Ana María Mondragón Duque

Ana María Mondragón Duque is a Deputy Judge (Magistrada Auxiliar) at the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in Bogotá, Colombia, in charge of judging the crimes committed in the context of the armed conflict and contributes to guaranteeing the rights to truth, justice, reparation and non-repetition of the victims. She has worked as legal officer at the Independent Consultation and Investigation Mechanism (MICI), which is the accountability mechanism of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), in Washington DC. There she investigated the Bank in cases of non-compliance with social and environmental safeguards where communities had been harmed by development projects financed by the Bank. She has also served as an attorney at the Human Rights and the Environment Program of the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA) and at the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) in Costa Rica and was Visiting Professional at the Inter-American Court on Human Rights (IACHR). Ana María is a Colombian lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School where she was a Fulbright Scholar. At Harvard, she was recipient of the Henigson Human Rights Fellowship and the Gary Bellow Public Service Award.

Companies

• Magistrada Auxiliar (Deputy Judge) Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP) (2018)
• Case Officer at the Independent Consultation and Investigation Mechanism (MICI) Inter-American Development Bank (2016 — 2018)
• Research Assistant Professor Tyler Gianinni, Harvard Human Rights Clinic Harvard Law School (2016 — 2016)
• Attorney AIDA - Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (2013 — 2015)
• Adjunct Lecturer - Business and Human Rights Course Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (2015 — 2015)
• Attorney Center for Justice and International Law - CEJIL (2012 — 2012)
• Visiting Professional Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2012 — 2012)
• Attorney Consultancy “Technical and legal support to mining activities existing in the city of Subachoque" (2011 — 2011)
• Founding Member. Researcher and litigation team. Foundation Spirit of the Constitution of 1991 (E-91) (2010 — 2011)

Education

• Master of Laws (LL.M.) Harvard Law School (2015 — 2016)
• Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (2006 — 2011)
• Trilingual Technologist in Foreign Trade German – Colombian Institute for Technological Education (ICAFT) (2004 — 2006)