Ioana KNOLL-TUDOR
Ioana is a partner at Addleshaw Goddard and specialises in international commercial and investment arbitration. Ioana is acting both as counsel and arbitrator (she was the first Romanian national to have been appointed as arbitrator on an ICSID tribunal).
Ioana has an extensive knowledge of the CEE region, having dealt and worked with every Eastern European jurisdiction, and having spent 10 years in the Warsaw and Budapest offices of an international law firm. Ioana is Romanian and is admitted to the Paris and Madrid bars.
Since 2020, Ioana is also a member of the Paris Arbitration Week Organising Committee. She is a founding member of the Romanian chapter of the Club Espanol de Arbitraje (CEA). Her PhD was published by Oxford University Press with the title « The Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard in International Foreign Investment Law » and is a reference in the field of international arbitration. A second edition is planned for 2024.
After more than a decade of ballet, Ioana is now an avid jogger and cross-fit fan, always starting the day in sports shoes before changing to high hills.