional Ambassador of HK45 in the CIS Region.