Veronika BURACHEUSKAYA

Veronika is an international arbitration lawyer and researcher. Her research areas include investment and commercial arbitration, public policy, public health issues in international arbitration, participation of third parties in international disputes and access of Indigenous Peoples and local communities to arbitration.

Before starting her Ph.D. reserach, Veronika acted as a lawyer in commercial and investment disputes, representing oil & gas, energy companies and states in arbitrations under ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, SCC and other rules. THe cases included ExxonMobil's 1 billion USD claims in relation to one of the biggest Pacific oil & gas projects; investor-state arbitration involving complex issues of state succession to a bilateral investment treaty; assignment of investor's treaty claims to a third party; construction of a gas pipeline and offshore oil platform, expropriation of a transportation company and others.

Currently, Veronika is conducting Ph.D. research with a focus on investor-state arbitration and public health policy. She also participates as a researcher in an international multidisciplinary research project on Public Health and International Investment Agreements Health-IIA (in cooperation with the University of Sydney) and a study of Indigenous Peoples' rights in international arbitration.

She is a co-founder of the RWA Association created to promote gender diversity in international arbitration (GAR Awards 2021 nomination in Equal Representation). She also acts as a moot court arbitrator (Foreign Direct Investment Moot, Willem C. Vis Moot).