Vera Van Houtte
Independent arbitrator
A.Smetsplein 2D (b 402)
3000 Leuven
Belgium
T : +32 16 48 94 64
[email protected]
Vera Van Houtte holds a Dr. Juris degree from the University of Leuven in Belgium and a
LL.M. from Harvard Law School. She is specialised in several areas of law: construction and
engineering, industrial projects, public procurement, and energy law, as well as arbitration.
From 1989 till the end of 2012, she was a partner at the Brussels office of the Benelux law firm
Stibbe where she headed the construction and industrial law department. She was involved in
major construction and renovation projects in Belgium as well as abroad, acting as counsel
and litigator for engineering firms, contractors, developers and their clients, both private
enterprises and public authorities.
From international construction work, she moved into international arbitration, first as counsel,
later as arbitrator. Since retiring from Stibbe, she acts exclusively as an arbitrator (ICC, ICSID,
LCIA, DIAC, UNCITRAL, ad hoc).
Memberships and functions
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Vice-President of the ICC Court of Arbitration (2009 - )
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Vice-Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the IBA (2012– )
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Member of the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association (2009 – )
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Member of the Board of Trustees of Dubai International Arbitration (2012- )
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Member of the Court of the Jerusalem Arbitration Centre (2013-
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Member of the Board of Directors of CEPANI (2011 – )
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Member for the CIArb’s Arbitration and Review Panels (PRP) for Continental Europe
(2011-
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Member of the Editorial Board of the Global Arbitration Review (2007 – )
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Member of the Editorial Advisory Panel of the ICE’s journal “Management and
Procurement Law” (2011 – 2013)
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Chartered Arbitrator of the Chartered Institute for Arbitrators
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Vice-President of the Court of the LCIA (2003 - 2006)
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Member of the Court of the LCIA (2000 - 2006)
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Member of the ICC Working Group on Construction Arbitration (1998 - 2001)
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President of the Cepani Working Group on arbitration and construction law
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Vice-Chair former Committee T (“International Construction Projects”) of the IBA (1999 2001)
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Founder and Past President of the Subcommittee for European Construction Law of the
former Committee T of the IBA (1989 - 1993)
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Lecturer on European Public Procurement and on Environmental Due Diligence in the
Pallas Programme of the Center for Postgraduate Legal Education of the law faculty of
Nijmegem in the Netherlands (1995 - 2002)
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Member of the Steering Committee of W87 - Task Force on Liability and Insurance of CIB
(Comité International du Bâtiment) (1986 - 2000)
Vera has published various articles in Dutch, French and English on Belgian and European
construction law and on (international) arbitration. She also regularly takes part in
conferences as speaker both in Belgium and abroad.

William J. Jackson - American Bar Association