Marina Ruete is an international and comparative law advisor who has been working with IISD’s Economic Law and Policy group since 2013. Her work cuts across a number of program areas, including sustainable procurement and infrastructure finance, investment in mining and agriculture. Marina is engaged with legal and policy analysis and capacity-building training, and regularly presents her research and expertise at conferences. She also helps to edit the Spanish edition of the quarterly journal International Treaty News.
Marina previously served as legal fellow for the Inter-American Development Bank Group, as an associate in capital markets and finance departments in a Tier 1 Argentinean law firm and as an adjunct professor of modern contracts law at Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Marina has worked as a consultant for a wide variety of international institutions on the issues of mining, public procurement and concessions including United Nations Environemnt Programme, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank and the Alliance for Responsible Mining.
Marina holds a Master of Law (LL.M) in International and Comparative Law from the National University of Singapore and studied International Relations and Negotiations at Universidad de Barcelona, Universidad de San Andrés and FLACSO.
She is based in Panamá and speaks Spanish, English and French.
All Publications
- Toward Strategic Public Procurement in Latin America and the Caribbean
Report - June 28, 2020
This paper presents four best practice case studies and key ingredients of procurement reform to enable the shift toward strategic public procurement for sustainable development. - Investment Treaty News (ITN), Volume 11, Issue 2, June 2020
Newsletter - June 25, 2020
Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD’s flagship journal on international investment law and policy. - IGF Guidance for Governments: Improving legal frameworks for environmental and social impact assessment and management
Report - June 23, 2020
This IGF guidance document offers governments a summary of international best practices in legal frameworks for environmental and social impact assessment and related management plans for large-scale mines. - Investment Treaty News (ITN), Volume 11, Issue 1, March 2020
Newsletter - March 16, 2020
Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD’s flagship journal on international investment law and policy. - Investment Treaty News (ITN), Volume 10, Issue 5, December 2019
Newsletter - December 16, 2019
Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD’s flagship journal on international investment law and policy. - Investment Treaty News (ITN), Volume 10, Issue 4, October 2019
Newsletter - October 3, 2019
Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD’s flagship journal on international investment law and policy. This special edition of ITN is devoted to international investment governance. - Investment Treaty News (ITN), Volume 10, Issue 3, September 2019
Newsletter - September 19, 2019
Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD’s flagship journal on international investment law and policy. - Investment Treaty News (ITN), Volume 10, Issue 2, June 2019
Newsletter - June 27, 2019
Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD’s flagship journal on international investment law and policy. - IGF Mining Policy Framework Assessment: Ecuador
Report - May 23, 2019
This report presents a Mining Policy Framework (MPF) Assessment for Ecuador, with a view to helping the government target its efforts in implementing its MPF. - Investment Treaty News (ITN), Volume 10, Issue 1, April 2019
Newsletter - April 23, 2019
Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD’s flagship journal on international investment law and policy. - Investment Treaty News (ITN), Volume 9, Issue 4, December 2018
Newsletter - December 21, 2018
Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD’s flagship journal on international investment law and policy. - Investment Treaty News (ITN), Volume 9, Issue 3, October 2018
Newsletter - October 18, 2018
Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD’s flagship journal on international investment law and policy. - Investment Treaty News (ITN), Volume 9, Issue 2, July 2018
Newsletter - July 30, 2018
Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD’s flagship journal on international investment law and policy. - Investment Treaty News Quarterly (ITN), Volume 8, Issue 4, December 2017
Newsletter - December 21, 2017
Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD’s flagship quarterly journal on international investment law and policy. - Investment Treaty News Quarterly (ITN), Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2017
Newsletter - September 26, 2017
Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD’s flagship quarterly journal on international investment law and policy. - Investment Treaty News Quarterly (ITN), Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2017
Newsletter - June 15, 2017
Investment Treaty News is IISD’s flagship quarterly journal on international investment law and policy. - Investment Treaty News Quarterly (ITN), Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2017
Newsletter - March 14, 2017
Investment Treaty News is IISD’s flagship quarterly journal on international investment law and policy. - The Role of Public Procurement in Deploying Sustainable Infrastructure
Discussion Paper - December 12, 2016
This report discusses how to maximise value-for-money when procuring sustainable infrastructure. - Handbook for INGP Public Procurers / Manual para Agentes de Compras Públicas de las RICG
Paper - October 20, 2015
This handbook will guide government procurers on the design of procurement policies and preferential purchasing programs that will crowd-in SMEs, minority suppliers and women-owned enterprises.

