CUMIPAZ

Graduated from the Universidad Libre of Colombia, a Ph.D. candidate of the Externado University of Colombia; Masters in Public Law at the Universidad Externado University of Colombia in agreement with the Bologna University in Italy, Salamanca and Carlos III of Spain.

Legal Institution Specialist - Public Policy and Law at the National University of Colombia and post-graduate in Constitutional Law at the University of Salamanca (Spain).

He currently serves as a judge of the Superior Judicial Council and Chairman of the Disciplinary Tribunal of said Corporation, with extensive work experience in the public sector where he has held elected office as Member of the Assembly of Boyacá and Councilor of his native municipality Gachantivá (Boyacá); Mayor appointed Manager and Secretary of Government of the city of Tunja.

He has been a lecturer and speaker on policy issues at a national and international level as well as an undergraduate and graduate professor in the subjects of Constitutional Law and  General Constitutional Rights, and Colombian Human Rights, Comparative Political Systems  and Constitutional Theory at the Universities Libre of Colombia, Jorge Tadeo Lozano , Santo Tomas and the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia.

Author of "THE POLITICAL REFORM" and "PARLIAMENTARY GROUPS, Political Parties and Movements in Colombia".

His achievements have earned him major awards and honors, including the imposition of the medal "José Ignacio de Márquez" in the GOLD category, granted in 2012 by the President of the Colombia and the Administrative Chamber of the Judiciary Superior Council, "for its exceptional merits, contribution to the enrichment of jurisprudence and the prestige of the judiciary administration".