​Celeste E. Salinas Quero is Legal Counsel on one of the Case Management Teams. 

Ms. Salinas Quero worked as Legal Counsel at ICSID from September 2017 to May 2021 and rejoined in June 2022 after her tenure at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Chile. Ms. Salinas Quero has acted as secretary to tribunals and ad hoc committees in arbitrations and annulment proceedings. She also assists the ICSID Secretary-General in the appointment of arbitrators under the ICSID Arbitration Rules and under the Arbitration Rules of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).

Prior to joining ICSID, she worked as legal counsel at the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (2012-2017) and was visiting lecturer at the Law Department of Stockholm University (2012-2013).

Ms. Salinas Quero is a lawyer graduated from Universidad de Chile and holds a master’s degree in international arbitration from Stockholm University (LL.M.) and a master’s degree in global health law from Georgetown University (2024). She is admitted to practice law in Chile.

She speaks Spanish, English, German, and Swedish.