Elisabeth Eljuri

Elisabeth Eljuri is an energy executive and an independent arbitrator. She has been involved in the energy and natural resources industry for over 30 years.

Ms. Eljuri sits as arbitrator in major natural resources, energy, infrastructure, M&A and contract law disputes with a heavy focus on Latin America. She regularly sits as arbitrator in cases administered by ICSID, the PCA, the ICC, the LCIA and ICDR. She is a member of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC in Paris. She is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb).

Likewise, Ms. Eljuri has been an executive and co-founder of two energy portfolio companies over the past decade. She was Chief Negotiator & CLC at Westlawn Americas Offshore, an upstream oil and gas company focused on the Gulf of America and the Americas offshore basins. Prior that, she was an executive with Sierra Oil & Gas, a portfolio company which was funded by three major US private equity funds (Riverstone, Encap and BlackRock) to capture opportunities in the Mexican energy market. She remained until the successful exit and sale to a large European energy company. Ms. Eljuri was one of two lead negotiators of such sale.

Before venturing into her executive role, she spent over 25 years in legal practice at two of the world’s largest law firms. Until December 2015, Ms. Eljuri was the Head of Latin America of Norton Rose Fulbright where she was a senior partner focusing in the areas of international arbitration, energy and natural resources and projects/infrastructure for nearly 18 years.

Ms. Eljuri has published extensively in the areas of international arbitration, investment protection, political risk management, oil and gas, natural resources and related topics. An active public speaker, Ms. Eljuri has presented in over one hundred industry conferences around the world. She has led and taught many specialized workshops in oil and gas, co-chaired major training courses and she also spent 20 years involved in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.

Ms. Eljuri is a member of the Young President’s Organization (YPO) and is currently completing YPO Presidents’ Gold Program at Harvard Business School.

She is both a common law and a civil law lawyer. She graduated from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (valedictorian) and then attended Harvard Law School. She is admitted to practice law in New York and Venezuela.

Ms. Eljuri is based in Miami, Florida. She is fully bilingual in English and Spanish, and fluent in spoken French.