Matthew Parish

Experience

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  Court of Justice of the European Union

  Mar 2000 - Dec 2000

  Stagiaire (legal clerk)
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  International Bank For Reconstruction & Development

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2005

  Legal Counsel

  Working as a legal advisor on Middle East and North Africa projects, including Yemen, Egypt, Israel/Palestinian territories, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Chad, Niger

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  Office of the High Representative

  Jul 2005 - Nov 2007

  Head of Legal Department

  Advising a senior international civil servant on matters of domestic and public international law; managing legal and judicial reform projects; management of a major public international law arbitration

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  Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

  Jan 2008 - Nov 2011

  Of Counsel

  international litigation counsel for one of the world's top law firms, with a comprehensive Russia and Ukraine portfolio of sensitive, high value cases.

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  Department for International Development

  Sept 2008 - now

  Deployment Civilian Expert, Stabilisation Unit

  Expert in post-conflict reconstruction, political reconciliation, and legal and judicial reform

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  Université de Genève

  Sept 2008 - Nov 2022

  Adjunct lecturer

  Professor, International Arbitration and Cross-Border Dispute Resolution

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  British Institute of International and Comparative Law

  Jun 2009 - Jun 2010

  Visiting Fellow

  Researcher in the political economy of public international law

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  Holman Fenwick Willan LLP

  Sept 2011 - Jan 2014

  Partner

  International arbitration, cross-border litigation, asset tracing, cross-border insolvencies, political and governmental law

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  Gentium Law Group

  Jan 2014 - Jan 2019

  Managing Partner

  Managing Partner of the Gentium Law Group, an international network of law firms and law offices specialising in international arbitration and cross-border dispute resolution.

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  The 2016 campaign team for Vuk Jeremic to be selected as United Nations Secretary General

  Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

  Head of Western Campaign Team

  Managed the lobbying process for western countries, for the Serbian candidate to be United Nations Secretary General in 2016. Ultimately we came second after Antonio Guterres, achieving a 'neutral' vote from the UK and France.

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  University of Leicester

  Jan 2016 - Nov 2022

  Professor

  I am an honorary Professor at the University of Leicester law school, where I teach comparative civil law and litigation.

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  The Paladins Organisation | www.the-paladins.com

  Mar 2020 - now

  Managing Partner

  Managing Partner of a legal, security and intelligence private commercial organisation of highly distinguished experts in a variety of fields. No mandate is too difficult. www.the-paladins.com

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  Ukraine Development Trust | www.development-foundation.org

  Sept 2023 - now

  Executive Chairman

  As Executive Chairman at the Foundation for Development I manage grant and investment interests with a view to distributing those resources to appropriate NGO's and other civil society stakeholders in the Ukraine conflict theatre working in the fields of humanitarian relief, public administration reform, state-building, post-conflict reconstruction and infrastructure development, as well as the procedures required for Euro-Atlantic integration in Ukraine. www.development-foundation.org

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  Lviv Herald | www.lvivherald.com

  Jan 2024 - now

  Editor in Chief

  Editor-in-Chief of an English language newspaper based in Lviv, Ukraine, www.lvivherald.com, that seeks to write about the truth of life in wartime Ukraine amidst the propaganda and bias inevitably taking place in any war zone.

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  Frontline Ukraine | www.frontline-ukraine.com

  Jan 2025 - now

  Founder and Executive Chairman

  Co-founder of a tour company providing tours of the front line in Eastern Ukraine under maximum conditions of security and safety.