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ACADEMIC BACKGROUND<\/strong>
\n1990-1996. Law Degree (Attorney) from the Universidad Santiago de Cali.
\n1997- 1998. Specialist in Criminal Law, Universidad Santiago de Cali.
\n2003. University Congress of Criminal Law Students. The criminal justice system facing the challenges of the new society. Salamanca, Spain.
\n2003. 10th Course on Current Issues in Criminology: The Different Perspectives of Crime. Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.
\n2005. Course on social economy, development and self-employment: new sources of employment. Organized by the Fundaci\u00f3n Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.
\n2012. Postgraduate Diploma in Criminal Policy and Criminal Law: Current Issues, at the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.
\n2012- Postgraduate Diploma in Current Issues in Constitutional Law, at the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.
\n2013. Postgraduate Diploma in the Protection of Constitutional Rights in Contemporary Democracies, at the Universidad de Salamanca.
\n2012. Specialization in Criminal Law of New Technologies. Bogot\u00e1. Colegio Abogados de Bogot\u00e1.
\n2014. PHD CANDIDATE IN THE DOCTORAL PROGRAM \u201cCiencias jur\u00eddicas, econ\u00f3micas y sociales\u201d (Legal, Economic and Social Sciences) at the Universidad de Burgos, Spain, with the doctoral thesis: FOUNDATIONS FOR A CRIMINAL THEORY OF PERPETRATION BY LEGAL PERSONS, supervised by Prof. Dr. D. (accredited Full Professor) Miguel \u00c1ngel Iglesias R\u00edos of the Universidad de Burgos, Spain.
\n2013. DIPLOMA OF ADVANCED STUDIES (DEA) FROM THE UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA.
\n2014. Postgraduate Diploma, Update on the Criminal Justice System, at the UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA, SPAIN.
\n2015. Postgraduate Diploma in the Prevention of Corruption in the Public and Private Sectors. Universidad de Castilla- la Mancha.
\n2015. Executive Program Course for Compliance Officers (Legal Controller). Wolters Kluwer Formaci\u00f3n S. A., Madrid.
\n2015. Postgraduate Diploma in Administrative and Financial Law: Assistance to Public Institutions. Universidad de Salamanca.
\n2015. Course on the REFORM OF THE SPANISH CRIMINAL CODE, 2015. Klower Wolkter S. A. Formaci\u00f3n.
\n2015. COMPLIANCE OFFICER Course. United States Interamerican affairs.
\n2015. 4th Congress of Young Researchers in Criminal Sciences. Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.
\n2016. Course on Political Campaign Strategy, George Washington University, Washington DC.
\n2016. Postgraduate Diploma in Criminal Law. Special Part. Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.
\n2015. Compliance Officer Course at the Interamerican Usa Communittty Affairs, held in Miami, United States.
\n2015. Forensic Auditor Course, with the Interamerican USA Communitty Affairs, held in Lima, Peru, under the auspices of the Universidad San Marcos de Per\u00fa.
\n2015. Advanced Diploma in Human Rights and Conventionality Control, from the Universit\u00e1 di Bologna Scuola Superiore di Studi Giuridichi and the Asociaci\u00f3n Colombiana de Derecho procesal constitucional, held in Bogot\u00e1 DC.
\n2015. Participation in the International Seminar \u201cExpert or Expert Witness\u201d in the American adversarial criminal justice system, held in Lima, Peru.
\n2015. Attendance at the 1st International Congress of the FICP held in Barcelona, 29 and 30 May 2015.
\n2017. Attendance and Paper on Compliance at the 2nd International Congress of the FICP held in Bogot\u00e1, DC, on the premises of the Universidad del Rosario.
\n2016. Postgraduate Diploma in Criminal Law. Special Part. Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.
\n2017. Course on campaign simulation. Escuela Internacional de Gobierno de Madrid.
\n2017. Attendance at the Semana forum, \u201cCorruption as the worst form of violence\u201d, in Bogot\u00e1, DC, on 19 and 20 April 2017.
\n2017. Forum on legal certainty, organized by the Universit\u00e0 di Salerno in Bogot\u00e1 DC, 27 April 2017.
\n2017. 2nd International Compliance Congress, organized by Thomson Reuters, at the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, on 11 and 12 May 2017.
\n2017. 2nd International Congress on Transparency and Access to Public Information, at the Faculty of Information Sciences of the Universidad Complutense
\nde Madrid, from 27 to 29 September 2017.
\n2018. 3rd International Compliance Congress, organized by Thomson Reuters. Madrid.
\n2018. Compliance Officer Course. Anti-Money Laundering. Obliged Entities. New York, April 2018. United States Interamerican Community Affairs.
\n2018. Corporate Governance. Emphasis on financial risk management and administrative
\ncorruption. United States Interamerican Community Affairs. New York, April 2018.<\/p>\n

OTHER COURSES AND SEMINARS<\/strong>
\nVarious courses and seminars on Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure in Colombia and Europe, and attendance at numerous forums.
\n1992. First Seminar on the New Code of Criminal Procedure. Universidad Santiago de Cali.
\n1993. Workshop Seminar on Criminal Evidence. Universidad Santiago de Cali.
\n1994. 2nd International Seminar on Criminal Law. Universidad Santiago de Cali.
\n1994. Second Seminar on the New Code of Criminal Procedure. Universidad Santiago de Cali.
\n1995. Seminar on the Anti-Corruption Statute, Ley 190 de 1995. Universidad Santiago de Cali.
\n1995. 3rd International Seminar on Criminal Law. Universidad Santiago de Cali.
\n2017. Conference on Criminal Policy and Criminal Prosecution. Bogot\u00e1 DC. Organized by the Fiscal\u00eda General de la Naci\u00f3n, on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. 4, 5 and 6 July 2017. DISTINCTION
\nRecognition for the loyalty shown to the Universidad de Salamanca, for multiple participations in its specialization courses in Law (Salamanca, 26 June 2014).
\nHONORARY DOCTORATE (HONORIS CAUSA) FROM THE UNIVERSIDAD PRIVADA ICA, PERU. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
\nFormer Lecturer at the Universidad Santiago de Cali, for two terms: adjunct (hourly) lecturer. Trial lawyer 1996- 2018.
\nLANGUAGES: ENGLISH Instituto Harris, Cali- Colombia. ITALIAN: Universit\u00e0 di Bologna, Italy.<\/p>\n

PUBLICATIONS<\/strong>
\n1997 Equitipicidad, culpabilidad, preterintenci\u00f3n y subrogados penales. Ediciones Jur\u00eddicas Gustavo Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez. ISBN: 958- 9333-88-5.
\n1998 Control de legalidad de las medidas de aseguramiento, Testaferrato, detenci\u00f3n domiciliaria, y auxiliares en la Litis. Ediciones jur\u00eddicas Gustavo Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez. ISBN 958-9333-77- X.
\n1999 El an\u00f3nimo como forma ilegal de activar la jurisdicci\u00f3n penal. Ediciones jur\u00eddicas Gustavo Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez. ISBN: 958-8087-12-0.
\n2002 El deber de probidad funcionarial como bien jur\u00eddico en el delito de Peculado a costa del garantismo penal. Estudios en Homenaje al profesor Herney Hoyos Garc\u00e9s. Ediciones jur\u00eddicas Gustavo Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez. ISBN: 958-8087-82-1.
\n2005 Derecho penal y control social. Con referencia especial a la sociedad colombiana. In the book Serta in Memoriam Alexandri Baratta. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. Also published on the website of Carlos Parma, Argentina, www.carlosparma.ar
\n2006. La exigencia de un m\u00e9todo en el debate actual de la cuesti\u00f3n de la responsabilidad penal de las personas jur\u00eddicas. \u00bfTiene un futuro la dogm\u00e1tica penal de las personas jur\u00eddicas?. Ediciones jur\u00eddicas Gustavo Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez. ISBN 958-97791-9-0.
\n2007. Dos estudios en el nuevo Derecho penal hipermoderno: la exigencia de un cambio de paradigma en el tema de la in-migraci\u00f3n a la medida del ser humano y Derecho penal y control social. Con especial referencia a la sociedad colombiana. Ediciones jur\u00eddicas Gustavo Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez, 2002. ISBN: 958-978-8297-86-6. Also published on the website: www.carlosparma.com
\n2012. Hacia d\u00f3nde va el derecho penal. Un nuevo fundamento basado en el sentido com\u00fan. EQUITIPICIDAD. 2nd EDITION Ratio Legis, Salamanca, Spain. ISBN: 9788493975623.
\n2012. La responsabilidad penal de las personas jur\u00eddicas. Una tarea inconclusa en Espa\u00f1a y Colombia. Ratio Legis, Salamanca, Spain. ISBN: 978-8494 014468.
\n2013. Participation in the International Congress on the Implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in Spain, Seville, 4 to 6 November 2013.
\n2014. La eficacia de las decisiones de la CIDH y del TEDH. Con especial referencia al h\u00e1beas corpus preventivo. Grupo Editorial Gustavo Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez. ISBN: 978- 958- 749- 310-8.
\n2015. El descontrol como fundamento de la responsabilidad empresarial. El Compliance (su definici\u00f3n) eficaz como causal de irresponsabilidad de las personas jur\u00eddicas. La urgente necesidad en Colombia de castigar penalmente a las empresas. Revista Actualidad Penal No. 17. Instituto Pac\u00edfico, Lima, Peru. ISSN: 2313-268X.
\n2015. La necesidad del contenido propio del deber de las personas jur\u00eddicas delineados por un m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de la eficacia de los programas de cumplimiento. Revista Actualidad Penal No. 12. Lima, Peru. ISNN: 2313-268X
\n2015. El ocaso de la noci\u00f3n del bloque de constitucionalidad. In AA. VV. ABOGAC\u00cdA y DERECHO. Gesti\u00f3n de conflictos jur\u00eddicos. Havana, Cuba. 2015. ISBN: 978-959-7234-31-9.
\n2016. La responsabilidad administrativa de las personas jur\u00eddicas. Introducci\u00f3n para una responsabilidad penal de las personas jur\u00eddicas en Colombia. Editorial Grupo Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez. ISBN: 978-958-749-516-4
\n2017. El compliance eficaz como causal de irresponsabilidad de las personas jur\u00eddicas. La urgente necesidad en Colombia de castigar penalmente a las empresas. Argentine journal
\nPensamiento Penal. The same article in the Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress on Current Problems of Criminal Law, organized by the Universidad del Rosario, Colombia, and the Fundaci\u00f3n Internacional de Ciencias Penales.
\n2017. Proyecto Hoowarr sobre una responsabilidad penal de las personas jur\u00eddicas en Colombia. Grupo Editorial Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez. ISBN 978-958-749.
\n2017. Bases para un derecho penal de las m\u00e1quinas. Argentine journal Pensamiento Penal No. 283, 10 July 2017.
\n2017. ASPECTOS SUSTANCIALES Y PROCESALES DE LA RESPONSABILIDAD PENAL DE LAS PERSONAS JUR\u00cdDICAS. Las nuevas personas en el derecho penal: la persona jur\u00eddica
\npropiamente dicha, la persona electr\u00f3nica y la persona evolutiva. Editorial Leyer, in press. Blog: www.derechopenal, formerly attached to the online newspaper www.elpais.es, Spain. Blog: derecho penal in the www.elpais.es community, Spain. Topics covered:
\n1. Paramilitarism, guerrillas and drug trafficking in Colombia. Towards a rational-pragmatic criminal law, 2. Memory in hypermodern times, 3. Climate change and the criminal liability of legal persons, 4. The need for a paradigm shift on immigration tailored to the human being. To be continued, 5. Christmas hyperconsumption, 6. The need for a method in the current debate on the criminal liability of legal persons, 7. The new science of emotions. The 21st-century woman. The hypermodern woman, 8.
\nSensitive intelligence, 9. More on evidentiary discovery, 10. Stages of evidentiary discovery, 2. 11. The effects of habeas corpus, 12. Where is criminal law heading? 13. The
\ntheory of punishment today, 14. A few points on telephone interceptions in Colombia, 15. License of the multinational DRUMOND suspended in Colombia, 16. The case of the mining company Drumond in Colombia, similar to the Prestige oil tanker case in Spain, 17. The criminal liability of legal persons. An unfinished task in Spain and Colombia, 18. The criminal liability of legal persons in Spain. To be continued. References to the Drumond, Calenturitas and Interbolsa cases in Colombia, 19. The criminal liability of legal persons. To be continued. References to cases in Colombia, 20. The doctrine of domestic terrorism, 21. The Interbolsa case and the criminal liability of legal persons in Colombia, 22. The recognition of the criminal liability of legal persons. A necessary step towards OECD membership, 23. The OECD, regarded as the club of good practices, invites Colombia on Thursday 29 May 2013, and the criminal liability of legal persons, 24. Colombia formalizes its accession to the OECD.<\/p>\n

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

CEO of the Asociaci\u00f3n colombiana de Derecho penal empresarial ASCOLDPEM.
\nMember of the Asociaci\u00f3n Iberoamericana de Derecho penal econ\u00f3mico y de la Empresa.
\nMember of CUMPLEN.
\nIN THE PROCESS OF ACAMS ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING CERTIFICATION.
\nColumnist for the newspaper ARGUMENTOS, published by Editorial Gustavo Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez, based in Bogot\u00e1 DC, 2014, first edition:
\n\u201cla responsabilidad penal de las personas jur\u00eddicas en Colombia, una tarea pendiente\u201d.
\n\u201cEl ocaso del bloque de constitucionalidad\u201d.
\n\u201cLa necesidad de un contenido concreto y propio de los deberes de la persona jur\u00eddica, y un criterio de autor\u00eda penal para la persona jur\u00eddica \u201d Parts I and II.
\n\u201cLa cuesti\u00f3n antidemocr\u00e1tica de la contrataci\u00f3n p\u00fablica directa con las fundaciones en Colombia. La necesidad de un nuevo Estado en Colombia, para una verdadera transparencia democr\u00e1tica de buena gobernanza\u201d.
\n\u201cLa infracci\u00f3n de deber propio de las empresas\u201d. \u201cEl Compliance eficaz como causal de irresponsabilidad de las personas jur\u00eddicas\u201d.
\n\u201cBases para un Derecho penal de las m\u00e1quinas\u201d . Columnist for the newspaper La Cr\u00f3nica del Quind\u00edo:
\n\u201cMotivos del Proyecto Hoowarr\u201d.
\n\u201cUna tarea pendiente en Colombia\u201d.
\n\u201cBreve Ojeada al Proyecto Hoowarr sobre una responsabilidad penal de las personas jur\u00eddicas\u201d (Spain) .
\nDirector of the Anuario Corporate Compliance. Grupo editorial Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez.
\nIN \u00c1MBITO JUR\u00cdDICO:<\/strong>
\nInterview in the newspaper \u00c1MBITO JUR\u00cdDICO. \u201c\u00bf Hay que consagrar la responsabilidad penal de las empresas?
\n\u201cLa necesidad en Colombia de castigar penalmente a las empresas \u201d in \u00c1mbito Jur\u00eddico.
\n\u201cEl Compliance program y la responsabilidad penal o administrativa de las personas jur\u00eddicas\u201d, in \u00c1mbito Jur\u00eddico.
\n\u201cEl caso Odebrecth y los partidos pol\u00edticos\u201d, in \u00c1mbito Jur\u00eddico. \u201cPropuesta de ley sobre responsabilidad penal de las personas jur\u00eddicas\u201d, in \u00c1mbito Jur\u00eddico.
\n\u201cLo que el empresario debe saber acerca de un compliance program \u201d, Revista empresarial de Legis. Also published in the newspaper \u00bfEl Por qu\u00e9? of Mexico City. Also in the online magazine Legal Today by Thomson Reuters, Madrid, Spain.
\n\u201cEl fundamento de la responsabilidad administrativa de las personas jur\u00eddicas\u201d, published in the newspaper \u00bfPor qu\u00e9?, Mexico City.
\n\u201cLa responsabilidad penal de las personas jur\u00eddicas, medida para combatir la corrupci\u00f3n\u201d, in the newspaper D\u00cdGAME, Bucaramanga, Santander.
\n\u201cProyecto Hoowarr sobre responsabilidad penal de las personas jur\u00eddicas en Colombia. La medida eficaz o adecuada para combatir la corrupci\u00f3n en nuestro pa\u00eds. In the newspaper \u00bfPor qu\u00e9?, Mexico City.
\n\u201cLa importancia del Compliance penal en Colombia\u201d, newspaper \u00c1mbito Jur\u00eddico by Legis. \u201cLa importancia de los \u00b4Compliance Program\u00b4, in Revista \u00c1mbito Jur\u00eddico Empresarial No. 9, June 2107.
\n\u201cBases para un Derecho penal de las m\u00e1quinas\u201d, in the Mexico City newspaper \u00bfPor qu\u00e9? Also published in the legal newspaper \u00c1mbito Jur\u00eddico by Legis, Bogot\u00e1 DC.<\/p>\n

LECTURES:<\/strong>
\n2016. The administrative liability of legal persons. Introduction to the criminal liability of legal persons in Colombia. April 2016. Hotel Marriot, Santiago de Cali.
\n2018. The need to recognize the criminal liability of legal persons in Colombia as an effective measure to combat corruption. The new profession of Compliance Officer. Lecture at the Universidad Cooperativa, Cali.
\n2018. The criminal liability of legal persons and Compliance in Colombia. The inadequacy of the individual theory of crime to combat corruption. Hotel Intercontinental, Cali, Colombia.
\n2018. Lecture in Guayaquil: The criminal liability of legal persons and the future of criminal law. 29 and 30 March 2019.
\n2018. Colombia and Corporate Criminal Liability. The OECD and its requirements. The idea of a new criminal theory for companies to combat corruption. Presentation of the Hoowarr Project on the criminal liability of legal persons in Colombia, as an effective measure to combat transnational bribery, money laundering and\/or terrorist financing, and environmental crimes. Palacio de Justicia, Armenia, Quind\u00edo.
\n2018. The criminal liability of companies. A mission for Commercial Lawyers too, delivered to the Colegio de abogados Comercialistas de Cali, at the Club Ejecutivos de Cali.
\n2018. Lecture in Bogot\u00e1 DC, at the Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez bookshop. 2018. Lectures at the Universidad Villareal, San Marcos and at the Colegio de abogados de Lima, Peru. The criminal liability of legal persons and Compliance.
\n2018. Lecture at the Federaci\u00f3n de Cannabis del Cauca.
\n2018. Lecture at FANALCA; Cali- Valle del Cauca, on 26 September 2018.
\n2018. Lecture in Cusco, Peru: \u201cThe current state of the question of the criminal liability of legal persons\u201d. 11 and 12 October 2018.
\n2018. Lecture in Santiago de Cali, Universidad del Valle: Is criminal liability of legal persons necessary in Colombia? 10 April.
\n2019. Lecture in Santiago de Cali, 23 and 24 April, on the criminal liability of legal persons.
\n2018. Lecture on the current state of the criminal liability of legal persons and Compliance, at the Corporaci\u00f3n universitaria la Republicana in Bogot\u00e1.
\n2018. Lecture on the criminal liability of legal persons in Medell\u00edn.
\n2019. Lecture in Cartagena, 17 May, on the criminal liability of legal persons.
\n2019. Lecture at UMECIT on the criminal liability of legal persons in Panama City, 26 April.
\n2019. Lecture on the criminal liability of legal persons in Nueva Loja, Ecuador, 28 and 29 May.
\n2019. Lecture on the criminal liability of legal persons in Bogot\u00e1, on 16, 17 and 18 October.<\/p>\n

OTHER INFORMATION OF INTEREST<\/strong>
\n1998 Research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 28 October 1998.
\n2003-2004. Research stay at the universities of Bologna and Modena & Reggio Emilia, Italy, under the supervision of Full Professor Massimo Donini.
\n2004- Guest scientist at the Institut f\u00fcr Kriminologie und Wirtschaftsstrafrecht of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universit\u00e4t Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany). Under the then direction of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Klaus Tiedemann
\n2005. Research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
\n2014. Candidate for Justice of the Honorable Constitutional Court following the departure of Justice Nilson Pinilla.
\n2016. List of Candidates for Attorney General (Fiscal\u00eda General de la Naci\u00f3n).
\n2016. President and Executive Director of the Asociaci\u00f3n colombiana de derecho penal empresarial ASCOLDPEM.
\n2018. Master\u2019s student in Corporate Compliance at EIS Innovative School. Madrid.
\n2018. In training to obtain the CAMS ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING certification, Miami, United States.
\n2018. Member of the Asociaci\u00f3n Franco- Colombiana de juristas.
\n2016. Member of the Fundaci\u00f3n Internacional de Ciencias Penales, based in Barcelona.
\n2018. GENERAL DELEGATE TO THE WORLD ORGANIZATION FOR PEACE OMPP\/WOFP
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