Personal bio
Edna Sussman, esussman@sussmanADR.com is a full-time independent arbitrator and is the Distinguished ADR Practitioner in Residence at Fordham University School of Law. She was formerly a litigation partner at the law firm of White & Case LLP. Ms. Sussman has served as the chair, sole and co-arbitrator in over 300 complex commercial disputes and over 200 complex commercial mediations, both international and domestic, under various institutional rules and ad hoc involving contract interpretation, commercial transactions, pharmaceuticals, mergers/acquisitions, intellectual property, energy, financing and banking transactions, franchises/distributorships, insurance, telecommunications, partnership and joint venture, accounting, environment, securities, aviation and professional liability. Ms. Sussman is a member of the panel of many of the leading dispute resolution institutions around the world. Ms. Sussman is the former Chair of the New York International Arbitration Center and sat for many years on the Board of the American Arbitration Association. She is the former and founding chair of the AAA-ICDR Foundation and is a past President of the College of Commercial Arbitrators. Ms. Sussman is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and certified by the International Mediation Institute. She is a former Chair of the Dispute Resolution Section of the New York State Bar Association and serves as co-editor-in-chief of the NY Dispute Resolution Lawyer. Ms. Sussman has lectured and published widely on arbitration and mediation.