Julissa Reynoso

Julissa Reynoso is the former United States Ambassador to Uruguay. Ms. Reynoso also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central American, Caribbean and Cuban Affairs in the US Department of State. Prior to joining the US Department of State, Ms. Reynoso practiced at a major international law firm, where she specialized in antitrust law, international commercial arbitration and international investment arbitration. Ms. Reynoso has extensive policy and legal experience throughout Latin America, engaging both as a lawyer in private practice and as a senior US diplomat on behalf of the US government. Her legal experience includes analyzing and advising on complex cross-border transactions and conducting complex arbitrations under the major international rules, including ICC and UNCITRAL, and bilateral investment treaty disputes under the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA).

Representative Matters

• Société Générale vs. The Dominican Republic
• TCW Group, Inc. and Dominican Energy Holdings, L.P. vs. The Dominican Republic
• Empresa Distribuidora de Electricidad del Este, S.A. vs. Corporación Dominicana de Empresas Eléctricas Estatales (CDEEE)

Publications

• "US-Cuba Reset?," Client Alert, December 23, 2014
• "Putting Out Fires Before They Start: Community Organizing and Collaborative Governance in the Bronx, U.S.A.” 24 Journal of Law and Inequality 213, Summer 2006
• "The Impact of Identity Politics and Public Sector Reform on Organizing and the Practice of Democracy,” 37 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 149, 2005
• "Antitrust Developments in the Media and Entertainment Industries,” (with Peter E. Kazanoff and Kenneth R. Logan), The Antitrust Review of the Americas, Global Competition Review, 2005
• Book Review, "Towards a Regulatory Model for the New Workplace,” (reviewing Katherine V. W. Stone, "From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace” (2004)), Labor History, 2005
• "Perspectives on Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Other Grounds: Latinas at the Margins,” 7 Harvard Latino Law Review 63, 2004
• Note, "Race, Censuses and Attempts at Racial Democracy,” 39 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 533, 2001

Professional Background

• Lecturer, School for International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, present
• Adjunct Professor, Columbia Law School, present
• United States Ambassador, 2012-2014
• Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, United States Department of State, 2009-2012
• Member, U.S. Department of State Representative, White House Taskforce on Puerto Rico, 2009-2012
• Fellow, Institute for Policy Integrity, New York University School of Law, 2008-2009
• Associate Director, Office of Accountability, Office of the Chancellor, New York City Department of Education, 2006
• Fellow, Project on Public Innovations, Columbia University School of Law, 2005
• Law Clerk to the Honorable Laura Taylor Swain, Southern District of New York, 2001-2003

Education

• JD, Columbia University School of Law
• MPhil, University of Cambridge
• BA, Harvard University

Affiliations

• Member of The Council on Foreign Relations

Honors & Awards

• US Department of State, various awards and citations
• Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum
• Order of the Quetzal, Guatemala’s highest honor
• Order of Del Valle, Honduras’s highest honor
• Soros Fellowship for New Americans
• De Jersey Harvard Scholar