Olga Boltenko

Olga Boltenko

Arbitrator and arbitration counsel at Boltenko Arbiters

Ms. Boltenko is a deputy executive director at The University of Hong Kong, where she teaches a master of laws degree in arbitration and ADR with a focus on Belt & Road investment law. She is also a professor of law at the Royal University of Law and Economics in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where she teaches a course in investment law at the dual degree program with the Free University of Brussels.

Biography

Ms. Boltenko is an investment and trade lawyer with over fifteen years of experience in public international law, investor-State dispute resolution, and commercial arbitration. She has acted as legal counsel in investor-State disputes under the auspices of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the ICSID, the SCC, the ICC, the LCIA, and as a tribunal secretary in dozens of commercial disputes in a wide array of industries including oil and gas, mining, infrastructure, construction, telecommunications and pharmaceuticals, across Asia and beyond. Most recently with Fangda Partners in Hong Kong, Ms. Boltenko has also practised with leading arbitration teams in Paris and Singapore.

In 2005, Ms. Boltenko graduated with honors from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation as a specialist in public international law. In 2006, she obtained a Master of Laws degree in French and EU law in Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.