World Bank Group Sanctions Board

Philip Daltrop, a UK and German national, has served on the World Bank Group Sanctions Board since October 2022, and as Sanctions Board Chair since June 2025. He has 35 years experience as an international lawyer, mostly spent in a variety of legal, procurement and integrity functions at several multilateral development banks. He worked in Manila for the Asian Development Bank for 20 years, retiring as Deputy General Counsel in 2011 after also heading ADB’s procurement, integrity and internal audit offices. Since then he has worked as a freelance legal consultant, based in London and Jakarta, undertaking assignments in these areas for the World Bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and other organizations.  Earlier in his career, he worked for a total of ten years in the London, Brussels and Tokyo offices of Allen & Overy, the legal department of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as a finance lawyer for Inter-American Development Bank, and as a project lawyer for the World Bank. He holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (First Class), and a master’s in International Human Rights Law (with Distinction), both from Oxford University. He also completed postgraduate legal examinations and training as an English solicitor in London. For more information about Philip Daltrop, please click here.

Nassib G. Ziadé, a dual Lebanon and Chile national, has served on the World Bank Group Sanctions Board since June 2025. He is an international arbitrator and counsel with over forty years of experience in international dispute settlement. He has considerable experience with the rules of many arbitration institutions, having served as tribunal chair or co-arbitrator in arbitrations relating to international commerce, construction, investment and public international law. He was the Chief Executive Officer of the Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution (BCDR) from 2013 until 2023. He also serves as the President of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Administrative Tribunal and the United Nations Appeals Tribunal. He obtained four degrees, namely two master's degrees in private and public law and a degree in political science from Saint Joseph University as well as a degree in business management from the American University of Beirut. Further, he is an Associate Member of the Institut de droit international. He has published extensively in the fields of international law and arbitration law. He is the Founder and General Editor of the BCDR International Arbitration Review, a former Editor-in-Chief of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes Review—Foreign Investment Law Journal, and a member of the editorial advisory committees of several law journals. For more information about Nassib G. Ziadé, please click here.

Claudia Annacker, an Austrian national, has served on the World Bank Group Sanctions Board since June 2025. She is an international arbitrator and counsel with over 30 years of experience in international dispute settlement.  Her practice focuses on international arbitration and public international law, in particular investor-State disputes, inter-State disputes, and disputes involving international organizations. Before establishing her independent practice in 2024, she was a partner at Dechert LLP and prior thereto a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.  She has also regularly acted as counsel in commercial and inter-State arbitrations, as well as before the European Court of Human Rights.  She has been appointed to several arbitrator panels, including the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC).  She serves on the SIAC Court of Arbitration and the Board of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre. She holds a PhD and a venia legendi et docendi (habilitation) in public international law from the University of Vienna.  She is an adjunct professor at the University of Vienna, where she teaches advanced research seminars in public international law and supervises PhD theses.  She has also been a visiting professor at the University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense and regularly lectures at other leading universities.  She has published extensively on international dispute settlement. For more information about Claudia Annacker, please click here.

Mahnaz Malik, a British and Pakistan national, has served on the World Bank Group Sanctions Board since January 2024. She is a Barrister and Arbitrator who has over twenty-five years of experience advising Governments, corporations and international organizations on complex cross-border disputes. She is particularly adept with disputes relating to natural resources, sporting events, joint venture partners, shareholders, international organizations, institutional lenders, foreign investment laws and state entities. She has served as a member of the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators for over a decade, and has been appointed as a member of the ICSID ad hoc Annulment Committee in two cases. She has also served as a member of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Commissions on Arbitration and Anti-Corruption. After graduating with a master’s in law from Cambridge University, she qualified as a Barrister in England and Wales, Attorney at Law in New York and an Advocate in Pakistan. She is a Fellow of Hughes Hall College, University of Cambridge ). She publishes, teaches and speaks extensively. Her writings are frequently cited in academic journals, arbitration awards, and examination papers and appear on syllabi. For more information about Mahnaz Malik, please click here. 

Adedoyin Rhodes-Vivour, a Nigerian national, has served on the World Bank Group Sanctions Board since November 2020. She has practiced law for over 40 years specializing in International Arbitration, Commercial law, litigation and various forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution. She was a former member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in the Hague, Netherlands and a former member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Africa Commission and the International Commercial Arbitration Committee of the International Law Association. She is a member of the panel of Arbitrators of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). She is a member of the ICC Arbitration & ADR Commission and a former member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. She is a graduate of the University of Lagos, Nigeria (LLB, LLM) and King’s College London, University of London (M.A in International Peace and Security with merit). She is a British Chevening Scholar and awardee of the United States Information Services (USIS) Young African Leaders Programme (1990). She is a Fellow and Chartered Arbitrator of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators United Kingdom. She is a CEDR [UK] Accredited Mediator. For more information about Adedoyin Rhodes-Vivour, please click here.

Don De Amicis, a United States national, has served on the World Bank Group Don De Amicis, a United States national, has served on the World Bank Group Sanctions Board since June 2025.  He has over forty years of experience in international dispute resolution and is currently a Professor at Georgetown University Law Center and faculty director of the Center on Transnational Business and the Law. He also serves as an arbitrator in domestic and international commercial arbitrations. He is a former member of both the Enforcement Committee of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Sanctions Committee of the Inter-American Development Bank.  Previously, he was a senior partner at Ropes & Gray LLP, an international law firm, with a practice that focused on three principal areas: corporate, finance, and restructuring.  He has long been active in the American Bar Association (ABA) and is currently serving on the ABA’s Center for Human Rights.  He is a graduate of Harvard College (B.A.) and received his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. He serves as faculty adviser director of the Executive Securities and Financial Regulation LL.M. program. For more information about Don Scott De Amicis, please click here.

Khaled Koubaa, a Tunisian national, has served on the World Bank Group Sanctions Board since December 2025. He has built a career of more than 20 years at the intersection of technology, public policy and global governance. He has held senior leadership roles at Google and Meta, where he helped advance open internet frameworks, data governance efforts and regulatory cooperation across Europe, Middle East and Africa. He has served as a Board Director at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a Trustee of the Internet Society and a Board Director of AfriNIC. He was appointed by the United Nations Secretary General to the Internet Governance Forum’s Multistakeholder Advisory Group, contributing to deliberations on the evolution of internet governance. He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AT Worthy Technology Inc., a company that develops AI powered systems for assessing digital and AI readiness and strengthening trust in digital services. He studied management, e-commerce and international procurement in Tunisia and later completed specialized programs in public leadership, negotiation, data compliance and artificial intelligence. For more information about Khaled Koubaa, please click here.