Nationality: Belg

Lawyer at the Brussels bar (Jones Day)

Co-chair of CEPANI40

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)

- 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)

Master of Laws (Ghent University, 2004)

LL.M. (Columbia University School of Law, 2008)

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