AMBASSADOR ÁLVARO SANDOVAL BERNAL

CURRICULUM VITAE

GENERAL INFORMATION

Name: Álvaro SANDOVAL BERNAL Date and Birth Place: D.C., , May 11, 1963

Marital Status: Married Wife: Mme. Ángela Cordero de Sandoval

ACADEMIC FORMATION YEAR

Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies 2002 Université de Genève, Switzerland D.E.A. Study in Law with emphasis on International Law

Master Analysis in Political, Economic 1994 Universidad Externado de Colombia and International Contemporary in agreement with l´Institut Problems. d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France

Specialization in International Relations 1990 Fondazione di Ricerche e Studi Internazionali di Firenze, Italy

Degree: Lawyer 1987 Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario

Courses and Seminars Year Institution

Seminar on the Law of the Sea 2006 United Nations Institute for Training and Research UNITAR UN, New York

Deposit and Registration Seminar 2005 United Nations Institute for Training Treaties and Agreements and Research UNITAR UN, New York

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Course on Basics of International 1998 Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Committee, Geneva, Switzerland.

Course in Specialization in Economy for 1995 Universidad del Rosario Non Economists

Seminar in History of Colombian 1984 Universidad Externado de Political Thought de Colombia

Languages

English French Italian Spanish

WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

Job Position Period Entity Ambassador Extraordinary 2013- The Embassy of Republic of Plenipotentiary Colombia to the Arab Republic of Egypt

Ambassador 2010 - 2011 Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of Legal Affairs

Coordinator of Legal 2008 - 2010 Ministry of Foreign Affairs Concepts

Vice-President 2007 Sixth Committee of the General Assembly of United Nations (62° session)

Vice-President 2006-2007 Commission of the United Nations International Trade Law UNCITRAL (39th Session)

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Char 2008 (17-23-III) Permanent Mission of Colombia before United Nations – New York

Minister Plenipotentiary 2007 -2008 Permanent Mission of Colombia before United Nations– New York

Minister Counselor 2005-2007 Permanent Mission of Colombia before United Nations– New York

Counselor 2004-2005 Permanent Mission of Colombia before United Nations– New York

2000 (1-6- I) Permanent Mission of Colombia before United Nations– Geneva

Counselor 1998 – 2000 Permanent Mission of Colombia before United Nations– Geneva

First Secretary 1996-1997 Permanent Mission of Colombia before United Nations– Geneva

Consultant 1995-1996 National Narcotics Department (Commission given by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Consul of Colombia 1991-1994 Ministry of Foreign Affairs Berlin, Germany

Second Secretary in the ranks 1990 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Diplomatic and Consular Career

Lawyer Legal Department 1988/89 Banco de Colpatria

General Secretary 1987 FIDEC Foundation for Research and Development of Political Science

Lawyer Legal Department 1985/87 Banco de Bogotá

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NATIONAL CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

Member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs in the framework of the preparatory committees (1990) of the National Constituent Assembly 1991, Bogota DC, Colombia.

Participant of "Days of university students in the Congress", representing the University College of Our Lady Del Rosario, 1983, Bogota DC, Colombia.

MULTILATERAL CONFERENCES

Delegate of Colombia to the Assembly of the States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, The Hague, Netherlands (2012).

Delegate of Colombia in the negotiation process of the proposed Free Trade Agreement between the Republic of Colombia and the Republic of Costa Rica, San Jose (2012).

Delegate of Colombia in the Working Group IV (Electronic Commerce) Legal Issues Relating to use of electronic transferable records, UNCITRAL, Vienna, October 29- November 2, 2012.

Delegate of Colombia in the Working Group on the Crime of Aggression under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (2004-2008).

Delegate of Colombia in the American Committee against Drug Abuse CICAD, 2002, Washington DC, 2002, Mexico City, and 2003, Panama City.

Delegate of Colombia in the Commission on Narcotic Drugs - United Nations, 2002 and 2003, Vienna.

Delegate of Colombia in the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court, 2001, New York.

Delegate of Colombia in the conferences of the International Committee of the Red Cross, 1998-2000, Geneva, Switzerland.

Delegate of Colombia in the former Commission on Human Rights, 1996-2000, Geneva, Switzerland.

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LECTURES

TOPICS INSTITUTIONS Convention for abolishing Universidad Católica requirement of foreign public de Chile documents legalization

Liberal Thought in Colombia Universidad de la Sabana

Social liberalism - Lopez Foundation for Research and Pumarejo and Jorge Eliecer Gaitán, Development of political Science convergences and contrasts. FIDEC

Centralism and federalism in the Universidad de los Andes, Lecture Colombian Constitutional History Constitutional History

Milestones of the Constitution Ibero-Amerikanisches institute, Berlin Germany

Psychoactive Drugs and Violence Colombian Medicine Academy

Basics and principles of International Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora Humanitarian Law

The International Criminal Court San Carlos Diplomatic Academy United Nations Systems: Challenges Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora And Reforms del Rosario University

Pillars of Colombian foreign policy United Nations, New York

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

LECTURES UNIVERSITY

Public International Law Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario University, Bogotá D.C Faculty of Law

Private International Law Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario University, Bogotá D.C Faculty of Law

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History of Political Ideas Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario University, Bogotá D.C. Faculty of Law

FOUNDATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS

Founding Member and Secretary Foundation for Research and General (1989) Development of Political Science FIDEC

Founding member and former member of Colombian Academy of the Board International Law

PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH

ARTICLES YEAR MEDIA

The International Criminal Court 2007 El Tiempo in the path of global justice

Diplomacy in the age of globalization 2006 El Espectador

United Nations: A comprehensive 2005 El Tiempo Reform

The Globalization of Law and 2004 El Espectador the decline of the nation state

Berlin: city of two tales 1991 San Carlos Foreign Affairs Magazine

The confinement of the humanities 1986 El Rosario University as a sign of our times. Magazine

The prison system inmate 1985 Consigna Magazine rehabilitation or degradation

Sterile Generation 1983 El Tiempo

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MONOGRAPHIES

La juridiction consultative de la Cour Interaméricaine des Droits de l’Homme The Marshall Plan and the reconstruction of Europe

BOOKS

The consultative system in international law (in preparation)

Law Articles Co-author

HOBBIES

Reading (history, art, science and archaeology)

Opera, theatre and art cinema

SPORTS

Tennis, basketball and ice-skate

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