The International Court of Arbitration has announced the appointment of Simon Greenberg as Deputy Secretary General. Mr Greenberg will assume his position in mid January 2008.

Mr Greenberg is currently a senior associate with the law firm Dechert LLP in Paris, representing clients mostly in ICC arbitrations. Formerly he served as Deputy Secretary General of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration and helped establish the Asia-Pacific Regional Arbitration Group. He also lectured and chaired international arbitration in the advanced law studies department at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia and previously worked as Assistant Counsel to the Secretariat of the ICC Court.

He replaces Jennifer Kirby who will leave the ICC on 19 December 2007.

Source: ICC