The current members of the Commission are:
Mr. Veijo Heiskanen (Finland) serves as chairman of the KPCC. Previously he was an international member of the Housing and Property Claims Commission in Kosovo. He was a graduate of the University of Helsinki and Harvard Law School; he was conferred with his LL.M. in 1988 and S.J.D. in 1992. He specialized in international law; commercial arbitration law, trade law and internet law. Prior to his position with LALIVE Attorneys-at-Law in Geneva, he served as Secretary General and Senior Claims Judge of the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland (2001-2002); Director of the Institute of International Economic Law of the University of Helsinki (1998-2000); Deputy Chief of the Legal Service of the UN Compensation Commission (1994-1998); and Legal Advisor with the Iran-US Claims Tribunal in the Hague (1990-1994). He lectured in various institutions, including at the University of Helsinki and the Hague Academy of International Law; has been a Visiting Scholar with the UN University in Tokyo (1999); he worked for the Arbitration Commission of the International Conference for the Former Yugoslavia (1993); and was also a member of the Steering Committee on International Mass Claims Processes at the Permanent Court of Arbitration. He is the author of numerous publications on international law; international arbitration and dispute settlements.
Mr. Norbert Wühler (Germany) is an international member of the KPCC. He graduated and received his doctorate in law from the University of Heidelberg. He is currently Director of Reparation Programmes at the International Organization for Migration. His previous positions include Chief of the Legal Services Branch of the United Nations Compensation Commission (1992-2000), Legal Adviser to the President and Deputy Secretary-General of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal (1983-1991), research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (1978-1983) and attorney admitted to the bars of Heidelberg and Mannheim (1979-1983). He has been chairman, member and secretary of several international arbitral tribunals, has been an adviser to the Commission for Real Property Claims in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission, and is a member of the Steering Committee on Mass Claims Processes at the Permanent Court of Arbitration and of an Expert Advisory Group on Victims Participation and Reparations at the International Criminal Court. He has taught and published on international property and compensation claims, dispute resolution, state responsibility and international arbitration.
Mr Adem Vokshi (Kosovo) is the national member of the KPCC. He obtained his law degree in 1975 from the University of Prishtinë/Priština. From 1975 to 1978, he practiced as an attorney with the District Court of Pejë/Peć and from 1978 to 1982, he served as a judge in the District Court of Mitrovicë/Mitrovica. From 1982 until 2009 he worked in private practice in Mitrovicë/Mitrovica, specialising in civil and administrative law. From 2004 to 2006 he served as President of the Kosovo Chamber of Advocates. He has lectured and presented seminars on a variety of legal issues for national and international institutions, including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the European Council, the Kosovo Judicial Institute and the Kosovo Chamber of Advocates. Topics covered include trial advocacy, evidence, representation of parties in civil proceedings, provision of legal remedies for minority groups in Kosovo, implementation of contested, uncontested and executive procedure, victim’s protection, measures to ensure transparency and anti-corruption in the Kosovo judicial system and the prevention of financial crime. He has also conducted seminars on the provision of free legal relief. Since 2002, he has lectured in civil procedure for candidates training for the bar exam and, since 2008, on civil procedure for candidates training as judges. Mr Vokshi has appeared before courts at all levels in Kosovo including in the Municipal, District and Supreme Courts. He is former member of Kosovo Judicial Council. |