Profile
Labor consultant and trial attorney in individual and collective matters, with more than 30 years of experience in consulting to various business chambers and national and multinational companies.
Founding partner and Director – Valenzuela Herrera & Asociados and of the regional law firm Tax & Labor
Director of the Labor for more than 20 years – Coordinating Committee of Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial and Financial Associations of Guatemala (CACIF)
Labor law consultant – International Labor Organization (ILO) and the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB)
Lecturer in Labor Law for over 30 years – In Guatemalan and Latin-American Universities
Delegate of Guatemala – Annual Conference of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland.
Speaker in congresses as well as national and international seminars
Author of labor law articles, reports and books
EDUCACIÓN
PhD Honoris Causa in Humanities – Paulo Freire University, Nicaragua.
Doctorate in Private and Public Pluralist Law – Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain
Specialization postgraduate degree in Labor Law: The new Labor Law challenges – The Universidad of Módena y Reggio Emilia, Italy
Specialization postgraduate degree – Scholar of the Latin American Specialists Program in Laboral Relationships: Democracy, Market and Laboral Relationships – Formation Centre of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Turin, Italy, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha of Spain and the Universitá di Bologna, Italy.
Postgraduate degree in Employment politics and local economic development – , International Centre of Formation Turin, International Labor Organization (ILO), sponsored by Eurosocial and the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, Italy and Spain
Bachelor’s degree in Juridical and Social Sciences, Lawyer and Notary – Rafael Landívar University, Guatemala.
ASSOCIATIONS
Founder and ex-president of the Asociación Guatemalteca de Derecho del Trabajo (ASGUATRA).
Ex-president of the Asociación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Derecho del Trabajo y la Seguridad Social.
Ex–president of the Asociación Iberoamericana de Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social