Background
Linares-Cantillo, Alejandro was born in 1959 in Bogotá, Colombia.
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Alejandro Linares-Cantillo
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Universidad de los Andes, Law School (Juris Doctor, 1984. Master in Finance, 1989). Harvard Law School (Master of Laws-I.T.P., 1985).
Georgetown University Law Center and International Law Institute (Orientation in the United States.
Legal System, 1984); spoken languages: Spanish, English and French.
Career
Worked at Gomez Pinzon y Asociados (Bogota) specializing in Project Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Energy, Foreign Investment Law. Admitted to the bar, 1984, Colombia. Experience: Director of the National Rehabilitation Program and Executive Director of the Solidarity and Social Emergency Fund, Presidency of the Republic of Colombia, 1993-1994.
Advisor to the President on Social Policy, 1992-1993.
Vice-Minister of Agriculture, 1992. Plenipotentiary Minister, Colombian Embassy in Paris, 1991-1992.
Director of the Foreign Investments Division, National Planning Department, 1989-1991. Colombian negotiator before General Agreement of Tariff and Trades in matters related to Intellectual Property Rights and Trade Related Investment Measures, 1990.
Manager of the Legal and External Relations Department, 1989 and Legal Counsel, 1986-1989, International Business Machines Corporation of Colombia.
Director of Legal Division, Public Credit Office, Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, 1986. Foreign Attorney, Sidley & Austin, New York, 1985-1986. Summer Associate, Holland & Knight, 1985.
Partner, Vilamizar Linares Abogados, 1983-1984.
Member of the Colombian team and The 1983 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, Washington, District of Columbia, April 1983. Professor: International Business Law, 1992.
Public Finance, 1990-1992, 1994-1996. Foreign Trade and Exchange Regulations, 1986-1990, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá.
Author: "Project Finance in Colombia," IFLR Supplement on Latin America, 1996.
"Protection and Guarantee for Foreign Investments according to Colombian Economic Law," Revista de Derecho Privado, 1995. "Notes about the New Colombian Foreign Investments Statute," Revista de Derecho Económico, 1991. "Foreign Capital Investment Funds," Mercado de Capitales magazine, 1991.
Member: Asociación de Derecho Económico.
International Fiscal Association (IFA). American Bar Association.
International Law & Practice: LES Colombia-Ecuador.
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Membership
Member: Asociación de Derecho Económico. International Fiscal Association (IFA). American Bar Association.
International Law & Practice: LES Colombia-Ecuador.
