Diego is a managing partner at Martinez & CIA Abogados. He holds a law degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). He holds an LL. M. in ‘Comparative and International Dispute Resolution’ from Queen Mary University of London (England), has completed advanced studies in arbitration at the Swiss Arbitration Academy in collaboration with the Universities of Lucerne and Neuchâtel (Switzerland), and has completed postgraduate courses in contracts and damages at the University of Salamanca (Spain), and in public procurement at the PUCP and ESAN.

He is an arbitrator at the Arbitration Centre of the American Chamber of Commerce in Peru (Amcham), the Cusco Chamber of Commerce and Ankawa International. He is a member of the Peruvian Association of Constitutional Law, the Spanish Arbitration Club and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (ACiarb). He currently lectures in procedural law at the PUCP and the University of Lima.

He has been a partner at Benites, Vargas & Ugaz, and an associate in the litigation and arbitration practice at Payet, Rey, Cauvi, Pérez, and Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano. He also served as in-house counsel for Maple Gas, focusing his practice on providing legal services to the hydrocarbons sector.