Loretta specializes in international commercial arbitration, investment arbitration and public international law. She sits as arbitrator in proceedings under a variety of arbitration rules, including ICSID, ICC, UNCITRAL, SCC, SIAC, LCIA and DIAC.

Loretta also appears as counsel and advocate in State-to-State disputes before the International Court of Justice and in ad hoc arbitrations. She is a past member and Vice-President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. She currently sits on the Governing Board of ICCA and was a vice-President of ICCA until April 2024. Loretta was appointed to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators by the Chairman of the World Bank until 2024. She is a member of Governing Board of the Centre for International Law of the National University of Singapore and of the Council of the ICC Institute of World Business Law. Loretta is a Vice Chair of the International Arbitration Court of the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (“KCAB International”), and a member of the Arbitration Committee of the British Virgin Islands International Arbitration Center (“BVI IAC”).

Loretta is one of the co-authors of the second edition of The ICSID Convention – A Commentary published by Cambridge University Press in 2009 and one of the editors/authors of the 3d edition published in 2022. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, and an editor of the International Litigation in Practice Series, both published by Brill.

Apart from her native Italian, Loretta is fluent in English, French and Spanish.