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Isabel San Martín is an Associate specializing in International Arbitration and Public International Law. She has experience in commercial and investment treaty arbitrations under the rules of ICSID, LCIA, UNCITRAL, SCC and CAIP, with a particular focus on Latin America and Europe. Isabel has represented clients in a variety of sectors, including renewable energy, oil and gas, mining, construction, and banking and finance, among others. She also has experience in human rights law and other areas of Public International Law.

Prior to joining LALIVE in 2021, Isabel was an Associate in King & Spalding’s International Arbitration Group in Paris.  Prior to that, Isabel worked as a Research Assistant at the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), and as a Policy Advisor at the Permanent Mission of Spain to the United Nations in New York, during Spain’s membership of the UN Security Council (2015-2016).  Isabel also trained in the litigation and arbitration departments of top tier law firms in London and Madrid, and briefly worked at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington D.C.

She is a member of the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge Young Practitioners’ Subcommittee (2020-2024) where she currently leads one of its taskforces. Isabel is one of the founders of the Comillas Alumni International Arbitration Club, and is a Representative of the IBA Young Lawyers’ Committee in the UK.  Previously she was a member of the ICC’s Task Force on Arbitration of Climate Change Related Disputes (2018-2019), and of the Global Advisory Board of ICDR Y&I (International Centre for Dispute Resolution) (2020-2022).

Isabel received her LL.B from ICADE – Universidad Pontificia de Comillas. She has an LL.M from Boston University School of Law, and a Masters’ Degree in Legal Practice from Universidad Carlos III.