
Diego P. Fernández Arroyo

Diego P. Fernández Arroyo
Short bio
PROFESSOR OF LAW, SCIENCES PO LAW SCHOOL
DIRECTOR, LLM IN TRANSNATIONAL ARBITRATION & DISPUTE SETTLEMENT
COMMERCIAL AND INVESTMENT ARBITRATION
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW
PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW
LATIN-AMERICAN LAW
Diego P. Fernández Arroyo is a full professor at Sciences Po Law School in Paris. He teaches subjects related to international dispute resolution, arbitration, private and public international law, comparative law, and global governance, and he is the director of the Sciences Po LLM in Transnational Arbitration & Dispute Settlement.
Professor Fernández Arroyo is the current President of the Curatorium of the HagueAcademy of International Law, a member of the Institut de droit international, the current President of the International Academy of Arbitration Law, as well as former President of the American Association of Private International Law (ASADIP), and former Secretary-General of the International Academy of Comparative Law. He has been invited in a number of Universities of Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia and he has been a Global Professor of New York University. He holds honorary professorships from the Universities of Córdoba and Buenos Aires and has been awarded Doctor honoris causa by the University of Athens.
He has been a member of the Argentine Delegation before UNCITRAL (Working Groups on Arbitration and on ISDS Reform) since 2003. He is actively involved in the practice of international arbitration as an independent arbitrator. He has acted as Co-arbitrator, Chair, Sole Arbitrator, and Emergency Arbitrator in many arbitral proceedings, both ad hoc (including UNCITRAL) and institutional (ICC, ICSID, PCA, Milan Arbitration Chamber, Bogota Chamber of Commerce, Lima Chamber of Commerce, Brazilian Center of Mediation and Arbitration, Câmara do Mercado, etc.). He is a member of the ICSID panels of arbitrators and conciliators appointed by Argentina. Professor Fernández Arroyo has authored and/or edited 28 books and more than 200 articles in publications of more than 20 countries. He is fluent in Spanish, French, English, Italian and Portuguese.
