At the same time the France-UAE agreement was being ratified, the PCA enlisted the services of Christophe Bondy to consider means of further enhancing the PCA’s effectiveness in the resolution of international art and cultural property disputes. Past and potential cases include claims for the recovery of spoliated art, claims regarding cultural property removed in violation of international export restrictions, general international title disputes, demands for repatriation of indigenous and colonial cultural property, and violations of international protections of cultural property in armed conflict.

Christophe is a Canadian lawyer, also admitted to the Paris bar, and a graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. He is a specialist both in international arbitration (which he practiced both in Canada and from 2000 to 2006 in Paris), and in international art and cultural property law. He is currently senior counsel to the Canadian Government in international investment treaty disputes and international trade law matters.