Legal Director

Graduate in law from the Carlos III University of Madrid; He completed his studies at the same University with a Master's Degree in Business Legal Consulting. It also has accreditation, at Member level, from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Specialized in commercial, national and international arbitration, she has been a lawyer at the Spanish Court of Arbitration for more than ten years, attached to the General Secretariat, as well as in-house counsel for the Spanish Chamber of Commerce where she provides legal assistance to the different units. of the Business Area of ​​a preventive, pre-litigation and litigation nature, in the commercial, civil, and administrative areas (Public Procurement).

He is also part of the work team of the Arbitration and Mediation Service of the International Arbitration Center of Madrid (CIAM).

She combines her work with her academic activity as a professor at the CEU San Pablo University where she teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in commercial arbitration, in addition to collaborating in publications and actively participating in conferences and seminars specialized in the subject.

He is a member of ICAM, Club Español del Arbitraje (CEA), International Bar Association (IBA), ICC World Chambers Federation.

María Arias