Expert profile

Iryna Akulenka

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Highlights

A RICS registered expert witness with nearly 20 years of experience.
Acted as lead assistant and led a team of assistants on quantum matters.
Dual-qualified in electrical engineering and construction law and arbitration.#
Hands-on project management experience in commercial, financial and technical delivery.
Multi-lingual in Russian, Belarusian, and English.

Services

Construction Quantum

Industries

Buildings | Industrial & Manufacturing | Transportation Infrastructure | Oil & Gas | Power & Utilities

Iryna is diligent, focused, proficient and technically astute in quantum matters. Iryna thinks outside of the box. She considers issues from first principles and builds the case logically and professionally.
Lexology Index - Construction - Future Leader

Expertise

Iryna Akulenka is a registered expert witness with nearly 20 years of experience. She has assisted the named experts on numerous occasions.

Iryna has acted as lead assistant and led a team of assistants on quantum matters in litigation, adjudication, arbitration, and dispute boards across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, the UK, Oman, South Africa, Tanzania, and CIS countries.

Iryna specializes in complex contracts, quantum, and contract administration disputes involving assessing final accounts, quantifying variations, prolongation and disruption, damages due to termination, cost escalation and idle time claims, and other types of financial damages, losses, and expenses. She has been involved in several disputes across the energy sector, including wind farms, hydropower plants, and other types of power plants.

Professional recognition

Lexology Index

Construction – Future Leader
Arbitration – Future Leader

Iryna is a practical, solution-oriented practitioner who demonstrates strong commercial awareness. Her responsiveness and ability to quickly adapt to new information and evolving case dynamics is noteworthy and adds real value to the arbitration process. She possesses strong numerical and analytical skills, coupled with an excellent command of industry standards and methodologies.
Lexology Index - Arbitration - Future Leader

Background

Iryna has a background in electrical engineering with project management and dispute experience across various international projects, including buildings, medical facilities, power (hydro, geothermal, gas-fired, combined-cycle gas turbine), transport infrastructure, oil and gas, refining plants, and manufacturing facilities. She teaches international arbitration with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has been nominated for a prestigious Middle East Consultant Award in the category ‘Women in Construction – Professional of the Year’.

Iryna is dual-qualified with a degree in electrical engineering and a master’s in construction law and dispute resolution. She is a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and sits as an arbitrator in construction and property disputes. Iryna is a panel member of the UK Adjudicators, a member of the steering committee for ICC UAE (Commission on Arbitration and ADR) and sits on advisory boards for the American University and British University in Dubai. She is also a member of the Society of Construction Law, the International Chamber of Commerce (UAE), the Arbitrator Intelligence, the Caspian Arbitration Society, Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge (ERA Pledge) Middle East Sub-Committee, and Equal Representation for Expert Witnesses Pledge (ERE Pledge) Middle East Committee.

Qualifications

MSc Construction Law and Dispute Resolution
BE Electrical Engineering
Arbitration Practice and Procedure and Arbitral Award Writing
RICS Registered Expert Witness

Professional Memberships

FCIArb, SCL, ICC (UAE), UKA, CAS, MRICS, Arbitrator Intelligence, Arbitrator (AIAC, DIAC, HKIAC, VIAC, IAC, TIAC, LCIA, EDAC, ISTAC, Chamber of Arbitrators Belarus, APIAC, ADGM)