The Arbitration Center of Mexico (CAM) functions through a General Counsel and a Secretary General. The General Council is mainly involved in the designation and removal of arbitrators, and in the scrutiny of arbitral awards. On the other hand, the Secretary General is chiefly in charge of the day administration of arbitral proceedings.

› GENERAL COUNCIL

Ulises Schmill Ordóñez

He is a graduate of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1954-1958). He served as President of the Nations Supreme Court, member of the Commission for Government and Administration and Magistrate of the Fiscal Federal Tribunal.

He has taught courses on Law Theory, Civil Law, Constitutional Rights, and Fiscal Law among many others, in universities such as the UNAM, Instituto Mexicano de Estudios Fiscales and the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.

He was embassador in Austria, Hungary and in the Federal Republic of Germany. He has published many articles about subjects as soberanity and international law, logic and law, among others. He also has published the following books: “El Sistema de la Constitución Mexicana”, “La Conducta del Jabalí. Dos ensayos sobre el Poder: Kafka y Sheakspeare”, “Pureza Metódica y Racionalidad en la Teoría del Derecho”, “Lógica y Derecho”, “Reconstrucción Pragmática de la Teoría del Derecho”, “Un poema de Hans Kelsen”, “La Derogación y la Anulación como Modalidades del Ámbito Temporal de Validez de las Normas Jurídicas”, and “Algunos Conceptos Sistemáticos sobre la Constitución de 1917”.

Carlos de Silva Nava

He is a graduate of the Escuela de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara. Since 1965 he has been part of the judicial system. First as Secretary of the Supreme Court, judge of the Second district Court in Mexico City, Magistrate of the Second Colegiate Tribunal of the first circuit in Mexico City, and numerary minister member of the Supreme Court. He has taught Civil Law, Constitutional Rights, Administrative Law, Fiscal Law, Constitutional Law and Procedural Law, among many others.

Guillermo Aguilar Alvarez

He is a partner of Weil, Gotshal and Manges at New York , USA , where he participates in domestic and international arbitration procedures as coarbitrator, chairman of arbitral tribunals, party counsel and expert witness. He advises foreign companies in connection with the enforcement of arbitral awards in Mexico ; he has participated as panelist in WTO disputes and as arbitrator in procedures under the ICSID Rules. Mr. Aguilar Alvarez professional practice also includes advice on matters of antitrust, investment and international trade. He was a partner of SAI Consultores in Mexico City for several years. He served as Chief Legal Counsel for the government of Mexico during the negotiations of NAFTA. As such, he led the legal review of the final text and its legal implementation, and participated in the negotiation of the investment, intellectual property and dispute settlement chapters; he was Counsel and General Counsel of the ICC International Court of Arbit ration in Paris.

Guillermo Aguilar Alvarez is a graduate of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). His academic background includes research with the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas (UNAM) and with the Centre National de la Reserche Scientifique of France . He has taught at law schools in Mexico , France , the Netherlands and the United States .

Cecilia Azar Manzur

She is a graduate of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Her professional practice has focused on International Commerce and Commercial Arbitration. She worked at SAI Consultores from 1995 to 2001. She was also Secretary General of the Arbitration Center of Mexico (CAM) from 1998 to 2000. At present, she leads the American Bar Association Project of Mediation in Mexico. She has participated in different seminars and forums related to commercial arbitration in Mexico, the United States and Center America. She has also published articles in different academic forums; she is professor of “International Commercial Arbitration” and “Alternative Dispute Resolution Methods” at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. At present, she is earning a doctor degree with the Masters Program of the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas of the UNAM.

Gloria Chapa Resendez

Gloria is a graduate from the Faculty of Jurisprudence of the Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila. Master degree in Business Administration and Education at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM). At present, she is earning a doctor degree in Law at the Universidad of Salamanca . She has 22 years of academic experience and is professor at the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Humanity and Social Sciences of the ITESM. She has participated in different courses and conferences offered by the ITESM. She was the Director of the Faculty of Law and Academic Senator at the same Institute for four years. At present, she has incorporated to Campus Santa Fe of the ITESM to participate in the project CAM-TEC as a representative of the said Institute and she is also General Counsil of CAM .

› Deputy Counsil

Sofía Gómez Ruano

She is a graduate of the Universidad Panamericana, where she taught “Arbitration” from 2003-2004. She was Secretary General of Centro de Arbitraje de México (CAM) from 2000 to 2004. She is a frequent lecturer in topics related to ADR and arbitration in Mexico and has published different articles related to the same topic. She has also participated in the publication of books as “Manuel de Arbitraje Comercial” and “Arbitraje Comercial Internacional: Cómo solucionar controversias comerciales internacionales”. She is a member of the Nafta 2022 Committee.
At the present she is Of Counsel of González Calvillo, where she participates in domestic and international arbitration procedures.
sofiagomezruano@prodigy.net.mx

Luis Manuel Pérez de Acha

He is a lawyer from Escuela Libre de Derecho (The public officer before his own acts for the effects of the Habeas Corpus); he has a doctorate degree given by the Division of Postgraduate Studies of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México with a specialization in Constitutional and Administrative Law. He has been a teacher of postgraduate studies at Escuela Libre de Derecho, Universidad Iberoamericana and Universidad Anáhuac, and a professor at Universidad Panamericana, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. He is a speaker in seminars in the subject of fiscal law which are organized by various public and private institutions. Author of the books “Permanent Establishments” and “Business Benefits”,as well as co-author of the book “Tributary Studies”. He has also published articles on the subject of constitutional, administrative and fiscal law in the magazines of Escuela Libre de Derecho, the Mexican Bar, the Bar Association, the Federal Court of Fiscal and Administrative Justice, the Mexican Academy of Fiscal Law, the Interamerican Lawyer Federation, as well as in the Magazine Lex, the Southwestern Journal of Law, and in Tax Notes International. Contact: lmpda@pdea-abogados.com

Gustavo de Silva Gutiérrez

Gustavo de Silva Gutiérrez is a lawyer from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM); specialist in Constitutional Law and in Political Science from the Centro de Estudios Constitucionales de Madrid. Specialist in Human Rights Law from the Universidad Conplutense de Madrid, he studied European Law at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (class Jean Monet). He has also studied Amparo, Tributary Law and Commercial Arbitration (ITAM) International Commerce (KANSE I) , and International Humanitarian Law (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), among others. He has been professor in different Universities and in his working experience he was elaborating sentence projects and federal process in courts of the District in Administrative and Penalty matters in the Judicial Power of the Federation and he performed as an actuary; he has been an attorney for the buffet “González Luna y Pérez de Acha, S.C.,adviser of the Government and Public Security Commission of the House of Representatives (LVII Legistature), he participates in the Partiamentary Group of Partido Acción Nacional in the Senate of the Republic, he is member an Director of Legistative Studies in “Servicios de Cabildeo, S.C., and founder of the firm “De Silva y Zamora, S.C.

SECRETARY GENERAL

Carolina Castellanos López

is a lawyer from the faculty of law of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). She has participated in several courses of topics related to Alternative Dispute Resolution Methods and Arbitration. She participated as coauthor of the chapter related to arbitration in Mexico of the Handbook titled Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution Methods: How to resolve international commercial disputes”, a publication between The Arbitration Center of Mexico (CAM) and the International Trade Center (UNCTAD/WTO). Her professional practice has been focused on commercial arbitration, being a member of the General Secretariat of CAM during the last years, where she acquired the theoretical and practical experience in this subject. She is Professor of commercial arbitration at the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City and she coordinates the Course of specialization in Commercial Arbitration. She is Secretary General of the Arbitration Center of Mexico.

ASSISTANT OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL

Irais de la Paz Avila Garduño

She is a lawyer from the faculty of law of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM). She worked in Corporación Novavisión (SKY) developing her abilities in the area of international trade and administrative law. In the present time she works as assistant of the Secretary General of the Arbitration Center of Mexico (CAM).