CIAO DATE: 04/2012
February 2012
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
Investment arbitration has a remarkably poor record on representation of women. This calls for reform of the appointments process for arbitrators, who make important policy choices in the context of global governance. In 249 known investment treaty cases until May 2010, there were 631 appointments. Of these, 41 were appointments of women -- just 6.5% of all appointments. Worse, of the 247 individuals appointed as arbitrators across all cases, only 10 were women. Women thus comprised 4% of those serving as arbitrators.
Resource link: The (lack of) women arbitrators in investment treaty arbitration [PDF] - 91K