Recognition and Enforcement of International Commercial Arbitral Awards in Latin America

Omar Garcia-Bolivar is an international lawyer, arbitrator, public policy consultant and business consultant. He has law degrees from South America, the USA, and the United Kingdom, including doctoral studies in Foreign Investments Law and Policy, University of Edinburgh (1997). He has published widely on the subject of international law in several continents and in different languages. In 2012 he published Latin American Investment Protections with Brill/Nijhoff.

Hernando Otero is an international arbitration and mediation attorney acting as counsel of record and as an arbitrator. He is an Adjunct Professor of Arbitration and Mediation at the Washington College of Law. He has been an arbitrator in International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) proceedings. He is on the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre's (HKIAC) Panel of Arbitrators. He is also on the Bogota Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Center's list of international arbitrators for proceedings seated in Colombia and on its high-amount local arbitration list.