Professor Peter Sester is Professor of Commercial and Arbitration Law at Fundação Getúlio Vargas Law School (Rio de Janeiro) and co-head of the law school's Centre for Arbitration and Commercial Law. He runs a boutique law firm in Rio de Janerico, consulting on business law, and authored International Arbitration: Law and Practice in Brazil with OUP, as well as several publications in German. He also holds two PhDs: in law, from the University
of Heidelberg, and in economics, from the Humboldt-University, Berlin. He was a tenured professor at the Universities Karlsruhe (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), St. Gallen, and Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, where he directed the Institute for Law and Finance.