Profiles

NAME: ALFONSO J. ALVAREZ-CALDERON Y.
ADRESS: Av. Santa Cruz No. 937, Miraflores, Lima 18, Perú
TELEPHONE: 9447381 FAX: 4462408
E-MAIL: ajacy-w@amauta.rcp.net.pe

EDUCATION:

Conciliator, 2000, Ministry of Justice, Lima, Peru.
Arbitrator, 1995,Chamber of Commerce of Lima, Lima, Peru.
Magister in Administracion, M.A., 1972.
Graduate School of Business Administration, ESAN, Lima, Peru.
Master in Comparative Jurisprudence, M.C.J., 1971, Inter American Law Institute, New York University, School of Law, New York, U.S.A.
Lawyer, Bachelor at Law, 1970, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

MARY MOUNT UNIVERSITY, 2000, Arlington Virginia Presented a paper on Cyber Ethics in Peru.

PERUVIAN CONSTRUCTION CHAMBER CAPECO, 2000, Lima, Peru Member of the Arbitration and Conciliation Center.

E- TRANSFORMATION CAUCUS PBEC MEETING, 2000, Lima Peru I presented a paper on the Resolutely aspects of doing electronic commerce in Peru.

CONSULATE OF THE REPUBLIC OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO , 2000 - Lima - Peru Consul Ad Honorem.

VII IBEROAMERICAN CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER LAW, 2000, Lima. Peru Delegate for Peru. Gave presentation on electronic commerce legislation and the Peruvian Cibertribunal.

GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE SUMMIT 2000, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Attended by invitation of Government of Malaysia, I presented a paper on the Peruvian Cibertribunal and electronic commerce in Peru.

LAW FIRM NETWORK, 2000 - , Lima-Peru Founding member. A consortium of lawyers and law firms giving legal advice on Computer Law through cyberspace.

PERUVIAN CIBERTRIBUNAL, 1999 - Lima, Peru Chairman. This is an Alternative Dispute Resolution Institution entirely in cyberspace formed by lawyers, arbitrators and conciliators from Peru, Mexico, Venezuela and Spain. I have given lectures and presented papers on alternative dispute resolution online in Geneva, Kuala Lumpur, Hawaii and at several public and private Universities and business associations in Peru. It is currently the only institution in its kind in the world that does arbitration and conciliation online.

INSTITUTO PERUANO DE COMERCIO ELECTRONICO IPCE 1999 - Lima, Peru Founding Member. This is a NGO formed by the Peruvian Government, private enterprises, NGO´s business associations and individuals to promote foreign trade through electronic commerce. I have enacted legislation on electronic signature, electronic agreements and computer crimes.

IMPORTACIONES Y SERVICIOS ESPECIALES S.A. ISE, 1997, Lima-Peru Vice President Trading Company in the Asia Pacific Rim.

PACIFIC BASIN ECONOMIC COUNCIL-PBEC, Peru Committee, 1996 - Lima, Peru Director General. I have participated in the Entrepreneurial Peru-Japan Business Council Meeting in Lima in September 1996, in the Executive Committees in Kauai, Hawaii in September 1996 and in the International General Meeting in Manila in May 1997 and Honolulu, Hawaii in March 2000. I have also participated in a road show to Manila, Bangkok, Hong Kong and Tokyo of PBEC business leaders in June 1997.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF LIMA, 1995, Lima-Peru Arbitrageur of the Center of National and International Arbitration Court.

ESTUDIO ALVAREZ-CALDERON, 1989 - Lima, Peru Private practice in litigation, contracts, commercial law, civil law, torts, family law, international transactions.

INSPECTORATE AMERICA CORPORATION, 1989 - 1992, Lima, Peru Representative for Peru. Supervision of imports and exports. Negotiated with the Customs Office, Free Trade Zone of Tacna, Ministry of Economy, the General Controllership, the Central Reserve Bank and all public sector corporations as well as banks and insurance companies offering the services of the company for price verification and quality and quantity control in imports and exports.

COMPAÑIAS DE INVERSIONES E INMOBILIARIA SAN CRISTOBAL S.A., 1989 - 1990, Lima, Peru Chairman of the Board and CEO. During one year I was responsible for the company in all its business, legal and financial chores until it was acquired by Compañía Ransa S.A. of the Raffo Group.

SINGER & FRIEDLANDER LIMITED, 1988 - 1989, London, England Representative for Latin America. Investment bank specialized in purchase and sale of Latin American debt for investment and privatization's for its customers. During my stay with this bank I traveled to Ecuador and Peru to negotiate purchase and sale of commercial debt in these two countries. I drafted and negotiated swap agreements with European and Arab banks.

ARAB LATIN AMERICAN BANK - ARLABANK, 1979 - 1988, Lima, Peru Joined as Assistant to the Credit Department. After one year was promoted to Assistant Manager and after four years was promoted to Deputy Manager. During my stay at this bank I was the in-house legal adviser on international matters specially in the drafting and negotiation of all direct, syndicated and jumbo loan agreements, bond and certificate of deposit floating rate issues in the international market, renewal of loan agreements, asset swaps, law suits in several parts of the world and liaison with all law firms around the world were the bank had credits. As a credit officer I was responsible for Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and the Arab World. I placed US$300 millions in credits in Venezuela and helped place US$2,000 millions in credits in several parts of the world and, after 1982 I was responsible in all collection procedures to effectively recover more than half of credits placed in Venezuela and swapped loans in other parts of the world. I traveled extensively on bank business to Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United States, Spain, England, and France. Lectured on financial and legal matters in Manama, Bahrain, Montevideo, Uruguay and Lima, Peru on Seminars for Central Banks organized by Arlabank. S.A.

DICSA SOCIEDAD FINANCIERA, 1974 - 1979, Caracas, Venezuela Head of the International Department. I joined the finance company as a credit analyst and two years thereafter was promoted to Head of the International Department. As credit analyst I was responsible for all medium and long term credits throughout Venezuela where the finance company had offices and as their in-house legal adviser I drafted and negotiated the loan agreements and in many cases headed the collections efforts in and out of court. I also drafted and helped place financial bond issues throughout the country. During my stay in Venezuela I started the convalidation of my law degree with the University of Carabobo under the Andres Bello Educational Agreement. I negotiated and obtained short term advance accounts with American and European banks for the finance company to fund its short term requirements.

LA FABRIL S.A., 1971 - 1974, Lima, Peru Attorney, Assistant Finance Department. I joined the company as Analyst to the Cotton and Trading Departments. After one year I joined the Legal Department where I did legal practice in all fields of law advising the group of companies in Lima, Arequipa and Callao. Thereafter, I was invited by the Finance Manager to join his team as Assistant to negotiate advance accounts, payments of dividends and franchises in times of exchange control and all sorts of financial chores for the group of companies that used to form the Bunge Born Group of companies in Peru.

CLEARY GOTTLIEB STEEN & HAMILTON, 1970 - 1971, New York, U.S.A. Associate lawyer. Worked for one year in private legal practice in this prestigious Wall Street International Law Firm as part of my training of my law studies at New York University School of Law.

LANGUAGES: Spanish (Native) English, French and knowledge of Portuguese and Italian.

COMPUTING: Ten years experience in all sorts of hardware and software. Working knowledge of Windows 98, Office 97, and communications systems including IP Telephone. Co-founder of INTERNET-PERU and the radio and telephone bulletin boards of Radio Club Peruano. Extensive use of computers for professional, amateur and communications use.