Profile

Hernando Otero is a Fellow at the American University Washington College of Law Center on International Commercial Arbitration where he teaches arbitration and mediation. He also serves as a mediator with the District of Columbia's Superior Court. He has 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) in the United States. He has also 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 (FTAs and BITs) and commercial agreements. Hernando Otero is 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).