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Biography

Ximena Bustamante is founding partner of PACTUM Dispute Resolution Consulting and a full time mediator with experience in over 1.000 cases, including highly complex disputes and controversies with the public sector, both in Ecuador and abroad. She is a Professor at San Francisco de Quito University and has taught several courses and seminars on mediation both in Ecuador and internationally.

Ximena was ranked as one of the top three mediators of the country by Leaders League in 2021 and 2022. She is a senior fellow for the Weinstein International Foundation, Membership Officer of the IBA Mediation Committee, part of the Expert Group on Mediation at the UNCITRAL and neutral for the United Nations Global Mediation Panel. Ximena has served as National Director of Mediation at the Attorney General Office, Deputy Director at the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the Quito´s Chamber of Commerce, and Director of the Project for the Development of Mediation in Ecuador for MBB and the JAMS Foundation. In the U.S. she worked as an assistant mediator at the Weinstein Group and a mediator in the courts of Los Angeles. She completed and Internship at the ICC International Centre for ADR. Ximena graduated as a lawyer, first of her class, at San Francisco de Quito University and holds an LL.M. for Dispute Resolution from Pepperdine University.