Dr. Christian W. Konrad,
Austria

In a world where geopolitical tensions unsettle investments and sovereignty is being redefined, Dr. Christian W. Konrad guides his clients through severe turbulence and charts the right course when legal systems collide. Rarely in the political foreground, more often at the heart of actual disputes.
Konrad is the Founder and Managing Partner of Konrad Partners, an internationally focused law firm specialising in international arbitration, investment protection, and public international law.
Admitted in Vienna and London, and before the DIFC Courts of the United Arab Emirates, he operates confidently across distinct legal systems and procedural cultures—between civil law and common law, between sovereign states, international organisations, and global corporations.
His practice includes highly complex disputes concerning long-term energy contracts, major infrastructure projects, concessions, natural resource rights, and failed investments, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, Africa, and increasingly in the Gulf region. He acts both as counsel and as arbitrator, including in proceedings before the ICC, LCIA, VIAC, PCA, and SIAC. His focus lies on contract architecture, investment protection, and the enforcement of international arbitral awards.
What defines his work is a sober, system-oriented approach to the law. He is less interested in rhetorical formulas than in legal frameworks that withstand conflict. In this context, he has developed a particular interest in legal environments beyond Europe. For him, the United Arab Emirates exemplify a rule-based, institutionally coherent framework that enables international dispute resolution while offering economic reliability.
Konrad often exchanges the richly green Vienna Woods for the dunes of the Rub’ al Khali. In the apparent vastness of the desert, he finds greater clarity than in the regulatory thicket of Europe.
At B-Safe26, Dr. Christian W. Konrad outlines the opportunities that emerge beyond the DACH region—and how entrepreneurs, investors, and decision-makers can assess different legal systems with strategic realism. His contribution offers orientation for those who, in a multipolar world, seek not merely to react, but to expand their horizons deliberately.