2025 London International Boundary Conference

12-13 June 2025

List of panels and speakers

Thursday 12 June 2025

Panel 1: Borderland and borderscape

Kevin Lougheed (Chair) - King's College London
Carl Grundy-Warr - National University of Singapore
Muhammed Khan - King's College London
Jonathan Rock Rokem - Northeastern University London

Panel 2: Borders, territories, and increasingly "lawless" world

Murice Mendelson QC (Chair) - Blackstone Chamber
Lea Brilmayer - Yale Law School
Chris Whomersley - Foreign & Commonwealth Office (retired)
Mustafa Baskara - Ankara University National Centre for the Sea and the Maritime Law

Panel 3: Territorial issues of the Middle East and Gulf States

Richard Schofield (Chair) - King's College London
Zeina Awan – University of Oxford
Deger Boden - Boden Law
Stephen Allen – Queen Mary University of London
Farah El Barnachawy – Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nation

Friday 13 June 2025

Panel 4: African boundaries and territorial conflicts: into the mid 21st Century

Ahmed Abdel Hakam (Chair) -Volterra Fietta
Mohammed Mostafa - The Suez Canal Authority
Velimir Zivkovic - University of Warwick
Mavinga Declerc - Mavinga Declerc & Partners
One Pusumane - University of Edinburgh
Stephanie Schandorf - Gulf of Guinea Maritime Institute

Panel 5: Non-lawyer contribution to boundary and territorial dispute settlement

Robin Cleverly (Chair) – Marbdy Consulting Ltd
Neal Archer - Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom
Charles Gurdon - Menas Associates
Clive Schofield - University of Wollongong
Innocent Makoza – Ministry of Lands and Urban Development. Malawi

Panel 6: Maritime boundaries and hydrocarbons

Gunjan Sharma (Chair) - Volterra Fietta
Xuexia Liao – Peking University School of Law
Dan Kuwali - University of Pretoria
Nikos Asimakopoulos – Sigma7 Alaco
Shazzad Mohashin – University of Glasgow

Panel 7: Whatever happened to our borderless world?

Merrill Hopper (Chair) – King's College London
Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly – University of Victoria
David Newman – Ben-Gurion University of Negev
Elisabeth Vallet - Université du Québec
William Thomas Worster - The Hague University of Applied Sciences