Rodrigo Jijón is a partner at Pérez Bustamante & Ponce Abogados, one of the leading law firms in Ecuador. He is actively involved in the fields of litigation, arbitration, and alternative dispute resolution.

Mr Jijón is an active arbitrator of the main arbitration centres in Ecuador including those of the Quito Chamber of Commerce, the Ecuadorean-American Chamber of Commerce, and the International Arbitration Centre sponsored by the Pichincha Chamber of Industry and the London Court of Arbitration.

Mr Jijón presided over the arbitration tribunal in an ICSID arbitration case between IBM and Ecuador and has participated as litigating attorney in a large number of national and international arbitration proceedings. Likewise, Mr Jijón has acted as legal counsel to international corporations in several international arbitration proceedings.

He has served as professor of procedural law in several graduate and postgraduate universities in Ecuador. He has contributed numerous articles on procedural law and arbitration to different magazines in Ecuador and abroad, and is constantly participating as speaker in seminars and conferences on procedural law and arbitration.

Mr Jijón is recognised in several international publications as a leading lawyer in litigation and arbitration practice in Ecuador, like Chambers Latin America.

Mr Jijón is past President and the current Vice-president of the Ecuadorean Arbitration Institute and a full member of the Ecuadorean Procedural Law Institute. He has also been a member of the Court of Honour of the Quito Bar Association.