​In mid-June 2014, ICSID staff met with counsel and arbitrators, and participated in several conferences in Mexico City. On June 17, the Secretary-General of ICSID, Meg Kinnear, spoke at a conference on the practice of international arbitration in Latin America, Evolución y Práctica del Arbitraje Internacional en Latinoamérica. This was the first conference held by the Asociación Latinoamericana de Arbitraje (ALARB), which was created in 2010 by a group of practitioners dedicated to international arbitration in Latin America. The Secretary-General moderated a panel featuring Gabriela Álvarez Ávila, Hugo Perezcano and Henri Álvarez on the influence NAFTA has had on investor-state arbitration over the past 20 years.

On June 18, ICSID staff offered a one-day workshop on the procedural steps in an ICSID Convention arbitration. The event was held at the Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Santa Fe in Mexico City. Secretary-General Kinnear, Gonzalo Flores (Senior Counsel/Team Leader), Cathy Kettlewell (Legal Counsel) and Marco Tulio Montañés-Rumayor (Legal Counsel) explained the workings of the ICSID system by describing the process involved at each stage of arbitration. The event was co-sponsored by the Tecnológico de Monterrey and the Centro de Arbitraje de México, and was attended by participants from several Mexican and foreign law firms, practicing arbitrators, and government officials.