Andrés Rigo Sureda

Andrés Rigo Sureda (born April 5, 1943 in Felanitx ) is a Spanish lawyer . He was Deputy Head of the Legal Department of the World Bank from 1992 to 2000 and has been a judge at the Administrative Court of the International Monetary Fund since 2010 . He is also active in the field of international arbitration .

Life

Andrés Rigo Sureda was born in 1943 in the municipality of Felanitx on the Spanish island of Mallorca and obtained a law degree from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1966 , a diploma in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University two years later and a doctorate from the University of in 1971 Cambridge . He then worked as a professor of international law at the Autonomous University of Madrid and as a legal advisor to the government of Venezuela .

From 1973 to 2000 he then worked in various positions for the World Bank , including from 1992 to 2000 as deputy head of the legal department. He then worked for the Washington, DC- based law firm Fulbright & Jaworski LLP from 2001 to 2005 , and has since acted as an independent mediator and arbitrator in the field of international arbitration . In 2004 he also taught at the Hague Academy for International Law . Since 2010 he has been a judge at the Administrative Court of the International Monetary Fund .

The Evolution of the Right of Self-Determination. A Study of United Nations Practice. Leiden 1973
The World Bank, International Financial Institutions and the Development of International Law. Washington DC 1999 (as Associate Editor)
Investment Treaty Arbitration: Judging under Uncertainty. Cambridge and New York 2012

Biographical Note. Andrés Rigo Sureda, born in Felanitx, Mallorca, Spain, on April 5, 1943. In: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law. Bans 308. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Den Haag 2005, ISBN 9-00-414547-8 , p. 17