Giovanny Vega-Barbosa

Counsel, Colombia’s National Agency for Legal Defence of the State

Giovanny Vega-Barbosa is an expert counsel at Colombia’s National Agency for Legal Defence of the State. He is a lawyer from the University of Rosario in Colombia, with an LLM from University College London (Chevening scholar). Before joining the investment arbitration group at Colombia’s National Agency for Legal Defence of the State, he served in several capacities at the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including as legal adviser of the Treaty Section and as chief of the International Legal Advisory Section. Giovanny has also advised the Colombian government and Colombian entities in proceedings before the International Court of Justice, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and commercial arbitration tribunals. He teaches public international law at the National University of Colombia and the University of La Sabana in Colombia. He has also published in the field of international human rights law, the law of the sea and international adjudication.