Academic credentials
• Lecturer-professor since 2000 in Colombian major universities on subjects as privacy and data protection, content regulation, intellectual property
(including copyright, patent, and trademark), communications and media policy, and the regulation of Internet networks and technologies in different postgraduate programs.
• Different articles published in international law reviews on E-consumers protection (Monterrey MX, 2002), Domain Names Disputes (Bogotá, 2003), Software contracts
(Madrid, ES, 2006) and also in magazines as Computerworld.
• International Business Law postgraduate diploma (Los Andes, Bogotá)
• International Law diploma with honors from Strasbourg University, France.
• International Development Law diploma from the International Development Law Organization in Rome, Italy
• Law & New Technologies course in Deusto University (Bilbao, Spain)
• Legal English diploma from Javeriana University (Colombia)
• Second place on the European Human Rights Moot Court (1999)
• Law studies at Los Andes University (Bogotá) one of the best ranked universities in Latin America. Minor in Business.
Experience working with or in the various branches, agencies, and institutions of the national government.
• Colombian Trade and Industry Ministry (2004-2005) I was part of the private sector negotiation team of the Free Trade Agreement with the United States. Alvaro actively participated
in the negotiation of the Intellectual Property and e-commerce chapters of the treaty. He was called to be one of the official negotiators of the IP chapter.
• Colombian Internal Revenue Service (2003, 2005). He worked with them in the regulation of a tax exemption for software revenues and the regulation of the electronic invoices.
• Colombian Foreign Affairs Ministry (1997, 1998) Assistant of the Colombian defense team before the Interamerican Human Rights Court.
• Colombian International Trade Ministry (1999) Advisor of the economic integration and multilateral affairs director.
Ability to integrate public policy with business strategy and corporate development
• Alvaro prepared an act project on cyber crime for the Colombian Bank Association. The project will be filed promptly at the Colombian Congress.
• For many years I advised the Colombian Software Federation –Fedesoft- on public policy issues, one of the results was the Tax exemption for software companies and
other copyrights issues.
• As member of the Colombia Competitiveness Network I worked with main Colombian companies in order to obtain a regulation on electronic invoices.
• He worked together with the Colombian Chamber on Informatics and Telecommunications on ISP responsibility (DMCA Adoption).
• Alvaro helped to create the Colombian branch of the Interactive Advertising Bureau and worked with the founders on anti spam regulation.
Familiarity with Internet technologies and related policy environments
• Only Latin American member of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC-WBO) EBITT commission (e-business, Information Technologies and Telecommunications).
Alvaro was proposed to be part of Global Alliance for ICT.
• I was a member at large of ICANN (2000)
• Colombian representative of “Coloriuris”, a civil law movement comparable to Creative Commons www.coloriuris.net
• First in Colombia to win a domain name dispute (2000)
• First to file a Spam lawsuit in Latin America (2003)
• First and only to file a complete lawsuit electronically (2003)
• Fourth lawyer to have a digital signature in Colombia (the first worked for the certification company)
• I have directed for 8 years the only Colombian law firm (and one of very fews in LA) focused on Internet technologies law. www.brlegal.com
Ability to work with multinational companies
• Spanish (100%), English (TOEFL 263 CBT), French (100%), Italian (40%) and Portuguese (30%)
• He lived and worked abroad (France, Spain and Italy)
• He traveled in North, Central and South America, Europe and Africa.
• Good experience working and living in a multicultural environment.
Demonstrable leadership skills and the ability to collaborate with energy, motivation, determination, and a passion.
• Since school he co founded the School radio, law school review and TV Journal. I was the student representative from my class, school and law school.
• Alvaro had a very active participation in different associations:
a. Member of the Colombian American Chamber of Commerce legal committee
b. Member of the Board of the Colombian Industrial Property Association
c. Director of the French universities alumni’s association (we invited a former French prime minister to Colombia),
d. Colombian representative of a French NGO,
e. Treasurer of a French law students association
• He was selected by the Bogota’s Chamber of Commerce as the most active member of their legal commission (2004)
