Blanca del Carmen Martínez Mendoza

Blanca del Carmen Martínez Mendoza, MCIArb, is a partner at Mendoza Vera Abogados, S.C., where her practice focuses on international arbitration, foreign investment, international trade, and energy and environmental regulation. She has more than 15 years of experience in private practice and senior roles in the Mexican federal government, including representing Mexico in investor-State arbitrations and contributing to the negotiation and implementation of international trade and investment instruments, including the USMCA. At Mexico’s Agency for Safety, Energy and Environment, she led international cooperation on hydrocarbons regulation, operational safety, environmental protection, and methane-emissions mitigation. Her work combines treaty protection, dispute prevention, regulatory strategy, and the management of political risk affecting long-term investments, particularly in Mexico and Latin America. She teaches at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She holds a Master in International Dispute Settlement from the Geneva Graduate Institute and the University of Geneva.