Marinn Carlson is a partner in the Washington, DC, office of Sidley Austin LLP, where she focuses her practice in international dispute settlement, with an emphasis on trade policy and investment disputes, including investor-state arbitration and WTO disputes. She has represented foreign investors as well as respondent governments in ICSID arbitrations under investment treaties and trade agreements, including NAFTA. She has represented corporate clients in a range of institutional (eg, ICC, Zurich Chamber) and ad hoc (eg, UNCITRAL) international commercial arbitrations. She has also represented clients in US litigation with international ramifications, and as amici curiae in foreign affairs, intellectual property, and commerce clause cases before the United States Supreme Court and various courts of appeal. She counsels clients in sectors ranging from financial services to infrastructure development on the implications of international trade and investment rules for their global operations. Ms Carlson has spoken at conferences and taught classes, workshops and seminars on many topics in international arbitration, including investor-state arbitration caselaw and practice as well as arbitration advocacy skills. She is a member of the executive committee of the Foundation for International Arbitration Agency (FIAA), as well as the current budget chair and past programme committee co-chair of the American Society of International Law, and she serves on the board of visitors of Dartmouth College’s John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding.