Secrétaire général honoraire de l’International Council for Commercial arbitration, ancien Secrétaire général adjoint du CIRDI

Antonio R. Parra is currently a Consultant with the Corporate Secretariat of the World Bank. From 1984 to 2005, he held positions at the World Bank Group as Counsel, World Bank; Senior Counsel, World Bank; Senior Counsel, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID); Legal Adviser, ICSID; and Deputy Secretary-General, ICSID. His earlier positions included Assistant Legal Counsel, OPEC Fund for International Development. He is Honorary Secretary-General of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (Secretary-General from 2004 to 2010); a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the ICSID Review – Foreign Investment Law Journal (Editor in Chief from 2003 to 2007 and Managing Editor from 1986 to 2003); a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; and a member of the Executive Committee of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre. He holds a doctorate in law from the University of Geneva and has published a book on ICSID and 45 articles and contributions to edited volumes.