Furthermore, he has worked at the department of international commercial arbitration of the TCM Asser Institute (1978–1980) and as private assistant to Professor Pieter Sanders (1975–1978).
Albert Jan van den Berg is and has been sole, presiding and party-appointed arbitrator in numerous international arbitrations (ad hoc, American Arbitration Association (AAA/ICDR), Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement (DRCAFTA), Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA), [1] (DIAC), Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), LCIA, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), NAI, Organization for the Harmonization of Corporate Law in Africa (OHADA), Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) relating to, inter alia, airports, banking, broadcasting, construction, defence projects, distributorship, electricity and gas supply, fashion, futures and options, gambling, information technology, insurance and reinsurance, investments, joint ventures, licensing, media, mining, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, post-M&A, post-privatization, professional associations, sales, satellites, shale gas, solar energy, sports, tax, telecom and turnkey projects.
Fluent in Dutch, English, and French, Albert Jan van den Berg has authored and edited numerous publications on various topics of international arbitration.
Albert Jan van den Berg is also the author of the website http://www.newyorkconvention.org, a website that provides access to information regarding the New York Convention in general, its history, its interpretation and application by the courts, a bibliography, and other relevant matters such as a “draft” for a revised New York Convention, authored by Albert Jan van den Berg himself.
According to the report, van den Berg supported contradictory outcomes in two cases brought against Argentina following the state's economic crisis in 2001/2002 even though the facts and reasoning of defence of both lawsuits were nearly identical.