Katie Gonzalez is a senior associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York. Her practice focuses on international litigation and arbitration, with an emphasis on Latin America. Katie has significant experience representing international and domestic clients (both sovereign and private entities) in commercial and investor-state arbitration matters, as well as in state and federal courts.

Katie frequently writes on arbitration-related issues and speaks on panels regarding her practice, particularly on topics relating to sovereign representation, oil and gas disputes, and corruption issues. In 2022, Katie served as a faculty member for the New York State Bar Association / Cardozo Law Commercial Arbitration Training Program, and was a part of the New York Arbitration Week Organizing Committee in 2020 and 2021. Katie is an Alternate Director of the New York International Arbitration Center (“NYIAC”) Board of Directors, where she serves as the Co-Chair of the Foreign Lawyers Committee. Katie also serves on the Publications Committee for the AAA-ICDR, and was recently appointed to the ICDR’s Young & International Board. Katie is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and is also a member of ArbitralWomen and Secretary to the New York City Bar Association’s International Commercial Disputes Committee, among other arbitration- and disputes-focused organizations. Who’s Who Legal has recognized Katie as a “Future Leader in International Arbitration.”

Prior to joining Cleary, Katie worked at an NGO in the Middle East. Katie graduated from Harvard Law School in 2017, where she was a Salzburg Lloyd N. Cutler fellow in international law. Katie graduated phi beta kappa and magna cum laude from Dartmouth College.