Antonio Tejeda Encinas

Brief CV

Selected Areas of Legal Practice

• ATTORNEY practicing in Spain, the Canary Islands, Ireland and Portugal
• CEO META Channel corp. Europe
• Insolvency Administrator
• Member, Jurisdictional Committee of the PS (Portalegre-Portugal)
• President of several legal services companies in:
  • Spain
    • Digital Law
    • Commercial Law
    • Foreign Investment
    • Labor Law
    • European Union Law
    • International Law
  • Portugal
  • Turkey
  • Ireland
• European Projects Coordinator
  • European Social Fund -ESF -Equal Community Initiative

Selected Professional Credentials

• Expert in Digital Transformation for the legal industry and Business, Commercial Law, TIC 4.0 and. IT Law
• International Consultant and Lecturer in Digital Law and Digital Transformation applied to international companies and organisations.

 Selected Academic Credentials

• Bachelor of Laws (Licenciado en Derecho)
• Doctor of European Union Law
• Affiliated Professor at the Instituto de Derecho de la Unión Europea -IDUE- Spain
• Master’s in Political Science
• Diploma in International Law
• Computer Programmer
• Master’s in Human Resources Management
• Master’s in Ergonomics and Applied Psychosociology
• Master’s, Specialization in Industrial Hygiene
• Master’s in Occupational Safety
• Master’s in Marketing and International Trade
• Master’s in Marketing and Corporate Communication
• Specialist in Intercultural Mediation

 Selected Institutional Activities

• President, Euro-American Committee of Digital Law - CEA Digital Law
• President, Radio Hemisférica
• Presidente PCDD-CPDL-DDhh: Association for Citizen Participation in Defense of Fundamental Rights, Democracy and Digital Rights
• Former President, Asociación Empresarial Europea Hispano Luso Cubana
• Former Secretary General, Cámara de Comercio Hispano Turca
• Former General Rapporteur of the Inter-American Bar Association and member of the Executive Committee
• Former Council Member, Inter-American Bar Association
• Former President of the Commercial, Banking, Securities and Business Advisory Committee of the Inter-American Bar Association
• Former Secretary General, Academia Inter Americana de Derecho Internacional y Comparado
• Honorary Member of IAB -Instituto dos Advogados Brasileiros
• International Election Observer
• UNCITRAL Observer, New York and Vienna sessions
  • Working Group I MSMEs
  • Working Group IV Electronic Commerce

Selected Lectures

• Confederación Estatal de Asociaciones de Vecinos – May 2007
  GLOBAL MIGRATION: “The new neighbors: impacts and challenges of immigration in Spain”
• Speaker at the Union Internationale des Avocats – UIA- 55th Congress 2011 Miami (Panel: Ellen YOST (Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy) New York, NY, United States
• Speaker at the Women’s Committee of the Inter-American Bar Association (FIA – IABA)   Lima, Peru, 2015, on the topic GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE: An Approach to the Council of Europe Istanbul Convention
• Speaker at the III International Congress on Mediation and Arbitration CIMAV 2016, May 4 and 5, Valencia (Spain),   on the topic ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN FAMILY LAW: Special Relevance for Family Businesses. Presentation delivered: Business Mediation in Light of the Latest UNCITRAL Reforms
• Speaker at the Commercial Law, Banking, Securities and Business Advisory Committee of the Inter-American Bar Association (FIA – IABA).  Miami, June  2016, on the topic The Impact of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Foreign Investment.
• Speaker at Abogacía 2016 (ONBC – Organización Nacional de Bufetes Colectivos)  Havana –  CUBA – October 2016.   As President of the Cámara de Comercio Europea Hispano Luso Cubana, on the topic “Systematics of the UNCITRAL Rules  on Foreign Investment”
• Moderator as President of the Commercial Law, Banking, Securities and Business Advisory Committee of the Inter-American Bar Association (FIA – IABA). Dominican Republic 2018 “Business Development under the Rule of Law. Anti-Money Laundering and Professional Secrecy”
• Speaker at the Commercial Law, Banking, Securities and Business Advisory Committee of the Inter-American Bar Association (FIA – IABA).  Costa Rica, June  2019, on the topic: Legal Core Business 4.0 Digital Transformation in Business: blockchain, smart contracts…
• Presentation at the 1st Inter-American Legal Congress of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, 2019, on the topic: The Inter-American Bar Association as a Defender of the Rule of Law
• Moderator, International Seminar on the Conventionalization and Constitutionalization of Rights – Inter-American Bar Association (November 2019, Asunción, Paraguay)

Selected Social and Community Interests

• Real Sociedad Económica Extremeña de Amigos del País  (RSEEAP), board member of its Local Studies Committee.
• Former Board Member for Immigration and Social Inclusion of the Board of the Federación de Asociaciones de Vecinos de Badajoz y Provincia. (2008/2009).
• Former Secretary General, Federación de Asociaciones de Inmigrantes de Extremadura (FIEX) 2009.
• Former Regional Secretary for Insurance and Offices, Federación de Servicios de UGT de Extremadura 2013
• Member (Vogal), Comissão Jurisdicional do PS de Portugal
• Secretary for Electoral Action and Training, PSOE
• Former President, Asociación Empresarial de San Roque en Badajoz 2016
• Board Member, Asociación Empresarial Iniciativa +1.
• Member of NERSANT – Associação Empresarial da Região de Santarém (Portugal)
• Member of AIP -Associação Industrial Portuguesa
• Member of COEBA -Confederación Asociaciones Empresariales en de Badajoz

EXPERIENCE
– International Business Negotiations
– Business Management
– Management of Legal Departments
– International Business Promoter
– Merger & acquisition strategies for buying SME’s
– Manage Networks and Information Systems
– Ease to communicate and establish relationships.
– Interpretative ability
– Interest in planning, executing or directing research projects.
– Agility to perform mathematical calculations.
– Problem determination