Christian P. Alberti is the Assistant Vice President of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the international division of the American Arbitration Association, Inc. (AAA). He supervises the ICDR’s staff and center management activities and oversees hundreds of large complex multi-party arbitrations and mediations covering all types of disputes and industries each year. Prior to joining the ICDR in 2005, Christian headed the Italian Desk of a mid-size law firm in Germany. After studies at the Philipps-University of Marburg and the University of Queensland he was admitted to practice law in Germany in 2003. He obtained an LL.M. from Tulane University Law School in 2002.
He is the past President of the Alumni Association of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot (MAA) and represents the MAA as its NGO delegate at the UNCITRAL Working Group on Arbitration sessions. He is regularly invited to speak at international conferences and guest lectures at various law schools about international arbitration and mediation in the US and abroad. He successfully coaches NYU’s Vis Moot Team since 2007 and NYU’s FDI Moot Team since the FDI Moot's inaugural edition in 2008. He is an associate of Pace University’s Institute of International Commercial Law and a member of The International Arbitration Club of New York as well as various other ADR associations. He speaks fluent English, German, Italian, and has a basic knowledge of French.
