Ricardo Ramírez Hernández

Ricardo Ramírez Hernández is the Founding Partner of RRH Consultores. He has over 25 years of experience and has participated in over 80 disputes brought under different international agreements as litigator or adjudicator.

Ricardo was the first Mexican to be appointed to the highest court on international trade, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO). He served for almost nine years and was elected by his peers as Chair for two consecutive terms.

He was appointed by the Chairman of the Administrative Council of the World Bank to the Panel of Arbitrators of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). He has been arbitrator in cases initiated under different trade agreements and on various investment arbitration tribunals, being one of the most active Latin arbitrators in this field. He was also a member of the first arbitral tribunal involving labor provisions in a free trade agreement.

As a panelist, he has participated in different disputes under Chapter XIX of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). He was appointed as an independent trade expert of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC) and is part of the Panels of Arbitrators of the Beijing Arbitration Commission and the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration. He is member of the panelists’ roster on several trade agreements, including the USMCA and the European Union as well as trade agreements between Mercosur and Colombia; Ecuador and Venezuela; Mercosur and Bolivia; and Costa Rica and Chile.

In the private sector, he was head of the International Trade Practice for Latin America at Chadbourne & Parke, S.C. His practice focused on a full range of trade matters, including unfair trade practices and safeguards. In the public sector, he was Deputy General Counsel for Trade Negotiations of the Ministry of Economy in Mexico. For more than 11 years, Ricardo provided advice on international trade matters related to all trade agreements signed by Mexico.

He is Vice-Chairman of the Global Commission of Trade of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and Chair of the International Trade and Investment Policies Committee of the ICC Mexico. He is also President of the International Trade Professors Association of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He holds a Law Degree from the Autonomous Metropolitan University of Mexico and an L.L.M. on International Legal Studies from the American University, Washington College of Law.