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Named to Global Arbitration Review’s Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration — a guide to the world’s leading commercial arbitrators, Ann Ryan Robertson serves as both arbitrator and counsel in international and domestic arbitrations in a variety of complex business disputes across a number of industries. As counsel, she appears as an advocate, designs dispute resolution mechanisms, enforces arbitral awards, and advises and negotiates settlements.
Named to Global Arbitration Review’s Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration — a guide to the world’s leading commercial arbitrators, Ann Ryan Robertson serves as both arbitrator and counsel in international and domestic arbitrations in a variety of complex business disputes across a number of industries. As counsel, she appears as an advocate, designs dispute resolution mechanisms, enforces arbitral awards, and advises and negotiates settlements.
Ann’s representative arbitration experience includes:
- Chair, ICDR arbitration involving captive insurance, seated in Phoenix
- Chair, ICDR arbitration involving breach of supply agreement, seated in Houston
- Panel member, ICC arbitration involving breach of seismic agreement, seated in London
- Emergency arbitrator, ICDR arbitration involving breach of manufacturing agreement, seated in Denver
- Sole arbitrator, AAA arbitration involving breach of manufacturing contract, seated in Houston
- Sole arbitrator, AAA arbitration involving breach of development contract, seated in Louisiana
- Emergency arbitrator, ICDR arbitration involving breach of sales contract, seated in Houston
- Sole arbitrator, ad hoc arbitration involving construction issues, seated in Houston
- Emergency arbitrator, ICDR arbitration involving oil concession, seated in Houston
- Counsel for international oil company in ICDR arbitration involving JOA and offshore Africa oil and gas concession, seated in Houston
- Counsel for international oil field services company in ICC arbitration involving contract dispute, seated in London
- Counsel for Chinese company in ICC arbitration involving supply contract with Turkish manufacturer, seated in Geneva
- Counsel for Chinese administrative development district in an ICC arbitration involving Spanish company’s development rights, seated in Paris
- Counsel for franchisor in an ICC arbitration involving development of franchises throughout the Middle East, seated in Paris
- Counsel for national warranty company in an AAA arbitration involving commissions, seated in Connecticut
CREDENTIALS
Education
- LL.M., International Economic Law, University of Houston Law Center, 2005
- J.D., University of Houston Law Center, 1977
Order of the Barons - B.A., English, University of Houston, 1972
Bar Admissions
- Texas, 1977
Court Admissions
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
Professional Affiliations
- Council Member, AAA/ICDR (2014-2024)
- Global President, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2021)
- Chartered Arbitrator and Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- Chapter 31 Panelist, United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (one of 10 people appointed by United States government to decide State-to-State disputes)
- Fellow, College of Commercial Arbitrators
- Member, ICDR, SIAC, HKIAC, BVI IAC, KCAB, THAC, and CAFA
- Member, London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
- Trustee, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2013-2019)
- Faculty, CIArb International Diploma on International Arbitration
- CIArb Tutor (Introductory Course); CIArb Assessor (Accelerated Route to Membership); CIArb Examiner and Moderator (Accelerated Route to Fellowship)
- Adjunct Professor, University of Houston Law Center: "International Arbitration Advocacy"
- Instructor, Commercial Arbitration, A.A. White Dispute Resolution Center, University of Houston Law Center
- Coach, University of Houston Law Center Willem C. Vis International Arbitration Moot Competition (2002-2020)
- Chair, ICDR Task Force on Rule Revisions
- Executive Committee, Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)
- Co-Chair, ITA Strategic Planning Committee
- Facilitator, ICDR Symposium
- Former Member, ICC Commission on Arbitration
- Member, Houston International Arbitration Club
- Founding Member, ArbitralWomen
- Member, American Law Institute
Awards & Recognitions
- Named, Who’s Who Legal Thought Leaders: Arbitration (2025)
- Named, Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders Arbitration, Global Arbitration Review (2024)
- Recipient, Fellow Emeritus Award, North America Branch, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2024)
- Recipient, Justice Ruby Kless Sondock Award, Houston Bar Association (2023)
- Recipient, Lifetime Achievement in Advocacy Award, University of Houston Law Center's Blakely Advocacy Institute (2023)
- Honoree, Sarah T. Hughes Women Lawyers of Achievement, Women and the Law Section of the State Bar of Texas (2022)
- Named, Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration, Global Arbitration Review (2015-2024)
- Named, The Best Lawyers in America®, Arbitration, International Arbitration - Commercial, International Arbitration - Governmental (2014-2025)
- Honoree, Women Who Mean Business, Houston Business Journal (2021)
- Named, “Premier Woman in the Law,” Association of Women Attorneys Foundation (2020)
- Named, Lawyer of the Year, International Arbitration – Governmental, Houston, The Best Lawyers in America® (2014 and 2017)
- Named, One of 30 “Extraordinary Women in Texas Law,” Texas Lawyer (2008)
- Recipient, Private Sector Achievement Award, University of Houston Law Center (2016)
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