Marks Distinguished Professor in Business Law and Co-Director of ASEAN Law & Integration Center at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, William S. Richardson School of Law. Her teaching and research areas include international law and international dispute settlement and international investment and commercial arbitration law. Professor Desierto’s advisory/legal expert appointments include among others, Asian Development Bank Office of the Chief Economist; European Union External Action Service; United States Agency for International Development (USAID); Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate of the Philippines.