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BERNARDO SEP\u00daLVEDA AMOR IS OF COUNSEL AT CREEL, GARC\u00cdA-CU\u00c9LLAR, AIZA Y ENR\u00cdQUEZ, S.C., AND A MEMBER OF THE ARBITRATION AND INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION PRACTICE.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Judge Sep\u00falveda’s practice centres on international arbitration and public international law. He serves as presiding arbitrator and co-arbitrator in investor-State and commercial disputes before leading international institutions, including the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) under UNCITRAL Rules, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), and the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n

Judge Sep\u00falveda served as Judge of the International Court of Justice in The Hague from 2006 to 2015 and was elected Vice-President of the Court from 2012 to 2015. He previously served as ad hoc Judge of the International Court of Justice in the Case concerning Avena and other Mexican Nationals (Mexico v. The United States)<\/em>. He was a member of the United Nations International Law Commission from 1997 to 2005 and President of the United Nations Commission on Transnational Corporations in 1980.<\/p>\n

In the public sector, Judge Sep\u00falveda served as Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 1982 to 1988, Ambassador to the United States in 1982, and Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1989 to 1993. Earlier in his career, he held senior positions at Mexico’s Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, including General Director of International Affairs from 1976 to 1980 and Director of the Foreign Investment Program (1971 to 1975). From 1968 to 1970, he served as Legal Counsel to the Mexican President’s Office. He was also General Counsel of Empresas ICA, S.A.B. de C.V. from 1997 to 2005.<\/p>\n

Judge Sep\u00falveda has received multiple distinctions, including the National Jurisprudence Award from the Barra Mexicana Colegio de Abogados in 2014 and the Medal for International Administrative Merit from Mexico’s National Institute for Public Administration in 2014. In 1984, King Juan Carlos I of Spain conferred the Pr\u00edncipe de Asturias Award<\/em> in recognition of his contribution to peace in Central America, and in 1985 UNESCO granted him the Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar Award<\/em>. He is also Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George<\/em> (United Kingdom), Grand Officier de la L\u00e9gion d’Honneur<\/em> (France), and Gran Cruz de la Orden de Isabel la Cat\u00f3lica<\/em> (Spain).<\/p>\n

He is an Ambassador Emeritus of Mexico, a distinction conferred by the President of the Republic in 2017 in recognition of his distinguished career in diplomacy and public service. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alt\u00e1n, the company responsible for expanding internet connectivity across Mexico’s national territory. A prolific author, he has published extensively on foreign policy, international relations, and international arbitration, contributing to the scholarly and professional discourse in areas at the intersection of law, diplomacy, and global commerce. He has served as Of Counsel at Creel, Garc\u00eda-Cu\u00e9llar, Aiza y Enr\u00edquez since 2015, where he draws on decades of high-level experience in international affairs to advise on complex cross-border matters.<\/p>\n

Judge Sep\u00falveda obtained his law degree, magna cum laude, from the Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico (UNAM) in 1964 and his Master’s Degree in International Law from the University of Cambridge in 1966. In the academic field, he has been professor of International Law at El Colegio de M\u00e9xico and has lectured at foreign universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, NYU, Cornell, Barcelona, and Valencia. In October 2016, the Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico designated him as Extraordinary Investigator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34173,"template":"","cltvo_tipo_abogado":[66],"class_list":["post-8844","abogados","type-abogados","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cltvo_tipo_abogado-counselors"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBernardo Sep\u00falveda Amor -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creel.mx\/en\/our-lawyers\/sepulveda-amor-bernardo-en\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bernardo Sep\u00falveda Amor -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BERNARDO SEP\u00daLVEDA AMOR IS OF COUNSEL AT CREEL, GARC\u00cdA-CU\u00c9LLAR, AIZA Y ENR\u00cdQUEZ, S.C., AND A MEMBER OF THE ARBITRATION AND INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION PRACTICE. 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