René Urueña is a Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia), where he directs the postgraduate program on international business law, and is a Max Planck Fellow in Law. He has published widely on international economic law and global governance;  has been counsel and  an expert witness before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; and served as an adviser of the Selection Committee of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (Colombia).   René has been a Fellow at New York University; a docent at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at the University of Harvard; and a visiting professor at the City University of New York, and at the universities of Tel-Aviv, Utah, and Helsinki. He received his law degree and a postgraduate degree in economics from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), and his LL.M. (laudatur) and Doctorate of Laws (eximia cum laude) from the University of Helsinki.