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Ana María Daza-Clark is a Lecturer in International Law at the University of Edinburgh, Law School, and an Affiliate member of the International Water Law Academy. Her research and teaching focuses on International Economic Law, covering International Investment Law and Arbitration, WTO Law, International Water Law, and Management of Natural Resources. She has done extensive work on the relationship between Investment Law and Water Resources Management and Regulation. She is Programme Director of the International Economic Law LL.M at the University of Edinburgh, and provides expert advice to governments, foreign investors and international organisations.

Her relevant publications include:

Daza-Clark, AM, Enforcing transboundary water obligations through investment treaty arbitration: China, Laos and the Mekong River (2020) in Review of European Comparative & International Environmental Law, vol. 29.

Daza-Clark, AM and Behn D., Between war and peace: Intermittent armed conflict and investment arbitration (2019) in K  Fach Gómez, et al (Eds.) International Investment Law and the Law of Armed Conflict Publisher (European Yearbook of International, Economic Law, Springer).

Daza Vargas, AM, Water resources and International Investment Law (2017) in A. Rieu-Clarke, et al, Routledge Handbook of Water Law and Policy, Routledge Handbooks.

Daza-Clark, AM,International Investment Law and Water Resources Management: An Appraisal of Indirect Expropriation (2016) (Nijhoff International Investment Law Series, Brill).

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Ana María is an independent consultant for AACNI International Law Firm, specialised in International Investment and Commercial Arbitration, and a member of the Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law. She is also editor of the online newsletter Arbitration Watch. Ana María is member of the Academic Forum supporting UNCITRAL Group III for the Reform of Investor State Dispute Settlement. Prior to joining the University of Edinburgh Law School, Ana María taught a number of subjects within the Water Law LLM Programme Centre for Water Law, University of Dundee. She was a research fellow at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. For several years Ana María was a Legal Officer and Legal Director at the Public Utility Regulatory System (SIRESE) in Bolivia, where she advised on appeals brought by investors as well as consumers in the sectors of Telecommunications, Electricity, Hydrocarbons, Water Services and Transport.

Ana María holds a Ph.D in law from the University of Dundee, an LL.M. from the Magister Iuris Communis Programme from Maastricht University, an LL.M. in Law and Economics from Utrecht University, and a law degree with a diploma in Economic Regulation of Public Utilities from Universidad Católica Boliviana and Pro-Universidad, respectively.