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Attorney
at Law and Notary Public
rcastaneda@aczalaw.com
Higher Education: Doctor in
Jurisprudence and Social Sciences,
Universidad Nacional de El Salvador, 1965; Authorized as Attorney at
Law and Notary Public by the Supreme Court of Justice of El Salvador
since 1967; Master in Public Administration, Mason Fellow
Kennedy, School of Government, Harvard University, 1988-89;
Master in Commercial, Tax and Public International Laws,
University of Michigan School of Law, Ann Arbor, 1967-68;
Postgraduate Studies: International Public Law and Treaties Law,
International Law Academy, The Hague, The Netherlands, 1969.
Other Studies:
Orientation Program in American Law,
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1967.
Legal Experience:
Senior Partner of ACZALAW Central American Firm, since March 2002;
Founding Partner Castaneda, Salinas & Asociados at present Castaneda,
Gutierrez & Asociados, San Salvador, since 1978.
Legal Practice:
Corporate Law; Public Law; Government Contracts; Private and Public
International Law; Electricity, Hydrocarbons and Gas Law;
International Trade; Foreign Investment; Bids and Privatizations;
Notary Public Law; Business Law in general.
Diplomatic Experience and Public
Posts: Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Republic
of El Salvador in the United Nations, 1989-00 (as such, Liason
between the Negotiating Government Delegation and the United Nations
during the Peace Process of El Salvador, New York, 1989-92; and
Collaborator in the confirmation and compliance phase of the Peace
Accords of El Salvador, 1992-00); Chief of Mission and Special
Representative appointed by the President of the Republic of El
Salvador in the Summit of the Group of 77 and China in Havana, Cuba,
2000; Vice-Minister and Charges d’Affairs of Foreign Affairs of the
Republic of El Salvador, San Salvador, 1972-77; Economic Advisor and
Alternate Delegate of the Permanent Mission at the United Nations,
New York, 1970-72.
Other Posts and Memberships:
President of the National Committee and Director for El Salvador at
the INCAE (Central American Institute for Business Administration),
1981-88; External Director, Banco Cuscatlán, S.A., San Salvador,
1980-81 and 1987-88; Founding member of FUSADES (Salvadorian
Foundation for the Development of El Salvador), since
1994; Member of the Center of Legal Studies of El Salvador; Member
of the American Society of International Law; Member of the Hispanic-Portuguese-American
Institute of International Law, El Escorial, Spain; Member of the
National Council of UNESCO in El Salvador; Director of the
Salvadorian Cultural Center; Director of SALVANATURA (Ecological
Foundation of El Salvador); President of the Salvadorian
Business Council of Sustainable Development (CEDES), since 2000.
Academic Experience:
Professor of Public International Law, Universidad Autónoma de El
Salvador, 1969-70; Deputy Professor of Public Finances, Tax Law and
Public International Law, Universidad Nacional de El Salvador, 1966.
Distinctions:
Republic of China, “Nubes Propicias”
Order, 1978; Republic of Perú, “El Sol del Perú” Order, Grade: Gran
Cruz, 1977; Federal Republic of Brazil, “Rio Branco” Order. Grade:
Gran Cruz, 1976.
Lectures:
Lectures on El Salvador and the Peace Process, given in the
following institutions: Harvard University, Princeton University,
Columbia University, Michigan University, Hofstra University,
Council on Foreign Relations, New York, Americas Society, New York,
Oklahoma University; Lectures on El Salvador given to different
business communities in the United States of America (Rochester, New
York, Nashville, Tennessee and Hartford, Connecticut).
Languages:
Spanish and
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