Sören Öman is chairman (presiding judge) of the Swedish National Labour Court and holds a Master of Laws from Stockholm University (1985). He has extensive experience in arbitration, labour law, data protection and other fields of law. He regularly works as special investigator, or expert, for the Swedish government in various legal matters, at present reviewing the legislation on data protection in the health care and social services sectors. For ten years he was the director, part-time, of a research institute (Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law) at Stockholm University and worked as a legal consultant. He has also worked several years as legal adviser in the Swedish Ministry of Justice and been senior legal adviser and head of staff unit at the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care.Sören Öman has since the beginning of the 1990’s been involved in over 90 arbitral proceedings in general commercial and labour law disputes. The ICC International Court of Arbitration, the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, the Chief Judge of the Swedish National Labour Court, a Swedish Court of Appeal, the Stockholm District Court, parties and co-arbitrators have appointed him as arbitrator in both international and domestic arbitral proceedings.Homepage: www.sorenoman.se/in-english/home/