On Wednesday 27 April Jose Daniel Amado discussed “10 Reasons Why International Arbitration is Truly International” with hosts Dr Kabir Duggal and Amanda Lee. The recording will be available in due course. Jose Daniel Amado was tagged by Swee Yen Koh SC; He, in turn, tagged Valeria Galíndez.

You can view the recording here.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Jose Daniel Amado is the founding partner of Miranda & Amado in Lima, Peru.  Mr Amado graduated with greatest honors from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, where he has taught domestic and international arbitration for the last two decades.  He holds an LLM from Harvard University, where was awarded the Laylin Prize of international law.  As counsel, Mr Amado has participated in many of the largest business transactions and commercial and investment disputes involving Peru in the last few decades.  In 2009, Latin Lawyer magazine named Mr Amado as its Law Firm Leader of the Year.  Mr Amado has also served in various capacities within the Government of Peru, including as deputy to the prime minister and chief of advisors to the council of ministers.  Mr Amado regularly sits as an arbitrator in Peru and other venues, and has been a member of the Court of Arbitration of the Lima Chamber of Commerce.  In recent years, Mr Amado has been a Visiting Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at the Lauterpacht Centre of International Law and the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Latin American studies.  His recent publications include Arbitrating the Conduct of International Investors (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Mr Amado is also a Delos board member.