
Alayna Tria
Alayna Tria is an associate director with BRG’s Energy & Climate practice.
She has over fourteen years of experience in the consulting, energy, and legal industries, including over ten years providing business valuation and damages quantification services across energy and other sectors. She is a recognized thought leader on damages topics whose work has been published in Investment Treaty Arbitration Review and Global Arbitration Review. She is a frequent speaker on damages, international arbitration, and energy transition.
Ms. Tria has managed the preparation of expert analysis and reporting for over thirty international arbitration cases brought before ICSID, ICC, ICDR, UNCITRAL, LCIA, ACICA, and PCA tribunals involving the calculation of damages, as well as industry opinions on energy prices, markets, and commercial standards. In particular, she has been involved in numerous investor-state and commercial arbitrations involving oil and natural gas, liquefied natural gas (LNG), power, renewables, petrochemicals, mining, and climate change. Ms. Tria has worked for both claimants and respondents, including project developers, equity investors, international oil companies, national oil and gas companies, gas/LNG traders and aggregators, governments, and other industry clients.
Ms. Tria’s engagements have required expert assessment of damages and energy asset valuation for investment and commercial arbitration, including discounted cash-flow (DCF) analysis; global gas and LNG market forecasts and pricing; oil and gas pipeline economics; commercial, economic, and financial analysis of energy purchase and sale agreements; renewable energy investments; and causation analysis for breach of contract and issues of force majeure. Ms. Tria’s professional experience spans North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
Employment History
Navigant Consulting
Managing consultant
2014 – 2018
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Research associate
2013
Education
Johns Hopkins University
MA, International Economics & International Relations, 2014
Harvard University
BA, Government, 2010
Professional Affiliations
Institute for Transnational Arbitration, Advisory Board
Member