International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes Appointment of Four Members of the Panel of Conciliators and Four Members of the Panel of Arbitrators.

The President today announced the appointment of four persons as members of the Panel of Conciliators and four persons as members of the Panel of Arbitrators of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). ICSID is a World Bank affiliate which provides facilities for the arbitration and conciliation of investment disputes between foreign investors and host governments. The persons appointed today are:

As members of the Panel of Conciliators

JAMES COFFIN GREENE, a partner in the Los Angeles law firm of O'Melveny & Myers;

PETER H. KAMINER, senior managing partner in the New York law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts;

BAYLESS ANDREW MANNING, a partner in the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, former dean of Stanford Law School;

SEYMOUR JEFFREY RUBIN, a professor of law at American University, former General Counsel of the Agency for International Development, and U.S. representative on the United Nations Commission on Transnational Corporations.

As members of the Panel of Arbitrators

MYRES SMITH McDOUGAL, a professor of law at Yale University, a former member of the U.S. Panel on Permanent Court Arbitration;

SOIA MENTSCHIKOFF, dean of the University of Miami (Florida) Law School;

OSCAR SCHACHTER, a professor of law at Columbia University School of Law, a specialist in international law;

DETLEV FREDERICK VAGTS, a professor at Harvard University Law School, who has served as a counselor on international law to the State Department.