Hernando Otero

Hernando Otero is a Fellow and a lecturer on international arbitration and mediation at the Washington College of Law Center on International Commercial Arbitration. He is the Center’s lead lecturer in its annual course on mediation theory and practice offered jointly with JAMS. He also serves as a peer-reviewed mediator with the District of Columbia’s Superior Court. He is also an Associate Mediator with a leading mediation practice, MarksADR.

He has also served as an arbitrator before the World Bank’s International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and has been appointed as an arbitrator by the International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) Court of Arbitration, the Bogota Chamber of Commerce Arbitration and Conciliation Center’s (CAC) Court of Arbitration, and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). He has appeared as counsel of record in proceedings under the ICSID Convention, the ICSID Additional Facility, and the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules pursuant to multilateral and bilateral trade and investment treaties and commercial agreements.

He is also on the London Court International Arbitration’s (LCIA) database of arbitrators and on the panel of international arbitrators of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), the Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (SHIAC), and the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA).