First, about Joe Tirado, the author
Joe Tirado has over 30 years of dispute resolution experience and has handled hundreds of cases across a broad range of sectors as counsel, arbitrator, mediator, conciliator, adjudicator and expert determiner in more than 70 jurisdictions. Joe is a partner and former Co-Head of International Arbitration and ADR at leading Spanish and Latin American firm, Garrigues.
Joe has represented sovereign governments, multi-national corporations and high net worth individuals. He has conducted and advised on international commercial and investment arbitration under all the major international arbitration rules before the leading international arbitration institutions as well as “pure” ad hoc and UNCITRAL arbitration. He has also conducted and advised on a number of mediations and other alternative dispute resolution processes.
Joe is a solicitor-advocate with full rights of audience before all civil courts in England & Wales, an accredited commercial and Investor-State mediator, a Civil Mediation Council Fellow, an ICSID conciliator and a panel member of a number of leading invitation-only arbitration and mediation panels, including the European Union and the United Nations.
Joe has been recognized as a ranked individual for international arbitration and ADR in leading legal directories since 2007. He has been described as “first class” and “an excellent specialist” who offers “out-of-the-box solutions to very complex problems”. He is “best known for his work on energy-related disputes, but is also recognized for his financial services and public international law expertise”.
Joe is also a past Co-Chair of the IBA Mediation Committee.
Special thanks to Mr. Joe Tirado and Transnational Dispute Management for sharing this article with us. Thanks to Mr. Mark Appel the co-author as well. Investor-State Mediation- New Tools for Policy Makers can also be found here:
M. Appel; J.M. Tirado; “Investor-State Mediation – New Tools for Policy Makers”