Gabriela Alvarez-Avila is a partner at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP’s International Arbitration group. She has focused her practice on arbitration, international law and investment law. Ms. Alvarez-Avila has experience in transactions involving a wide range of sectors, including infrastructure projects, electricity, telecommunications, and oil and gas. She has acted as counsel for foreign states in investor-state arbitrations conducted under the Arbitration Rules of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). Before joining Curtis, Ms. Alvarez-Avila was a counsel with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in Washington, D.C., where she administered arbitrations as secretary of tribunals, hearing cases in English, Spanish, and French. The arbitration proceedings in which she was a participant included claims based on bilateral investment treaties, national investment laws, and international contracts. She has been cited for her work in international arbitration by Chambers Global and Chambers Latin America. Ms. Alvarez-Avila earned a degree of law from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and a master in law with a specialization in international law from Université de Genève. She is a candidate for a Ph.D in International Relations with a specialization in International Law at Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales, Université de Genève.