About

Claudia is a multilingual seasoned legal professional with a passion for navigating complex legal landscapes. Her expertise ranges across diverse sectors including oil and gas, mining, renewable energy, lithium, aeronautics and arbitration. Her professional journey began in the academia, as a young professor and law school coordinator (vice dean) in Bolivia, lecturing students on legal theory, constitutional law, international law, negotiation, conciliation, arbitration and oil and gas law, between 2000 and 2019 at public and private universities.  

She graduated as JD at Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, UPSA (Bolivia) where she also completed a master’s in business law and several postgraduate programmes. In 2004 she was awarded a Fulbritht – LASPAU scholarship to pursue an LLM in international legal studies at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. Soon after she became the only Bolivian national to be awarded a United Nations Fulbright Fellowship (2005) and she was commended on mission at United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA) in Vienna, Austria. She is also certified in Advanced Project Management (APM) by Stanford University.  

During her professional journey she has navigated the complexities of hydrocarbon nationalisation in Bolivia, protecting legal value of circa USD$ 700 m dollars transitioning to new operational contracts for business continuity of many IOCs. As an Independent Expert on the abandonment of 32 oil wells in Colpa Caranda, she handled and determined liabilities in a significant USD$ 30m conflict. She has championed best practices in the energy sector as legal counsel of the board of directors of the Hydrocarbon and Energy Chamber in Bolivia.  

As a consultant at Gas Transboliviano (GTB) she played a pivotal role in crafting new transportation contracts and exportation gas tariffs to Brazil. As GTB’s general counsel, during the Covid-19 pandemic, she provided important company support on business continuity and crisis management. She has supported M&A transactions, miscellaneous expert service contracts in upstream, midstream, including surface (FIDIC) and well supply agreements. She has handled complex commercial negotiations and also community and indigenous compensation agreements.  

Since 2018, she expanded her consultancy to lithium projects, advising ACI Systems Alemania Gmbh (ACISA) in the first JV for lithium extraction and industrialization in Uyuni, a 300-million-dollar project.  

She has served as a member of the board in several non-profit organizations, contributing to fund raising and project development. She has been a member of the Global ICC Arbitration Committee (2022-2024) and is presently the vice president of ICC Bolivia and the Chair of the Energy and Environment Commission; member of the Spanish Arbitration Club (Spain); Mining Mediation and Arbitration Center (CAMMIN – Chile); and the Conciliation and Arbitration Center of CAINCO (Bolivia). 

She has participated as a speaker in conferences worldwide, representing the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC Bolivia) at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 27) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (Nov.2022); at the first meeting of the transition committee for the operationalisation and financing arrangements to address damages and losses resulting from climate impacts, in Luxor, Egypt (March 2023); at the Forum of the Finance Committee for financing just transitions, in Bangkok, Thailand (July 2023), followed by the First Workshop under the Sharm El Sheikh Dialogue on Article 2, paragraph 1 of the Paris Agreement and its complementarity with Article 9, and also at the World Energy Council (WEC), Future Energy Leaders Congress in Istambul, Turkey (Sept 2016), contributing to the Paris Agreement goals and Energy Transition towards a greener, more resilient, and inclusive world. She is also an active contributor of the Moses Project between Texas A&M University and UPSA in Bolivia.  

Nowadays, she has dabbled in telecommunications as the recently appointed legal manager of Telecel (TIGO Bolivia), a Millicom group subsidiary, and she continues to provide consultancy services on energy projects, DLE lithium, and other mineral ventures. She feels passionate about the SDGs, climate change and the pivotal role of policy and technology in the energy transition to a greener, more resilient, and inclusive world.