Education/Background:
- Doctor in Jurisprudence – Graduated from Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario in 1976.
- Master’s degree in Private Law, Public Law, and Procedural Law from Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, and Master’s degree in Taxation Law from Universidad de Los Andes.
- Postgraduate courses in the field of negotiation and conciliation techniques, University College of London, and Harvard University.
Preferred Practice Areas:
- Civil, Commercial, and Administrative Litigation and Arbitration.
- Counselling on Colombian commercial and taxation matters to major domestic and foreign companies.
Special Skills and Interests:
- Member of the Colombian Academy of Jurisprudence and author of the thesis “El Arbitraje en Equidad” published in 2002.
- Member of the Colombian Institute of Procedural Law and also an arbitrator on the “A” Roster of arbitrators maintained by the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá.
- Lecturer in international and domestic forums on arbitration.
- Professor of Civil Procedure Law at Universidad Sergio Arboleda in Bogotá.
- Professor and lecturer of the PhD Program on Arbitration and Conciliation, fostered by the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá.
- Recently appointed as a lecturer in the Module on US Law and Common Law, Law Master Program, Universidad Sergio Arboleda.
Languages:
- Spanish and English.
