Prof Crenguta Leaua

Crenguta LEAUA is a professor of new technologies law, comparative alternative dispute resolution law, and business law at the Faculty of Cybernetics, Informatics, and Statistics for Economy, Faculty of Accountancy and Management Information Systems, and Faculty of Law of the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. She has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University, and a guest lecturer at Georgetown University, State University of Phoenix, Arizona, Florida International University in Miami, Science Po in Paris as well as the Blockchain Summer School of Lugano’s PlanB. She holds a Ph.D. degree from the Bucharest University Faculty of Law, a habilitation degree from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, and is an alumnus of the executive education programs of Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government (Emerging Leaders, 2016), of London School of Economics (Cryptocurrency and Disruption, 2017) and of the MIT- Presencing Institute (U-Lab – Leading from the Emerging Future, 2021).She also practices law as counsel and arbitrator and participates in international interdisciplinary complex problem-solving teams. She is a past vice-president of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC Paris), currently a member of the board of directors of The Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center (SVAMC), and chair of the SVAMC Initiative for Arbitration and Mediation for Blockchain-based Transactions. An experienced international technology-related dispute resolution specialist, she is an expert of the United National Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) for the UNCITRAL Work on technology-related disputes proposed by the governments of Israel and Japan. She is a member of the List of the World’s Leading Technology Neutrals – the Tech List®, ranked as a Thought Leader in International Arbitration (WWL Legal), listed by arbitral institutions in Europe, the US, and Asia, including the list for the arbitrators of the EU for the disputes arising out of the free trade agreements. She currently is the director of The Swiss Institute for Alternative Thinking,