Josefa Sicard-Mirabal has taken up her new position as Director, Arbitration and ADR, North America, for the ICC International Court of Arbitration. She succeeds Lorraine M. Brennan, who is returning to private practice with a leading international law firm in the United States.

Ms Sicard-Mirabal graduated in law from the Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra in the Dominican Republic and continued her studies in the US at Fordham University School of Law. She began her legal career as judge and subsequently chief justice in the Dominican Republic. Since 1989 she has been a practising attorney with major law firms in the US, specializing in international arbitration and litigation, and international business transactions including mergers and acquisitions and capital market transactions. Ms Sicard-Mirabal is admitted to practise in both the Dominican Republic and the State of New York and is the founder and chair of Dominicans on Wall Street, a non-profit organization that serves as a liaison between Dominican companies seeking access to US and international capital markets and US companies wishing to invest in the Dominican Republic. Ms Sicard-Mirabal speaks English, French and Spanish.

As Director of ICC Arbitration and ADR in North America, Ms Sicard-Mirabal will represent and promote ICC dispute resolution services in the US and Canada. She is assisted by Nancy M. Thevenin, the Court's Deputy Director, Arbitration and ADR, North America. Both Ms Sicard-Mirabal and Ms Thevenin may be reached at the offices of ICC's US national committee, the US Council for International Business (USCIB).

Contact details:

Josefa Sicard-Mirabal
jsicard-mirabal@uscib.org
Tel. +1 212 703 5065
Fax + 1 212 575 0327

Nancy M. Thevenin
nthevenin@uscib.org
Tel. +1 212 703 5060
Fax +1 212 575 0327