About Belén
Belén has been a lawyer at Altra Legal since 2014, where she is part of the Arbitration team, representing national and international clients in commercial arbitrations. She has experience assisting arbitrators in investment arbitrations before ICSID and the PCA and commercial arbitrations before various centers.
In 2015 she participated as a Speaker at the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot with UNA, and since then she has actively collaborated as a coach of the teams of the Universidad Nacional de Asunción in the Vis Moots and in the Latin American Arbitration Competitions.
She is an assistant professor of Obligations I: Facts and Legal Acts and Obligations II at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción.
Education
- Lawyer (Universidad Nacional de Asunción, 2017).
- LL.M with specialization in International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution (Georgetown University, 2020).
Memberships
- Commission on Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) appointed by the International Chamber of Commerce, Paraguay Chapter.
- Very Young Arbitration Practitioners (VYAP) Paraguay (co-founder).
- International Bar Association (IBA).
- Alumni Arbitration Board of Directors (2023-2025).
- List of arbitrators of the International Arbitration Center – Chamber of Belgium and Luxembourg in Peru.
Publications
- Recognition of national arbitral awards prior to their enforcement, The Legal Industry Review, 3rd edition (2023).
- Paraguayan Chapter of “The International Arbitration Review”, Law Business Research, co-authored with José Antonio Moreno Rodríguez, Felicita Argaña Bendlin, Lucía Cazal Zaldívar and José Antonio Moreno Bendlin (2023).
- National Implementation of International Economic Law: Paraguay, in Elgar Encyclopedia of International Economic Law Expanded Edition, Edited by Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer and Thomas Cottier (2024).
