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Gonzalo Bernal

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Work Department

Industrials, Manufacturing & Transportation

Position

Partner

Career

Lawyer with a Master in International Trade and Economics at the World Trade Institute, Switzerland, being a specialist in international trade and customs. Gonzalo has a broad experience in advisory, preventive audits and litigation related with sophisticated trade operations, trade facilitation and investment.

His professional expertise includes legal advisory provided to either domestic or international enterprises, specifically related with Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), Regional and Plurilateral Agreements (Andean Community, Pacific Alliance, among others) compliance and WTO law, customs valuation, tariff classification, rules of origin, trade and regulatory barriers (sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical barriers to trade), investment, infrastructure, supply chain management, transport, and trade remedies (dumping, subsidies).

He has a strong expertise with the industrial and manufacturing sector, especially with the food industry and agribusiness.

He has also been involved as an international consultant working at USAID linked with trade facilitation programmes and export competitiveness. Moreover, Gonzalo was an academic assistant of the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) in a Peruvian project, is professor for the Post-Graduate School of International Economic Law of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP) and lecturer of several workshops.

Languages

English, Spanish

Memberships

• Member of the Asociacion Peruana de Derecho Aduanero y Comercio Internacional – APDACI (Peruvian Association of Customs Law and International Trade).
• Member consultant of the XCOM Committee – Foreign Trade and Logistics Committee of the Lima Chamber of Commerce (CCL).

Education

• World Trade Institute (WTI), University of Bern, Switzerland – Master in International Trade and Economics (2011-2012). Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) scholarship winner. Master thesis graded with A.
• Institute of International Economic Law, Academy of WTO Law and Policy – Georgetown University Law Center (2014).
• Summer Academy on Global Food Law & Policy, Cadenabbia, Italy (July 2012) – Diploma Course on Food Law & Policy, WTO law and EU regulation of food.
• Postgraduate School of the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (2008) – Diploma Course on Concessions and Infrastructure Law.
• Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, PUCP (2007) – Law Degree.