Professor

Don

S.

De Amicis

Don De Amicis is a Professor at Georgetown University Law Center and faculty director of the Center on Transnational Business and the Law. He also serves as faculty director of the Executive Securities and Financial Regulation LL.M. program.  Professor De Amicis is a member of the World Bank Group Sanctions Board, and recently served on the sanctions boards of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Inter-American Development Bank.  Don also serves as an arbitrator in domestic and international commercial arbitrations.   From 2011 to 2014, he was General Counsel of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (then known as the Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the U.S. government’s international development finance institution that supports private sector investment through project finance and political risk insurance in over 100 foreign countries.   Prior to that, he had been a partner at Ropes & Gray LLP, an international law firm, for over 20 years, with a practice that focused on three principal areas: corporate, finance, and restructuring.  Don has long been active in the American Bar Association and its rule of law initiatives; he served on the ABA’s Board of Governors and was chair of the ABA’s International Law Section.  Don is a graduate of Harvard College (B.A.) and received his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.