Biography
Don De Amicis is a Professor at Georgetown University Law Center and faculty co-director of the Center on Transnational Business and the Law. He serves as an Expert-Advisor to the Commercial Law Development Program of the U.S. Commerce Department, and is on the faculty at the International Law Institute, where he teaches foreign government officials on commercial law matters, including procurement, project finance, and public private partnerships. Professor De Amicis is a member of tribunals of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Inter-American Development Bank that hear appeals of cases involving corruption, fraud and collusion and is involved in international business dispute resolution as an independent arbitrator and mediator. Don was the Executive Director of the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade, a commercial law reform institute, a Professor of Practice at the University of Arizona Law School, a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and a Senior Lecturer at Leiden University. From 2011 to 2014, he was General Counsel of the Development Finance Corporation, the U.S. government’s international development finance institution that supports private sector investment through project finance and political risk insurance in over 100 foreign countries. Prior to OPIC, he had been a senior partner at Ropes & Gray LLP, an international law firm. He has long been active in the American Bar Association and its rule of law initiatives; he served as chair of the Section of International Law and is currently serving on the ABA’s Center for Human Rights. Don is a graduate of Harvard College (B.A.) and received his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.