Juan David García Vidal - GPR Consulting

Juan David García Vidal

Lawyer & Manager, Consultant and Founding Partner.

Juan David is a founding partner, a consultant and the manager of GPR Consulting®. He heads the international area. His professional practice focuses on business consulting and international business. He has advised, for over eight years, foreign investors, as well as international trading companies. He speaks Spanish and English.

Studies

• Georgetown University (Washington D.C., USA): Master of Laws in International Business and Economic Law. Certificate in Foundations of American Law and Legal Education. Certificate in Intensive Legal English.

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• Universidad Externado de Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia): Master in International Affairs. Jean Monnet EuropeanUnion Law Certificate.

• Columbia University (New York, USA): Certificate in International Affairs.

• Sciences Po (Paris, France): Certificate in International Affairs.

• Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana: Bachelor of Law (JD Equivalent).

Professional Experience

• GPR Consulting (Medellín-Bogotá, Colombia): Founding partner, manager, legal advisor and consultant in international business (2017- Present).

• World Bank (Washington D.C., USA): Short Term Consultant at the Doing Business Project (2016).

• Independent Lawyer (Medellín, Colombia): Legal advisor to several companies in corporate and commercial Law (2008-2015).

• C.I. Global Trade (Medellín, Colombia): Permanent legal advisor in international business transactions (2010-2015).

• Medellin Chamber of Commerce: Registry lawyer (2006-2007).

Academy

• EAFIT University: Professor of Public international Law (2011-2015/ 2017-present). Taught the following courses in the Law and International Business programs; International Commercial Law and Commercial Integration Law. Taught the following courses in the Summer Program: Introduction to International Law, Introduction to International Relations, and International Organizations and the United Nations. Taught International Security Course in the Security graduate certificate program. Taught courses on the activities and roles of multilateral financial institutions in the international financial system.

• El Casillo Museum: Lecturer of Geopolitics (2017-present).

• Georgetown University: Teaching assistant for the Foundations of American Law and Intensive Legal English Summer Courses (2016).

• Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana: Professor of International Commercial Law in the International Business program (2014-2015).

• Yurupary Academy: Lecturer of Geopolitics in the Humanities Program (2011-2015).

Publications

• Academic articles on the border conflict between Colombia and Nicaragua.

• Columns of opinion between 2002 and 2004 in the newspaper El Colombiano.