Massimo Benedettelli is founding partner of ArbLit, an Italian boutique focusing on international arbitration and cross-border litigation. He is full professor of International Law. He has been teaching from 1994 to 2023 at the University “Aldo Moro” in Bari and is currently professor of practice at Bocconi’s Law School and SDA School of Management in Milan. In January 2022 he has delivered a course at the Hague Academy of International Law on Powers in International Arbitration between Party Autonomy, Arbitral Authority and State Sovereignty. He is the author of books and articles on public and private international law, EU law and international arbitration, including the first ever written treatise in English on International Arbitration in Italy. Upon designation of the ICC World Council Massimo has been appointed Italian member of the ICC Court of Arbitration to serve for the 2021-2023 term. Since July 2018 Massimo had already participated to the works of the ICC Court as Italian alternate member, having led for some years the Italian delegation to the ICC Commission of Arbitration. He is also a member of the Arbitration Council of ACIAM, Atlanta (GA). One of Italy’s main arbitration specialists, throughout his career Massimo has acted as counsel or sat as chairman, sole or party-appointed arbitrator in several commercial and investment treaty arbitrations and featuring procedural and substantive laws of different jurisdictions as well as public international law.