Vanessa
Foncke
Date of birth: Tuesday 27 October 1981
Nationality: Belg
Current occupation:
Lawyer at the Brussels bar (Jones Day)
Co-chair of CEPANI40
Professional experience:
Lawyer at the Brussels bar (Eubelius, 2004-2007)
Board member of the Dutch speaking Brussels Young Bar Association (Vlaams pleitgenootschap, 2010-2013)
Editor in Chief of the monthly CEPANI newsletter (May 2011 - October 2014)
Member of the editorial board of Tijdschrift voor Belgisch Handelsrecht / Revue de droit commercial (since May 2013)
Arbitration experience:
- Experience in domestic and international commercial arbitration both as counsel and arbitrator (ICC, CEPANI, ad hoc)
- Co-chair of CEPANI40
- Editor-in-chief of the monthly CEPANI newsletter
- Presentations on "evidence in arbitration" at the Ghent University seminar on the new Belgian arbitration law (December 2013); "interim and conservatory measures / emergency arbitration" at the Istanbul conference on Belgium and Brussels, capital of Europe, the international arbitration hub (February 2014)
- Author of various arbitration related publications
- Participant (2003-2004) and arbitrator (since 2009) at the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot and various Pre-moots
- Member of CEPANI, CEPANI40, ICC YAF, Young ICCA, ICDR Y&I and YIAG (LCIA)
Studies:
Master of Laws (Ghent University, 2004)
LL.M. (Columbia University School of Law, 2008)
Publications:
V. FONCKE, “Evidence in Arbitration under the new Belgian Arbitration Act”, b-Arbitra 2014/1, p. 29-52
V. FONCKE, “Bewijsvoering in arbitrage”, in M. Piers (ed.), De nieuwe arbitragewet 2013 - Essentiële bepalingen en hun praktische werking, Antwerpen, Intersentia, 2013, p. 83-103
V. FONCKE, “Belgium Adopts New Arbitration Law Based on UNCITRAL Model Law”, available on www.jonesday.com/vfoncke/
V. FONCKE and G. COPPENS, “Wet van 24 juni 2013 tot wijziging van het zesde deel van het Gerechtelijk Wetboek betreffende de arbitrage”, TBH 2013/7, p. 673
V. FONCKE and S. CHAMPAGNE, “The European Union’s Product Liability and Safety Legislation”, in Product Law Worldview, available on www.jonesday.com/vfoncke