Prior to joining Curtis, Ms. Ibañez worked as a legal advisor at the Argentine Treasury Attorney General’s Office (Procuración del Tesoro de la Nación), where she represented Argentina in investment arbitration proceedings under the auspices of the ICSID, the UNCITRAL and the ICC and was an assistant professor of public international law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She was also a legal assistant to Professor Dire Tladi at the United Nations International Law Commission in Geneva, where she conducted research on peremptory norms of general international law (jus cogens). During her LL.M. studies at New York University School of Law, she worked as a research assistant to Professor Benedict Kingsbury.
Ms. Ibañez currently serves as co-chair of the Dispute Resolution Interest Group of the American Society of International Law.
While in law school, Ms. Ibañez was a member of the first Universidad de Buenos Aires’ team to win the international rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.