Born in 1939. Member of Facio & Cañas since 1964 and partner since 1970. Member of the Costa Rican Bar Association since 1964.
Licenciado en Derecho, Universidad de Costa Rica (1964).

Academic activities:

• Lecturer at a Lex Mundi conference in Quito, Ecuador (2004).
• A participant and a professor in a Course about Commercial Arbitration organized by the Latin American Centre of Commercial Arbitration of the University for International Cooperation (2002).
• A participant in several symposiums and seminars about international arbitration organized by “The London Court of International Arbitration” (LCIA), The Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (FCC), the American Arbitration Association and the Centre for Settlement of Investments Disputes (ICSID), Washington D.C., New York and Paris (1999-2003).
• Lecturer in a seminar about Foreign Investment in Latin America organized by the American Bar Association, Miami, Florida (1991).
• President and Secretary General of the National Legal Conferences (1971 and 1975).
• Member of the AID-Universidad de Costa Rica Program of the reform of law teaching (1967-1968).
• Professor of Commercial Law, School of Law, Universidad de Costa Rica, (1966-1974).
• Lecturer in several seminars and conferences about matters related to Mercantile Law and Arbitration (1964-2004).

Public Offices:

• First Vice President of the Republic of Costa Rica (1994-1998).
• Minister of the Presidency of the Republic of Costa Rica (March 1995- July 1996).
• Coordinator of the Government's Economic Team (July 1996- May 1998).
• Head of the National Liberation Party Legislative Group (1991-1992).
• Member of the Costa Rican Congress (1990-1992)
• Alternate Justice of the Supreme Court (1983-1990).
• Legal Advisor for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (1976-1986).

Other Offices:

• President of Facio & Cañas (1999-2000) (2004- ).
• Member of the Board of Directors of Interfin (2004- ).
• Member of the Board of Directors of Lex Mundi (2003- ).
• President of the Board of Directors of the Costa Rican Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (2002 -2004).
• Member of the Panel of arbitrators of the Centre for Solving Real Estate Disputes (2002- ).
• Legal Advisor to EARTH (1999- ).
• Member of the Panel of Arbitrators and Mediators of the International Centre for Settlement of Investments Disputes, ICSID (1999- ).
• Member of the Institutional Court of the Centre for Conciliation and Arbitration of the Costa Rican Chamber of Commerce, and member of the panel of arbitrators of said Centre (1999- ).
• Member of the Panel of Arbitrators of AMCHAM's International Centre for Conciliation and Arbitration (1999- ).
• Coordinator of the National Committee for the Promotion of Pacific Mechanisms for Solving Conflicts (1996-1998).
• President of the Board of Directors of the Costa Rican Bar Association (1982-1983).
• Delegate of the Costa Rican Government to the conference on the Law of the Sea, Geneva, Switzerland (1975).
• Delegate of the Costa Rican Government to the United Nations General Assembly (1973).
• Member and President of eleven national Arbitration Tribunals under the Centre for Conciliation and Arbitration of the Costa Rican Chamber of Commerce, the Centre for Solving Real Estate Disputes, AMCHAM's International Centre for Conciliation and Arbitration and Ad Hoc Arbitration Tribunal.
• Member and in most cases, President of eleven international Arbitration Tribunals under the International Centre for Settlement of Investments Disputes (ICSID), the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and the Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce.

Languages: Spanish and English

Practice areas: civil law, commercial law, mergers/acquisitions, national arbitration, international arbitration, national mediation of a conflict and international mediation of a conflict.