Biography: Arbitration

Dr Claudia Frutos-Peterson is a key member of the highly ranked international arbitration group at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP. As a senior consultant, she focuses her practice on investor-state arbitrations under bilateral and multilateral agreements and works with multiple governments and state entities. She has represented foreign states in investor-state arbitrations under the Arbitration Rules of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).

Prior to joining Curtis, Dr Frutos-Peterson spent eight years as counsel at ICSID, where she served as secretary of tribunals in numerous arbitral proceedings brought under the ICSID Convention and the ICSID Additional Facility Mechanism, based on investment treaties and international agreements.

Dr Frutos-Peterson is an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law in Washington, DC, where she teaches courses on international commercial arbitration as well as a summer course conducted in Spanish on investor-state arbitration. She is a frequent speaker at conferences related to her practice and a member of Latin American Group of the CCI and of the Latin American Association of Arbitration (ALArb). She is also the author of the book L'émergence de l'arbitrage commercial international en Amérique latine: l'efficacité de son droit, published by L'Harmattan and she also has published several articles on arbitration.

Dr Frutos-Peterson earned an LLM in international legal studies from Georgetown University Law Center and a Master's degree in international economic law from University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. She also holds a Doctorate in law from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. She is fluent in English, Spanish and French.