Juan Pablo Molina Berrizbeitia

Refugees

During my third year of Law School I participated in a Volunteer Program sponsored by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) called “Camp Sadako”. The purpose of Camp Sadako was to raise awareness about the situation of the millions of refugees of the World by sending college and graduate students to live in a Refugee settlement and then share the experience back at their home...

Education

Graduate Studies Harvard Law School Master’s in Law (LL.M.) – Boston, USA 2003 Warwick University Master’s in Law in Development (LL.M.) – Coventry, England 2002 Institute of Social Studies Diploma in International Law and Development – The Hague, The Netherlands, 2001 Undergraduate Studies Catholic University “Andrés Bello” Law Degree (J.D. equivalent) –...

Grassroots Lawyering

My first job after graduating from Law School was quite different from what my peers were embarking on and far off the beaten path. I moved to Guasdualito, a small, rural, very poor, and militarized town at the southern border with Colombia where most of the civilian population was suspect of being or collaborating with the Colombian Guerrilla. I went to Guasdualito as one of the first participants in a new...

Prisons

The first thing I fell in love with at law school (the only thing really) was a student group that volunteered in prisons – VTEP. Volunteer work allowed me to learn how the law really worked. Our main activity was giving prisoners legal aid. The courts’ delay on the vast majority of cases and the lack of information available to the detainee about his or her legal status was – and still is – an wide-spread...

LiD Strategies

I was lucky enough to found a consulting firm and a nonprofit. It has been an extraordinarily fun ride. Being an entrepreneur (business and social) has been a fulfilling experience. It hits me in the right spot. The learning never stops, the dreaming fuels the excitement of every day work. I’m continuously working and learning. It’s just awesome. The consulting firm is Estrategias LiD – LiD stands for Law,...

Todo Legal

Through my Consulting Firm I was able to finance an Access to Justice Project that I had been shaping and planing since I was in Guasdualito. It begun as a Innovation Project of LiD Strategies, and it is now developing into a Foundation in its own right. We are developing a replicable and sustainable model of a decentralized pro-poor sustainable law firm. It is an innovative approach to increasing access to justice...

Graduate Studies

Harvard Law School

Master’s in Law (LL.M.) – Boston, USA 2003

Warwick University

Master’s in Law in Development (LL.M.) – Coventry, England 2002

Institute of Social Studies

Diploma in International Law and Development – The Hague, The Netherlands, 2001

About JP

Juan Pablo Molina Berrizbeitia is a unique professional with outstanding leadership and communication abilities. He is capable of envisioning, designing and sharing a mission to achieve high, uncommon and innovative results. He is a critical and creative thinker. He can build genuine relationships with people from the highest government levels to members of impoverished communities.

You can hire me as a consultant, coach or trainer on the following areas:

Social Entrepreneurship
Technology and Innovation for Development
Law and Development

Refugees

Education

Grassroots Lawyering

Prisons

World Bank

LiD Strategies

Todo Legal

Education

Graduate Studies

Harvard Law School

Warwick University

Institute of Social Studies

About JP

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