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Lic. Roberto Alonzo del Cid

Roberto Alonzo

Training:

• Lawyer and Notary graduate of Universidad Rafael Landívar in 2001.
• Master’s Degree in Commercial Economic Law by Universidad Rafael Landívar in 2007.
• Master’s Degree in Legal Practice by Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía (ISDE) Spain.
• Postgraduate Course in Civil Cassation by Universidad San Pablo de Guatemala.
• Postgraduate Course of Actualization in Contemporary Commercial Law by Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala and Guatemalan Commercial Law Institute.
• Diploma of Actualization in Comparative Civil Law and Civil Litigation Law, taught jointly by the Bar Association of Zaragoza, España, the Bar Association of Guatemala and Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala.
• Maritime Law Course by Universidad Rafael Landívar.
• Environmental Law Course by Universidad Rafael Landívar.
• Bilingual English-Spanish.

Experience:

• 14 years of professional graduation (Visit Practice areas).
• Advice to public institutions (Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Ministry of Economy, Government Department in charge of immigration and Guatemala City Hall), with a total accumulated experience of more than 20 years.
• Advise to all kinds of companies, specially those related to medicine industry, agrochemicals, insurance, among others.
• Guatemalan representative at the Intergovernmental meeting to review and further develop draft guidelines for the development of domestic legislation on liability, response action and compensation for damage caused by activities dangerous to the environment, held at Nairobi, Kenia, by the United Nations Environment Programme, in 2009.
• Guatemalan representative at the Intergovernmental meeting to review and further develop draft guidelines for the development of national legislation on access to information, public participation and access to justice in environmental matters, held at Nairobi, Kenia, by the United Nations Environment Programme, in 2009.
• Member of the Internal Review Committee of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources about the National Implementation Plan of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.
• Member of the Guatemalan civil courts support staff for more than 4 years during his professional education.
• 18 Civil and Commercial Litigation courses taught.
• Member of the board of examiners for graduation exam.
• Member of the board of examiners for thesis exam for degree and master’s degree.
• Degree and master’s degree thesis advisor.
• 2 law related publications: Guatemalan Civil and Commercial Litigation Law. General Part; and Legal Protection of the Undisclosed Information in Guatemala.