Roberto Carlos Hermida

Professional experience

Roberto Carlos Hermida graduated from the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires in 1979. He has extensive experience in arbitration and international law. He has been practicing law for 42 years, in Commercial Law, Insurance Law, International Law, and Arbitration. Since 2017, he is representative of the Civil and Commercial Court of Arbitration (CIMA), in the Republic of Argentina, in order to promote activities aimed at the development of National and International Commercial Arbitration in the region.

Among others, he has been Counselor at the Embassy of the Argentine Republic in Washington DC, United States of America and among the functions assigned to him, he acted with the Argentine Treasury Attorney's Office in the defense of the country before the ICSID Arbitration Tribunals.  Between 2002 and 2003 Roberto was a consultant for the World Bank, coordinating the project of Pension Reform in Honduras, and directed the training of the body of inspectors of the Superintendence of Insurance and Pensions of Honduras. He has also been an advisor to the Honorable Senate of Argentina, in the Transportation and Fuels Commissions.

Education

• 1989 / 1990
  Curso de Seguros y Reaseguros
  Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE)
• 1988
  Estudios de Post-Grado, como Abogado especializado en Asesoramiento de Empresas
  Universidad Catolica Argentina
• 1979
  Titulo de Abogado
  Facultad de Derecho Universidad de Buenos Aires

Languages

• Spanish
• English

Memberships and recognitions

• 2017
  Corte Civil y Mercantil de Arbitraje (CIMA)
  Arbitro, y representante en la Argentina
  Madrid, Spain
• 2017
  Club Español de Arbitraje
  Socio
  Madrid, Spain
• 1986
  Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid (ICAM)
  Madrid, Spain
• 1982
  Colegio Público de Abogados de la Capital Federal
  Buenos Aires, Argentina

Publications

• Revista de Arbitraje Comercial y de Inversiones  del Instituto Universitario de Estudios Europeos CEU San Pablo de Madrid. “El alcance de las Cláusulas de Nación más Favorecida en los Acuerdos para la Promoción y Protección Recíproca de Inversiones: vexata quæstio o “una tierra de nadie ferozmente disputada en el Derecho internacional” – Volumen VII (2014-2);  
• El contrato de arbitraje en el nuevo Código Civil y Comercial de la Nación Argentina: Ley 26.994 – Volumen VIII (2015-3)
• Co-autor del Libro “Derechos y Garantías en el Siglo XXI”, (Abril 1999), conjuntamente con los Dres. Aída Kemelmajer de Carlucci, Alberto Spota, Agustín Gordillo, Jorge Mosset Iturraspe, Ricardo Lorenzetti y otros.