Dyalá Jiménez Figueres

Dyalá Jiménez Figueres (born 16 March 1972) is a Costa Rican lawyer specialized in international arbitration and politician. She served as Minister of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica between 2018 and 2020. She is member of the International Council of Arbitration for Sport.

Early life Jiménez was born in 1972 in Hospital México of San José, Costa Rica. She is the elder daughter of politician and ambassador Danilo Jiménez Veiga, who died in 1996 at the age of 75, and his maternal grandparents were president José María Figueres and first lady Henrietta Boggs, so she is also niece of former president José María Figueres.

She studied at the French Lycée until her family moved to Mexico for her father's work with the United Nations.

Minister of Foreign Trade (2018–2020) It was announced in April 2018 that Jiménez would be appointed as the new Minister of Foreign Trade.

In March 2019 she signed a Free Trade Agreement with South Korea. In May 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Costa Rica, Jiménez restricted the entry of foreign freight carriers, measures that were relaxed a few days later after negotiations with the other border countries.

During her tenure, Jiménez led the final negotiations that allowed Costa Rica to join the OECD. She resigned on 7 August 2020 due to disagreements with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Jiménez is member of the International Council of Arbitration for Sport.

She became the first Latin American woman to become vice president of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration on 1 April 2025.

Personal life She married Spanish businessman Roberto Álvarez in France in 2003, with whom she has two children. Jiménez Figueres, Dyalá. “Multi-Tiered Dispute Resolution Clauses in ICC Arbitration.” The ICC International Court of Arbitration Bulletin, 2003. Figueres, Dyalá Jiménez. “La Madurez Del Arbitraje Comercial Internacional: De Laudos Extranjeros Y Laudos Internacionales.” Revista Brasileira de Arbitragem, vol. 2, no. Issue 5, 2005, pp. 129–43 Figueres, Dyalá Jiménez. “Amicable Means to Resolve Disputes: How the ICC ADR Rules Work.” Journal of International Arbitration, vol. 21, no. Issue 1, 2004, pp. 91–101