Berk combines practice as counsel, arbitrator, and expert in investment treaty and international commercial arbitration cases, alongside his academic career. He has over 15 years of international arbitration experience and holds a Ph.D. in International Investment Law from the University of Cambridge in the UK. His thesis “Judicial Acts and Investment Treaty Arbitration” was published by Cambridge University Press and was awarded in 2017 the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) World Business Law Prize. Berk holds a tenured professor (docent) position at the Galatasaray University Law School in Istanbul, where he teaches International Investment Law and Arbitration, International Commercial Disputes, and Private International Law. He also taught at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) of the Queen Mary, University of London. Berk is a member of the ISTAC Expert Commissions on the Revision of the ISTAC Arbitration Rules and a Turkish National Committee member of the ICC. He was among the core team who drafted the ISTAC Med-Arb Rules, the world’s first-ever med-arb rules released by an arbitration institution. Berk is also responsible for all contributions regarding Turkey on the 1958 New York Convention Guide database maintained by Columbia Law School in New York, as well as the “Investment Claims” database of the Oxford University Press and, more recently, has contributed to Investment Law and Arbitration Wiki for Jus Mundi. Berk is a dual-qualified lawyer, admitted to practice in England & Wales and Turkey.