Jan-Michael Ahrens

Jan Ahrens is Principal Counsel Dispute Resolution at Siemens AG and responsible for managing major disputes worldwide, across all business areas. Jan is a German lawyer and also qualified to practice in England & Wales and Switzerland. He holds a PhD from Freiburg University and an LLM from Geneva and Lausanne Universities. Before joining Siemens in 2009, Jan Ahrens practiced with a leading Swiss law firm in Geneva in the field of international arbitration and worked as a legal counsel for a major European pharmaceutical company. Since 2002, Jan has been acting as counsel, managing in-house counsel and arbitrator in numerous international arbitrations and he is a regular lecturer in the field.