Pilar Escaler has been Director of the Andorra Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services (CCIS) since 1994.

She holds a Law degree from the University of Barcelona and, during her long career in charge of the CCIS, she has been involved in major projects which have been crucial for the development of Andorra’s economic and social well-being. They include achieving the coordination of the Principality’s main commercial centre, which is the pedestrianised area of Avinguda de Meritxell and Avinguda de Carlemany.

She has also actively promoted the CCIS’s business training, organising numerous seminars on current themes and other training actions aimed at increasing professionalism in the Andorran business community.

Together with the Andorra Bar Association, she has been one of the greatest champions of alternative means of dispute resolution, promoting business mediation and pushing for the creation of the TAPA.

She is presently a member of the Assembly and of the Arbitral Board.

Languages: Catalan, Spanish, French and English.