David W. Rivkin is an independent arbitrator affiliated with Arbitration Chambers in New York, London, and Hong Kong. For more than 40 years, Mr. Rivkin practiced private and public international law at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, where he served as Co-Chair of its International Dispute Resolution Group for more than 20 years and was a founder of its Business Integrity/ESG Group. He now serves as a full-time arbitrator and mediator, focusing on complex international commercial arbitrations and investor-state disputes.

Chambers Global 2022 identified him as one of the top 10 arbitration practitioners worldwide. In 2012, the American Lawyer’s AmLaw Litigation Daily named Rivkin one of two “Global Lawyers of the Year.” In 2011, the National Law Journal named him one of the country’s “Most Influential Attorneys.” In 2015-16, Mr. Rivkin served as President of the International Bar Association—he was the first American to serve in that position in 25 years. Rivkin serves on the Council of the American Law Institute, for which he is also an adviser to several of its Restatements, and he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. The U.S. State and Commerce Departments appointed him to be a founding member of the NAFTA Advisory Committee on Private Commercial Disputes, and he has been appointed to other government committees. Rivkin is Co-Chair of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre and a member of the International Council for Arbitration in Sport, for which he served as an arbitrator at the 2002, 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games. Rivkin graduated magna cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. in history and received a J.D. from Yale in 1980. Spouse/partner Marilyn A. Rivkin.