CGA Announces New Leadership for 2026-2028 term
New Campaign for Greener Arbitrations Leadership
The Campaign for Greener Arbitrations has announced new Co-Chairs of its Global Steering Committee for the upcoming 2026-2028 term.
Current Co-Chairs, Christine Falcicchio of Sopra Legal and Cherine Foty of Covington and Burling LLP, will hand over leadership to incoming Co-Chairs, Laura Halonen of WAGNER Arbitration and Andrew Mackenzie of the Scottish Arbitration Centre. Halonen and Mackenzie will be joined by Vice Co-Chairs, Olivier André of Freshfields and Karen Tan of Maxwell Chambers.
Falcicchio and Foty have served on the Campaign’s Global Steering Committee since 2020, governing its over 100-attorney leadership structure of global and regional committees, and subject-matter task forces. Falcicchio and Foty were instrumental in publishing the Campaign’s Green Protocols. In the current term, in addition to continuing implementation efforts and promoting sustainable behavioral changes within the international arbitration community, Falcicchio and Foty oversaw initiatives including:
Conceptualizing and developing the forthcoming Carbon Impact Calculator model, aninnovative tool that generates data-driven reports on the carbon emissions associated witharbitrations, allowing parties to estimate, budget for, calculate, and mitigate those expended emissions; led by the Campaign’s Innovation & Policy Task Force Co-Chairs Richard Acklam of Charles River Associates and Atha Arapogianni Konisti of BRG.
Conducting research and issuing the Institutions Task Force’s Green Survey Report, examining, identifying the challenges and roadblocks faced by arbitration institutions in their journey towards sustainability, led by Task Force Co-Chairs Kiran Sanghera ofHKIAC and Karen Tan of Maxwell Chambers.
Drafting a Model Clause for Company Outside Counsel Retention, for use by company legal departments to assist in reducing carbon emissions and other environmental impact associated with managing and resolving disputes, led by Corporate Task Force Chair Michael McIlwrath.
Launching a New Implementation Survey, still open for submissions, to gather insight on how the Green Pledge is being implemented in real-world workflows, hearings, and case management, led by Implementation Task Force Co-Chairs Alastair Livesey of A&O Sherman and Gökçe Uyar of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
Highlighting and creating panels and programming around the synergies between the Campaign’s sustainability efforts, ESG regulatory measures and disputes, environmental due diligence, and climate change policy developments; and publishing thought leadership on issues of sustainability and international arbitration.
Presenting to and proposing edits to rules revision committees of major arbitral institutions to incorporate sustainability considerations, including to the ICC Commission onArbitration and ADR.
Coordinating nominations and announcing the annual Campaign for Greener Arbitrations Award for Sustainable Behaviour at the Global Arbitration Review Awards.
Falcicchio and Foty will continue to serve alongside Campaign founder, Lucy Greenwood, on the Campaign’s Advisory Board. Other recent and outgoing Chairs will also serve on the Advisory Board including Alex Bevan, Antonia Birt, Helin Laufer, Kiran Sanghera, Michael McIlwrath, and Pamela MacDonald.
The Campaign evolved out of Greenwood’s personal commitment to conduct her arbitration practice in a more sustainable manner and to encourage others to do so as well, by launching the “Green Pledge” in 2019. The Green Pledge now has nearly 2000 signatories. Greenwood reflects:
The CGA has transformed beyond recognition since it began life as the Green Pledge. Much of this is down to the dedication and drive shown by the Global Steering Committee under the exceptional leadership of Christine and Cherine. The incoming leadership team can now build on the solid foundation they have created. As an entirely volunteer led organization we are so grateful for all the support the Campaign receives from the arbitration community.
In the upcoming term, the Campaign will continue its outreach to new and current Green Pledge signatories to inform them on best practices toward more sustainable arbitrations. The new leaders have a focus on implementation and practical support for practitioners and will draw upon their prior leadership roles in the Campaign to continue to propel it forward. Halonen and Mackenzie previously served as Co-Chairs of the Campaign’s Europe Committee for the past term, while André co-chaired the North America Committee and Tan co-chaired the Institutions Task Force.
The Campaign will announce its full roster of the new leadership of its Global Steering Committee Task Forces and Regional Committees for the 2026 term in an upcoming press release.
More information on the Green Pledge and Campaign for Greener Arbitrations can be found at: https://www.greenerarbitrations.com/