Juan Carlos Botero
Juan Carlos Botero Navia is a Colombian lawyer and researcher, who served as Executive Director of the World Justice Project in Washington, DC and as co-author of its "WJP Rule of Law Index" and "Open Government Index". International institutional indicators. At the World Justice Project, Botero has led the development of the methodology, piloting, and implementation of the WJP Rule of Law Index for the past five years. This work on "leximetrics" was controversial due to the findings, and suspect methodology, which purported to show that effective labour law damaged economic productivity. More detailed work has  been carried out at the Cambridge Judge Business School found the opposite. His previous experience as a researcher at Yale University and the World Bank focused on developing indicators to measure the performances of legal and judicial institutions in countries around the world. Botero is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Rule of Law, currently serving as a member of the Global Agenda Council on Justice, and is a member of the advisory boards for Citizens for Justice Malawi and the Hague Journal on the "Rule of Law". Colombian government. Botero has served  the Colombian government in many capacities, including as Chief International Legal Counsel of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism; international trade negotiator and chief counsel of the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement; and Director of the Colombian Government Trade Bureau in Washington D.C. He also served as member of the Advisory Board of the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce and as Judicial Clerk for Justice Carlos Gaviria Diaz, at the Constitutional Court. Academic career. A national of Colombia, Botero holds a law degree from Universidad de los Andes, a Master of Law from Harvard University and a Doctor of  Juridical Science (SJD) from Georgetown University. He has taught legal theory and comparative law at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia and Universidad Privada Boliviana in Bolivia. He also served as Director of the Instituto de Ciencia Politica in Colombia. His academic publications have focused on the areas of rule of law, labor regulation, child labor, and judicial reform. He is a member of the bars of Colombia and New York state.