MEMBERSHIPS AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • Miami International Arbitration Society (MIAS)
    • Member of the Board of Directors 2024
  • Latin American Arbitration Association (ALARB)
    • Co-Chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee (April 2023 – present)
  • Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law 
    • Vice Chair of the Special Institute on International Mining and Oil and Gas, Development, and Investment,Mexico 2023
    • Co-Chair of the Oil and Gas Contracts and Negotiation Course since 2012 organized by FENRL and AIEN
  • Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb)
  • International Law Students Association
    • Member of the Board (2020-2023)
  • Association of International Energy Negotiators (formerly AIPN)
    • Immediate Past President (2014-2015)
    • President (2013-2014)
    • President-Elect (2012-2013)
    • Vice-President (2008-2012)
    • Regional Director for Latin America (2005-2008)
  • Co-chair of the Legal Committee of AMEXHI, the Mexican Hydrocarbons Association, Mexico 2016-2018
  • Editorial Board of the Journal of World Energy Law & Business (2014-2020)
  • Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)
    • Chair, Americas Initiative (2013-2015)
    • Executive Committee member (2013-2015)
  • Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO)
    • Officer of the Venezuela Chapter (2010-2015)  
  • International Bar Association
    • Officer of the Oil and Gas Committee (2010-2015)
  • Council of the Australasian Forum for International Arbitration (AFIA).
  • New York State Bar Association
  • Miranda State Bar Association (Venezuela) (until 2015)
  • Official arbitrator of the local ICC chapter in Venezuela (Caracas Chamber of Commerce) until 2015
  • Official arbitrator of the CEDCA arbitration centre in Caracas until 2017
  • Harvard Law School Alumni Association
    • Executive Committee (2010-2014)
  • National Administrator for the Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, Venezuela (1990-2013) and President of the Philip C Jessup Foundation in Venezuela
  • Contracts Professor, Law School, Universidad Central de Venezuela (1994 – 1996)