In this short video, you will get an overview of the Delos Damages MOOC from Co-Chairs Roula Harfouche, Independent Expert (London) and James Nicholson of FTI Consulting (Singapore). Their short bios are set out below.
James and Roula introduce the innovative e-learning platform, the 11 courses on offer, and the harmonised glossary across all courses. There are 5 introductory level courses and 6 advanced level courses, with additional lessons being developed as part of a side module on how to work with Excel. You can get your learning recognised by taking a quiz to test your understanding of the introductory level courses (here), and of the advanced level courses (here), with a view to obtaining a certificate of completion for each level.
Forthcoming plans include the addition of a course on the legal principles applicable to damages.
Acknowledgements: Federico Ariel Sivak of Delos Dispute Resolution (Buenos Aires) and Charlotte Legrand of FTI Consulting (Paris).
ABOUT THE CO-CHAIRS
Roula Harfouche
Independent Expert (London)
Roula Harfouche is an Independent Expert, based in London. She specialises in the assessment of damages and complex valuation issues in litigation and international arbitration contexts. She is experienced in matters involving breaches of contract, investment treaty claims, transaction-related disputes and intellectual property infringements. She has been valuing companies, listed and unlisted securities, and intellectual property rights in commercial and contentious contexts since 2000, and has provided valuation or damages assessment services in over 80 disputes.
Roula is recognised among the leading expert witnesses worldwide by Who’s Who Legal in the Thought Leaders Global Elite list, in Arbitration, for the quantum of damages and in forensic accounting.
Roula has testified in English and French, and has worked on matters before the UK High Court, Family Division, and Patents Court, and the Singapore International Commercial Court, as well as the LCIA, ICC, SCC, HKIAC, PCA, CRCICA, SCAI, and ICSID, and in mediation.
James Nicholson
Head of Asia Economic and Financial Consulting, FTI Consulting
James Nicholson is a highly sought-after expert witness on the quantification of losses in litigation and international arbitration, and leads FTI Consulting’s Asia Economic and Financial Consulting team from his base in Singapore.
James Nicholson has 25+ years’ experience as a consultant on matters of finance, strategy, and economics. Since 2005, his work has primarily involved issues of the identification and valuation of lost profits, and the valuation of businesses, financial assets including shareholdings, and other assets, and of wasted costs.
He has testified 45+ times before the High Court of England and Wales, the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, the Singapore High Court, the Singapore International Commercial Court, and commercial and investment treaty tribunals.
James is a member of the Executive Committee of the Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy (FIAA), and from 2014 to 2021 was President of the Standing Committee of the ICC’s International Centre for ADR, which advises the Centre in the application of the ICC’s Expert Rules.
Since 2015, James has been identified by Who’s Who Legal as one of the five-ten ‘Most Highly Regarded Individuals’ and ‘Global Elite Thought Leaders’ in Europe and latterly Asia in its listings of the leading expert witnesses active in international arbitration.
Before relocating to Singapore in 2019, James founded and led for 12 years FTI’s 20-strong Paris disputes team.
James is a CFA Charterholder and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study for a Master in Public Policy degree at the Harvard Kennedy School. James was awarded first class honours in his BA from Oxford University in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
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