Professor Kryvoi is a co-director of the Arbitration Lab. He is the Senior Fellow in International Economic Law and Director of the Investment Treaty Forum at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London. He is also an Of Counsel at Keidan Harrisson in London.
Before moving to academia, Professor Kryvoi practised law with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London, Morgan Lewis & Bockius in Washington, DC and Baker & McKenzie in Saint Petersburg. His main areas of expertise include International Arbitration, International Investment Law, Law and Policy in Russia and the CIS, Reforms and Government Excellence, Economic Crimes, Corruption and Bribery.
Professor Kryvoi is currently engaged in a number of law reform and capacity-building projects for the United Nations, governmental agencies and academic institutions. He is listed as an arbitrator by several institutions, including the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, the Asian International Arbitration Centre and the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration.
He conducted training on international arbitration at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Practicing Law Institute, and for the UK and other governments, universities and law firms. He also participates in the meetings of the UNCITRAL Working Group III: Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform.
Professor Kryvoi has authored a number of articles and monographs, primarily in the area of international dispute resolution and has also conducted several empirical studies in partnership with leading law firms. His recently published works include Private or Public Adjudication? Procedure, Substance and Legitimacy (Leiden Journal of International Law, 2021), International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (Kluwer Law International, 2023, forthcoming), Public and Private Governance of Cybersecurity: Challenges and Potential (Cambridge University Press 2023, forthcoming).
He is also a co-chair of expert group convened by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime tasked with analysing the allegations of corruption in investor-State disputes.
Professor Kryvoi is also a creator of online courses International Investment Law and Dispute Resolution and the Annual ISDS Update.
