Professor of Public Law at Javeriana University in Bogotá, Colombia. He holds a Ph.D. in Law (2019) and an LL.M. (2013) from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. He has been a visiting researcher at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He is also the founder of the democratic innovation laboratory ideemos.org, where he has coordinated some of the first deliberations in Latin America using random citizen selection. He currently leads the Bogotá’s Democratic Innovation Program, 2024-2027, the first publicly funded program of deliberative democracy and democratic innovations in Latin America. iDeemos is one of five Latin American organizations leading the Resurgentes project, which involves conducting four climate assemblies across Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, and Argentina. He designed the model of the Itinerant Citizens’ Assembly, the first model from the Global South to be recognized as an institutionalization alternative by the OECD in its report “Eight ways to institutionalize deliberative democracy.” He participated as a convener of the Spanish-speaking cluster at the Global Assembly on the Climate Crisis in 2021. He also leads, alongside Democracy R&D, the global project “The New Frontiers of Deliberative Democracy,” sponsored by the National Endowment for Democracy. Other democratic innovation projects in which he has participated include the Mini-Public on Social Dialogue of the General Procurator’s Office (Colombia), 2020 and the Youth Citizens’ Assembly (Colombia), 2020. He is a member of the advisory board of Democracy Next, based in The Hague. As part of his academic career, he has extensively published on democratic theory. His books include “El sistema representativo” and two edited volumes of collected essays by Jane Mansbridge in Spanish. He writes a monthly column in El País on democracy topics.
