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Lic. Adriana San Román, M.A.

Lic. Adriana San Román, M.A.

Position

Arbitration, Damages, Infrastructure, Energy

Career

Lic. Adriana San Román, M.A. Finance & Investment (Exeter) has more than twenty years of experience as attorney and financial analyst, having worked in the areas of corporate banking, financial engineering and project finance. She is an internationally recognized counsel and damages expert in arbitrations involving large infrastructure, construction and technology cases, particularly concerning the formulation of damages claims. She is currently damages expert in a multi-million ICDR arbitration related to oil platforms and a turnkey project for the construction and operation of an aqueduct, while being party counsel in a tariff dispute in an ICC power purchase agreement arbitration. Ms. San Román was a Ford Foundation Scholar at the University of Exeter where she obtained an M.A. in Finance & Investment, and foreign associate with Mayer, Brown & Platt in New York. As an attorney at law as first profession, she also passed the first level of the Chartered Financial Analyst exam. Her extensive experience in the Mexican banking sector includes her leadership role in several IFC projects. She is principal author of the book “Damages in International Arbitration Under Complex Long-Term Contracts” published in the Oxford International Arbitration Series. She frequently acts as damages consultant and quantification expert in international arbitrations. Thomson Reuters Practical Law Arbitration recently interviewed her as prominent woman in international arbitration.

Languages

Spanish, English and German

Memberships

Member of the ICCA-ASIL Task Force on Damages in International Arbitrationk, ICC

Education

M.A. in Finance & Investment, University of Exeter, UK Passed the first level of the Chartered Financial Analyst Exam (CFA Institute, New York) Licenciado en Derecho, Mexico Diploma in Finance, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Leisure

Golf, music, skiing