Bas van Zelst

Prof. Bas van Zelst co-founded Enhance Arbitration. Building on about 20 years of experience, Bas acts as counsel, arbitrator, and expert in commercial and investment matters – including on annulment and enforcement mandates.

Bas has extensive experience in conducting and advising on national and international commercial arbitration and related proceedings before the regular courts. He has been involved in arbitration procedures under the ICC, NAI, LCIA, UNCITRAL and DIS arbitration rules.

Prof. Van Zelst combines his full-time counsel practice with a position as professor of dispute resolution and arbitration at the University of Maastricht. He was a visitsing researcher at Harvard University's School of Law in 2006/2007, and a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia (CA) in 2017. Basis a member of the editorial board of TvA, the Dutch Journal of Arbitration Law, and a member of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute's Advisory Board since 2018.