Ank Santens is a partner in White & Case LLP’s international arbitration group, based in New York.   She serves as counsel or arbitrator in commercial, investment, and construction arbitrations around the world.  She has been named a Thought Leader (Who’s Who Legal Thought Leaders 2019), Most Highly Regarded Individual (Who’s Who Legal Future Leaders 2017), Best in Commercial Arbitration (Euromoney’s Americas Women in Business Law Awards 2016), and Global Rising Star of the Year (Euromoney’s Global Arbitration Awards 2014).  She serves on the Board of Directors of Delos and CPR, and on the Executive Committee of the Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy (FIAA) and the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA).  She is the former Chair of the CPR Arbitration Committee and a former Vice Chair of the IBA’s Arbitration Committee, and was a member of the ICCA-Queen Mary Task Force on Third Party Funding.  She frequently lectures and publishes on international arbitration topics.  During her tenure as Chair, the CPR Arbitration Committee published “The CPR Corporate Counsel Manual for Cross-Border Dispute Resolution” (2017).  Ms. Santens holds law degrees from Columbia University (NY) and Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), and studied one year at the law faculty of the University of Granada (Spain).  She is a member of the New York bar and a Solicitor of England and Wales.  Her working languages are English, French, Spanish and Flemish/Dutch.