B.A., with honors, University of Southern California; M.P.P, J.D., University of Michigan.

Until he retired from Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, Mark Kantor was a partner in the Corporate and Project Finance Groups of the Firm. He currently serves as an arbitrator and mediator. He teaches as an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center (Recipient, Fahy Award for Outstanding Adjunct Professor). Mr. Kantor serves as a member of the World Bank Group Sanctions Board. Additionally, he is Editor-in-Chief of the online journal Transnational Dispute Management.

Mr. Kantor is a former Member of the Council of the American Arbitration Association and a former Member of the AAA Board of Directors, former Chair and Vice Chair of the DC Bar International Dispute Resolution and International Investment Committees, and a Chartered Arbitrator of The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is honored in Who’s Who in America; Who’s Who in the World; Who’s Who in American Law; International Who’s Who, Commercial Arbitration; Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who; Chambers USA, International Arbitrators; Best Lawyers in America (International Arbitration; Washington, D.C.); Super Lawyers; U.S. News & World Report, Tier 1 International Arbitration; Best Lawyers 2013 Washington DC International Arbitration – Governmental “Lawyer of the Year.” Recipient, ArbitralWomen Honorable Man Award (2011).

Mr. Kantor is also a member of the Editorial Board of Global Arbitration Review, the Board of Editors of the Journal of Damages in International Arbitration, the Editorial Board of the Journal of Technology in International Arbitration, the Editorial Board of Arbitration – The International Journal of Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute Management and the ADR Advisory Board of the International Law Institute. Among other publications, Mr. Kantor is the author of Valuation for Arbitration: Compensation Standards, Valuation Methods and Expert Evidence (Kluwer 2008), named Best Book of 2008 in the OGEMID Awards, co-editor of Kantor, Nolan & Sauvant, Reports of Overseas Private Investment Corporation Determinations (Oxford University Press 2011) and author of “A Code of Conduct for Party-Appointed Experts in International Arbitration – Can One be Found?” 26 Arbitration International 323 (2010), named Best International Dispute Resolution Article of 2010 in the OGEMID Awards.