CENTER CONTACTS

Horacio A. Grigera Naon
Center Director and Distinguished Practitioner in Residence
hnaon@wcl.american.edu
202 895-4531

Dr. Horacio Grigera Naón is an independent international arbitrator and consultant on business and international law matters. He is a former Secretary General of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce and has been a practitioner in the field of international commercial arbitration and international business law for over twenty-five years. Dr. Grigera Naón has also widely published in those areas.

Dr. Grigera Naón is also a member of the American Law Institute, former Special Counsel with White & Case LLP and former Senior Counsel with the International Finance Corporation in Washington D.C. He is a member of the Argentine Federal, New York, District of Columbia, and United States Supreme Court Bars.

Claudia Frutos-Peterson
Adjunct Professor/Head of Publications and Senior Consultant, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP
cfrutos-peterson@curtis.com
(202) 452-7363

Claudia Frutos-Peterson is a Consultant in the Washington office of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP where she concentrates her practice in International arbitration.  Prior to joining Curtis, Ms. Frutos-Peterson worked as legal counsel at the World Bank Group’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). As Counsel at ICSID, Ms. Frutos-Peterson served as secretary of tribunals in numerous arbitral proceedings brought under the ICSID Convention and the ICSID Additional Facility Mechanism. In March 2003, Ms. Frutos-Peterson published a book on international commercial arbitration in Latin America. She is adjunct professor at American University’s Washington College of Law teaching International Commercial Arbitration. Ms. Frutos-Peterson received her law degree at the University of Nuevo León, in Monterrey, Mexico. She also received a Master’s Degree in International Economic Law and a Doctorate in International Commercial Arbitration in Latin America, with highest honors, from the University of Paris-I ( (Panthéon-Sorbonne).

Susana Castiglione
Assistant Director
castiglione@wcl.american.edu
202 274-4321

Susana Castiglione is the Assistant Director of the Center on International Commercial Arbitration where she is responsible for the Center’s activities including the International Arbitration Summer Program, Seminar and Lectures as well as providing research and support for all international arbitration courses and activities at WCL.

Susana is a lawyer from Argentina where she litigated environmental, tort, malpractice, and labor law cases for more than ten years. In 1992 she joined Kattan Environmental Law Firm where she conducted public interest advocacy.  Susana also taught Civil Law and Environmental Law at the University of Buenos Aires. Prior to joining the Center on International Commercial Arbitration she worked as an independent consultant on international and comparative environmental and health law issues for international organizations.  She has several legal publications, including: Legislation for the Control and Management of Hospital Infections (2007), Management of Dead Bodies in Disaster Situations (2004), Non-Intentional Injuries (2004), Legislation on Occupational Risks and Safety in Central America (2003) and Pesticide in Central America: Analysis of Legislation and National and International Mechanisms of Enforcement, Focus on Gender” (1999). Susana holds an LLM degree from American University Washington College of Law.