Santiago Dellepiane
Santiago Dellepiane is a managing director with Berkeley Research Group and co-chair of its international arbitration practice. He has worked extensively as an economist and valuation analyst and as a consultant for utilities and regulated and nonregulated businesses. His work involves economic analysis, valuation, business advisory, regulatory analysis, and damages assessment.
Mr. Dellepiane has provided written and oral testimony or expert advice in more than sixty-five matters involving valuation, regulatory, damages, and other issues before ICSID, ICC, UNCITRAL, and ICDR tribunals; before Canadian courts (Superior Court of Justice of Ontario and Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta); and before US federal courts.
Mr. Dellepiane’s research on damages in contractual and treaty breaches was published in Oxford University Press’ Damages in International Arbitration under Complex Long-term Contracts (2014). He also has written articles on damages issues published in the Journal of International Arbitration (JOIA) and contributed to books published by National Autonomous University of Mexico and by ICCA.
Mr. Dellepiane speaks regularly at conferences on damages issues. He has been recognized over several years among the world’s top arbitration expert witnesses and as a Global Elite Thought Leader by Who’s Who Legal.
Employment History
Compass Lexecon
Executive vice president, 2017 – 2018
Senior vice president, 2013 – 2017
Vice president, 2011 – 2013
LECG
Principal, international arbitration practice, 2010 – 2011
Senior managing consultant, 2009 – 2010
Managing consultant, 2008 – 2009
Senior consultant, 2005 – 2007
Associate/senior associate, 2001 – 2002
Research analyst, 1998 – 2000
Nextel Corporation (through LECG)
Consultant, 2002 – 2004
Education
The New School University, New York
MA, Media Studies/Sociology, 2012
CEMA University, Buenos Aires, Argentina
BA, Economics, 1999
Professional Affiliations
International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA)
Member, 2013 – present
Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)
Member, Advisory Board, 2011 – present
CARA Civil and Social Justice Fund
Member, Advisory Board, 2017 – 2018
Manhattan New Music Project (MNMP)
Member, Board of Directors, 2010 – 2012
Lower Manhattan Project, task force with US Department of Energy
Member, 2009
Community/Civic Involvement
Civil rights: advisory in a US court case regarding denial of equal protection and denial of medical treatment, 2015, pro bono
Human rights: advisory in assessment of damages in a matter under the Alien Tort Statute, US Federal Court, 2013-2016, pro bono