CMS Rodríguez-Azuero

Human Rights

Tatiana is Partner for Human Rights in the Environmental Law & Sustainability – Human Rights practice area of the Firm. She is a lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, with a graduate degree in Administrative Law from the same university and a Master’s Degree in National Security and Defense from the Colombian Superior War College. She also holds an LLM in International Legal Studies with Certificate in International Human Rights Law from Georgetown University, where she attended as Fulbright and Colfuturo Scholar and she graduated with honors.

Tatiana has more than 20 years’ experience in her practice areas, advising entities in the public sector such as the Ministry of Defense and a legislative unit in the National Senate, acting then as Inspector General Delegate for Human Rights and Ethnic Affairs and for the Preventive Oversight of Civil Service. For the past 7 years, she has advised from her private practice national and international clients in sectors such as extractive, agroindustry, education, and retail, among others, in topics related to due diligence in human rights, both relating to a company’s own operations, and to its value chain.

Academically, Tatiana has been professor in Public International Law for undergraduate studies in the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, and for the past 5 years has taught the module in Business and Human Rights in two master’s degrees of the same university, as well as the joint diploma course between the Javeriana and Tirant Lo Blanch. Tatiana has taught other classes in master’s, graduate, and training courses in topics related to International Law, Human Rights, and International Humanitarian Law in universities such as the Catholic University of Colombia, Andes University, Guías Colombia and the United Nations Global Compact.

-   Present – Partner, CMS Rodríguez-Azuero, Bogotá, Colombia

-   2023 -2026 – Counsel, CMS Rodríguez-Azuero, Bogotá, Colombia

-   2017 – currently – Founding Partner, Director of the Human Rights and International Law Areas, Humane-Biz Project - Manager for United States and Latin America, LH LAW & CONSULTING

-   2020 – 2022 – Business and Human Rights Managing Director and Advisor, THE FREEDOM SEAL GLOBAL (Seattle, EEUU)

-   2018 - Member of the Defense Sector, the Vice-Presidency of the Republic and the Presidential Advisory Office for Human Rights, Government Transition Team.

-   Inspector General's Office (Procuraduría General de La Nación)

-   2013 - 2017 – Inspector General Delegate for the Prevention of Human Rights and Ethnic Affairs.

-   2012 - 2013 – Inspector General Delegate for the Preventive Oversight of Civil Service.

-   2010 - 2012 - Coordinator of International Relations.

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-   2010 - Master of Laws in International Legal Studies – LLM, Georgetown University, Georgetown, Washington D. C.

-   2008 – Master´s Degree in National Security and Defense, Escuela Superior de Guerra, Bogotá, Colombia

-   2004 - Specialist in Administrative Law, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia

-   2003 – Lawyer, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia