Work address:

Department of Private Law, Russian Academy of Foreign Trade

Pudovkina str., 4-a Home:

119285 Moscow, Russian Federation tel. fax (7 095) 137 84 66

tel. (7 095) 147 45 00 E-mail vavt@dol.ru E-mail: fedstudy@online.ru

PROFESSIONAL POSITION

2003 – Full professor, Attestat of Ministry of High Education of Russian Federation

2002 – Doctor of Juridical Sciences (second and highest scientific degree in Russia), Thesis: “International Commercial Contracts: Theory and Practice of Unification”, defended at the Institute of legislation and comparative legal studies at the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow

2002 – present - Member, The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), London, Great Britain

2000 - present - Member, Arbitration Court of the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, France

1999 - present - Visiting professor, University Paris 12, teaching Russian Business Law, DESS program (one month each year, in French)

2000 – present – Visiting professor, Institute of enterprises' administration, University Nancy-2, teaching Russian Business Law, DESS program (one month each year, in French)

1995 - present - Arbitrator, Arbitration, Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry

1989 - present - Arbitrator, International Commercial Arbitration Court, Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

1990 - present - Professor, Mastere Franco-Russe de Management International, teaching Russian Business Law, Faculty of Economy, Moscow State University, in French

1978 - present – Professor, Department of Private Law, Russian Academy of Foreign Trade, teaching Private International Law, Unification of International Commercial Contracts

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:

Teaching, researching and advising in the fields of Russian Business Law, Contract Law, International Contracts, International Arbitration, Foreign Investments, Private International Law, Unification of International Commercial Contracts

Taking part as an arbitrator at the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, at the Arbitration Court of International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, at ad hoc arbitration, at the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Russian Federation Chamber of Commerce and Industry (about 20 cases per year)

EDUCATION

1962-67 Moscow State University, Faculty of Law (Law School), diploma Visshei Attestazionnoi Komissii of the Counsel of Ministers

1975-78 Institute of Soviet Legislation, Ministry of Justice, post-graduate studies, candidate of law, thezis “International sale of Goods – time of delivery”, diploma of Candidate of Juridical Sciences - PhD(Law), diploma

1986 - Associate Professor, diploma Visshei Attestazionnoi Komissii of the Counsel of Ministers

2002 - Doctor of Juridical Sciences (second and highest scientific degree in Russia), diploma

2003 - Professor, diploma of Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation

OTHER EXPERIENCE

1992 - University at Austin, USA. Individual studies, three weeks

1992-98 Research at the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry Business Schools (one or two months each year)

September - October 1995 Research, International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), Rome, Italy.

November - December 1995 Research, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne, Switzerland .

December 1999, August-September 2000 - research, Leiden Unuiversity, Law School

May-June 2002 – individual research, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington D.C., U.S.A.

April 2003 Research at the University Paris XII, Program TEMPUS of International Financial Management

December 2003 Research at the Hochschule Bremen, Bremen, Germany, Cooperation of the Hochschule Bremen and Russian Academy of Foreign Trade

LANGUAGES: Russian-native, English-fluent, French-fluent

RECENT PUBLICATIONS 2001-2004

New in EC Regulation of International Contracts - Collected papers of the 2 nd International Conference on teaching EC Law in Russia. M. RUDN. 2001. Article in Russian

Legal Regulation of Foreign Economic Activity. To 70th Anniversary of the Russian Academy of Foreign Trade. Chapters: International Financial Leasing, International Commercial Terms: Incoterms, Distributorship agreement. M. DeKA, 2001, in Russian

Contract Law: Unification and Implementation (Dogovornoe pravo v mejdunarodnom oborote). 530 pages. M. “Statut” Publishers, 2002, in Russian, 510 pages

Current Issues of International Commercial Arbitration. To the 70th Anniversary of International Commercial Arbitration Court at the, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation. Article in Russian: Trade Usages in the ICAC Practice. M. "Spark", 2002

New Russian Civil Code in Practice of Court of International Commercial Arbitration at CCI of Russian Federation. Revue "Economy and Law" (Hoziastvo i Pravo) 2003, No 3. Article in Russian

Legal aspects of Distribution of Goods in International Trade. Manual. Academy of Foreign Trade, M. 2003, in Russian, 223 pages

International Commercial Arbitration – Problems and Perspectives. – Revue “Vestnik Vischego arbitragnogo suda”, 2002, No 12, article in Russian

Commentary on the Law on arbitration (o treiteiskih sudah) in Russian Federation. Commentrary to articles 4, 26-28. M. "Statut", 2003, in Russian

New Russian Civil Code in Practice of Court of International Commercial Arbitration at CCI of Russian Federation. Revue "Economy and Law" (Hoziastvo i Pravo) 2003, No 3. Article in Russian.

Commentary to the 3rd part, of Russian Federation' Civil Code, 1214, 1215, 1217. M., "Contract", 2004, in Russian

Commentary to the 3rd part of Russian Federation' Civil Code, chapter VI, Private International Law, commentary to articles 1208, 1209. M. WoltersKluwer, 2004, in Russian

INCOTERMS in the practice of International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Russian Federation Chamber of Commerce and Industry. (INCOTERMS v praktike MKAS pri TPP RF). Revue “International commercial arbitration” (Mezdunarodnii kommertcheskii arbitraj), 2004, No 1. Article in Russian

ICC PUBLICATIONS:

Yan Ramberg. Guide to Incoterms 1990. ICC Publication No 460. M. A/O Consaltbankir ed., 1995. Introduction and Translation into Russian.

The ICC Model Commercial Agency Contract. ICC Publication No 496. M. A/O Consaltbankir. 1996. Translation into Russian

Commercial agency: Guide for Drawing up Contracts. ICC Publication No 410. Translation into Russian and Preface. M. A/O Consaltbankir. 1996

The ICC Model Distributorship Contract. Sole Importer-Distributor. ICC Publication No 518. Introduction and Editing. M. A/O Consaltbankir. 1996

Guide to Drafting International Distributorship Agreements. ICC Publication No 441(E). Translation into Russian and Introduction. M. A/O Consaltbankir. 1996

Force Majeure and Hardship. ICC Publication No 421(E). Translation into Russian and Preface, M. A/O Consaltbankir”, 1997.

Yan Ramberg. ICC Guide to Incoterms 2000. ICC Publication No 620. Translation into Russian and Introduction, M. A/O Consaltbankir”, 2001.

The ICC Occasional Intermediary Contract (non-circumvention and non-disclosure agreement). ICC publication No 619. M. A/O Consaltbankir ed., 2002. Translation into Russian and Introduction.

The ICC Model International Sale contract. Manufactured goods intended for resale. ICC publication No 619. M. A/O Consaltbankir ed., 2002. Translation into Russian and Introduction.

The ICC Model Commercial Agency Contract. 2 nd edition. ICC Publication No 646 E. M. A/O Consaltbankir. 2004. Introduction and Translation into Russian.

The ICC Model Distributorship Contract. Sole Importer-Distributor. 2 nd edition. ICC Publication No 644. Introduction and Translation into Russian. M. A/O Consaltbankir . 2004.

The ICC Short Form Model Contracts. International Commercial Agency. Internayional Distributorship. ICC Publication No 634 E. Introduction and Translation into Russian. M. A/O Consaltbankir. 2004.

PRESENTATIONS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES and SEMINARS 1999-2004

International Contracts in European Union's Law. - presentation in the International Conference on teaching EC Law in Russia. Moscow, November 1999

New trends in European Contract Law. - presentation in the 1 st and 2 nd International Conferences on Teaching EC Law in Russia. Moscow, November 1999, December 2000

INCOTERMS in the Practice of International Commercial Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Report on the seminar “INCOTERMS 2000”, organized be Finnish CCI and ICC in Moscow, April 27, 2000

Status of arbitrators: independence of arbitrators, their qualification, substitution of an arbitrator, arbitrators'fee. Report on Russian-Swedish seminar “East-West International Arbitration in the beginning of the XXI century. Moscow, April 26, 2000.

Unification of Private International Law in CIS countries - paper, International seminar in honor of prof. Clive Schmitthoff, London, June 2000

Arbitration Court of the International Chamber of Commerce. Mock-case in Moscow. April 2002. Presentation of different studies and documents issues during the ICC procedure

Report, UNIDROIT Congress “Worldwide Harmonization of Private Law” to celebrate the 75 th Anniversary of the Founding of International Institute for the Unification of Private Law, 27-28 September 2002, Rome, Italy

Presentation: Tools and Tactics in International Commercial Arbitration. A Hawksmere two days Seminar for lawyers, arbitrators and in-house consel. 30 September – 1 October 2002. Paris, France

Master class on Incoterms 2000. – Russian National Committee of International Chamber of Commerce, March 2003. Presentation of ICC Rules.

Conference: International Sale of Goods. International Arbitration. New Legal Trends and Practice. – Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Perm', April 2003, Voronej, Mai 2003

Conference: Private and Public Law. Celebration of the 50 th anniversary of the Institute of East European Law and Russian Studies of Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands, Leiden, September 2003