Joseph Tirado
Joseph Tirado is an international arbitrator, mediator and ADR consultant at TiradoADR Limited. He is an English-qualified lawyer based in London and also works out of the JAMS New York and Miami resolution centres.
Joe has over 35 years’ dispute resolution experience. He has handled hundreds of cases across a broad range of industry sectors as counsel, arbitrator, adjudicator, expert determiner, mediator and conciliator in over 70 jurisdictions worldwide, with a combined total in dispute of over US$10 billion.
He has represented sovereign governments, multinational corporations and high-net-worth individuals in complex, high-value disputes across sectors including banking and finance, commodities, construction and engineering, energy, ICT, mining, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, professional services, sport, transport and travel.
Joe has conducted and advised on over 100 international commercial and investment arbitrations under the major institutional rules, as well as ad hoc and UNCITRAL arbitration. He has been appointed arbitrator in 59 international commercial and investment arbitrations, including as sole arbitrator, emergency arbitrator and presiding arbitrator.
Joe is a solicitor-advocate with full rights of audience before all civil courts in England and Wales, a CEDR-accredited commercial and Investor-State mediator, and a Civil Mediation Council Fellow. He is a former ICSID conciliator appointed by the President of the World Bank Group and sits on leading invitation-only arbitration and mediation panels, including the European Union and the United Nations.