Ignacio de Castro

Director, WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center

Ignacio de Castro is director of the IP Disputes and External Relations Division at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. He is a Spanish lawyer and an English solicitor. He holds an LLM from King’s College London. Before joining WIPO in 2002, he was a legal staff member at the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva. Prior to that, he practised with the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London in the areas of international arbitration and litigation. Ignacio is a national of Spain.