Joe Tirado has over 30 years of dispute resolution experience having handled hundreds of cases across a broad range of industry sectors as counsel, arbitrator, mediator, conciliator, adjudicator and expert determiner in more than 65 jurisdictions. Joe is a partner at leading Spanish and Latin American firm, Garrigues, based in London. Joe has been recognized consistently as a ranked individual for international arbitration and ADR in leading legal directories. He has been described as “first class” and “best known for his work on energy-related disputes, but is also recognized for his financial services and public international law expertise”. Joe has conducted and advised on international commercial and investment arbitration under all the major international arbitration rules before the leading international arbitration institutions as well as “pure” ad hoc and UNCITRAL arbitration. He has also conducted and advised on a number of mediations and other ADR processes. Joe is a solicitor-advocate with full rights of audience before all civil courts in England & Wales, an accredited commercial and Investor-State mediator, a Civil Mediation Council Fellow, an ICSID conciliator and a panel member of a number of leading invitation-only arbitration and mediation panels, including the European Union and the United Nations.