Bernardo Sepúlveda-Amor has focused his professional activity on matters related to international dispute resolution through judicial or diplomatic means and, since 2015, in the area of international arbitration. He is Of Counsel at Creel, García Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez.
Judge of the International Court of Justice (2006-2015). He was the Vice-President of that institution, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. (2012-2015)
Ad Hoc Judge of the International Court of Justice in the Case concerning Avena and other Mexican Nationals (Mexico v. the United States).
President of several arbitration tribunals in cases under the UNCITRAL rules, administered by the Permanent Court of Arbitration. He has also chaired arbitration tribunals under ICSID rules. He has acted as co-arbitrator in a significant number of cases administered by the PCA under UNCITRAL rules and in tribunals under ICSID rules, as well as an investment arbitration administered by the Stockholm Court of Arbitration. He has also been chair in ICC arbitration tribunals.
He is a member of the panel of arbitrators of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. He is also a member of the ICSID Arbitration Panel.
Member of the United Nations International Law Commission (1997-2005)
President of the United Nations Commission on Transnational Corporations (1980).
Member of the Institut de Droit International.
Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico (1982-1988) and Ambassador in Washington and London. He is Ambassador Emeritus of Mexico since 2017.