Steffen Hindelang @ CELIS.institute

Steffen Hindelang serves as Executive Director of the CELIS Institute on a pro bono basis.

Bio note

Steffen Hindelang is co-founder and executive director of the CELIS Institute, the leading forum for studying and debating investment screening and security policy in a small-room, high-trust environment. He is also full professor of international investment and trade law at Uppsala University in Sweden. He teaches and researches in the areas of international economic law, esp. international investment law, arbitration, and investment security, EU law and German public law. Moreover, he is senior fellow at the Walter Hallstein Institute of European Constitutional Law at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and academic advisor to the International Investment Law Centre Cologne (IILCC).

Furthermore, Steffen has advised, inter alia, European governments and businesses on EU and German investment screening regulations as well as in international investment disputes and international organisations, such as UNCTAD, on matters of reform of the current international investment law regime. He was repeatedly invited by the European Parliament’s INTA Committee to prepare studies on the evolvement of the EU Common Commercial Policy in the area of investment. Steffen was also involved as expert advisor in the Achmea proceedings, in particular in the German courts, and has served as legal expert in support of the Kingdom of Spain in several ICSID, PCA, and SCC arbitrations, Green Power and Portigon among them, where the intra-EU objection was first accepted in full and in part respectively, as well as in numerous US Court proceedings in Novenergia, Eiser, Antin, Masdar, and others. In the Swedish Supreme Court, he acted as expert in support of the Republic of Poland in in the landmark case of PL Holdings. He assisted the Republic of Croatia before German courts in obtaining an interim injunction against investment arbitration proceedings.

He has acted as ICSID arbitrator and serves at the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators designated by the Federal Republic of Germany for the term 2025-2031 and the List of European Union Candidates Suitable for Appointment as Arbitra-tors and TSD Experts.

Steffen is series co-editor of the YSEC Yearbook of Socio-Economic Constitutions, Springer. Further publications here.

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