Gebied van specialisatie
Ervaring met het juridisch systeem
Professionele ervaring
Maud Piers is Of Counsel with Gantenberg Dispute Experts, where she focuses on her practice as arbitrator and mediator. She is Associate Professor of Arbitration Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution at Ghent University, where she directs the Center for the Future of Dispute Resolution, and also serves as Adjunct Professor at the Université Catholique de Lille and Hunan University of Science and Technology.She is widely recognised for her expertise in arbitration and mediation, with a particular focus on the legal and procedural challenges raised by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain. She is the author of Arbitration in the Digital Age (Cambridge University Press) and Transforming Arbitration (Radboud University Press, 2025), which contribute to ongoing debates on the future of arbitration and digital due process.
With more than two decades of experience in arbitration, Maud Piers has acted in a variety of roles—including as arbitrator and legal expert—in both domestic and international proceedings, has and has also served in dispute-resolution, advisory and facilitating capacities within integrity- and governance-related bodies, and is an accredited mediator in business disputes. Her combined academic and practical background positions her as a trusted voice in complex, high-stakes disputes involving cutting-edge legal questions.
She is Vice President of CEPANI, Belgium’s centre for arbitration and mediation, and an active contributor to international initiatives such as VIAC’s Legal Tech Think Tank, CIArb’s Technology in ADR Thought Leadership Group, and the IBA AI Task Force. She regularly speaks at major international conferences and publishes extensively on dispute resolution and legal technology, while supervising PhD research that engages directly with the evolving practice of arbitration.