Professor Marike Patrani Paulsson, Vice Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution and Secretary General of the Council for International Dispute Resolution of the Kingdom of Bahrain, spoke at the International Conference Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of UNCITRAL, jointly hosted by the Supreme Court of India, India's Ministry of External Affairs, and UNCITRAL, held from 24 to 26 July 2026 at the Supreme Court premises in New Delhi.
The session was chaired by Justice Manmohan and co-chaired by Justice Joymalya Bagchi, both Honourable Judges of the Supreme Court of the Republic of India.
Professor Paulsson was joined on the panel by a distinguished group of speakers, including Victor Dawes SC of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre; Audley Sheppard, Chair of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA); Dr. Roberto Dalledone Machado Filho, Secretary General of the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil; The Right Hon Lord Leggatt of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and Justice Pasquale D'Ascola, First President of the Supreme Court of Cassation of Italy.
Justice Dato' Mary Lim Thiam Suan, Judge of the Bahrain International Commercial Court, also spoke on a panel at the conference.
The Council's participation in this conference reflects the Kingdom of Bahrain's continued engagement with international efforts to strengthen and modernise the global arbitration framework, and underscores the Kingdom's growing role in shaping the future of international commercial arbitration.