Javier Franco is a Colombian Attorney -at -Law who graduated from the Externado University in Colombia with a postgraduate degree in Maritime Law from the same University and an LL.M. (distinction) in International Commercial and Maritime Law from the University of Wales Swansea, UK. He is an arbitrator of the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce in the fields of Transport and Commercial Law. He is also a member of the standing young committee of the Comite Maritime International (CMI), a member of the board of the Colombian Association of Maritime Law (ACOLDEMAR) and a member of the Colombian branch of the Iberoamerican Institute of Maritime Law (IIDM).