Gabriel Baum (born in Montevideo on April 9, 1970) is a prominent and renowned Uruguayan lawyer, sportsperson, and academician, he specializes in various legal disciplines and in International Affairs (with experience in international trade, legal cooperation, Diplomatic law). He performed as a national and international basketball referee, between 1990 and 2012. He has been appointed to referee in two world championships.
Since 2012, he has been Manager of the Uruguayan Basketball Federation (FUBB), legal advisor to FIBA, and consultant to international organizations (IDB, UNDP, World Bank).

Biography 
Gabriel Baum was born in Montevideo on April 9, 1970. He defines himself as a "democrat-humanist" and a freethinker.
He received his " Doctor of Law" degree, in 1999 in Uruguay, and later received the postgraduate degree of "Master in Business Administration and Management" (MBA), with emphasis in International law and International Affairs.

He also completed a specialist degree in "Human Rights and Access to Justice", issued by the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights.
He also specialized in International Affairs and International Cooperation. He was appointed by competition as lawyer of the International Affairs Department of the State University of the Republic ("Udelar").

As a lawyer, he served as Legal Advisor at the Supreme Court of Justice of Uruguay (1999, and then in 2015); he was also hired by different international organizations as legal consultant in various projects (UN, UNDP, IDB).

He also served as a legal advisor to the International Basketball Federation (FIBA).

Since 2001, Dr. Gabriel Baum has been a lecturer at the University of the Republic and at private universities. In 2009, he promoted the approval and inclusion in the curriculum of the first Uruguayan Chair of "Sports Law" at the Law School of the University of Uruguay, where he was appointed full professor, a position he has held uninterruptedly since its establishment until the present.

He also set up the Interdisciplinary Network "Sports, Law and Society", promoting the values of sports, linking the University with the Civil Society. The objective of the Network (integrated by a wide majority of Uruguayan Faculties) is to share in an interdisciplinary way the education in values promoted by Sport and to transmit them to Society, following the directives of the "Millennium Development Goals" (MDG) of the UN and the UNDP.
In 2011 he was appointed by public competition as Academic Coordinator of the Postgraduate and Master's Degree in "Management, Economics and Law of Sport", a dual degree program carried out by the University of the Republic (Uruguay) and the University of Limoges (France). 

He has been invited by several American and European universities as guest lecturer.

Since his beginnings in 1990 as national referee, until his retirement in 2012 as FIBA international referee, he has been appointed in many national and international matches and events (2006 and 2010 World Championships, Uruguayan League finals, South American League finals, League of the Americas finals, European Championship in Belgrade).

During his last five years as a referee, he was awarded as the best Uruguayan referee.
He retired as an international referee in 2012, when he was promoted as Manager of the Uruguayan Basketball Federation ("FUBB").

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Uruguayan lawyers
University of the Republic (Uruguay) alumni
Uruguayan football referees

1970 births
Living people