GUSTAVO PLANCHART MANRIQUE, Born Caracas, Venezuela, September 11, 1925.
Education: Universidad Central de Venezuela, Law Degree and Doctor in Political Science, 1949.
Professional Background: Founder Professor of the Chair of Constitutional Law, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, 1953-1971. Tenure Professor of Constitutional Law, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1953-1981. First Alternate Judge of the Trial Court of the Judicial Circuit of the Federal District and State of Miranda, 1954-1956. Dean of the School of Law, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1965-1968. President of the Council of Universidad Simón Bolívar, 1969-1976. Counselor of the Vatican City State at the International Sea Conference, Caracas, 1977. Chief of the Delegation, with rank of Ambassador, for the Delimitation of Marine and Submarine Areas between Venezuela and Colombia, 1979-1980, and for the Delimitation of Marine and Submarine Areas with France (Guadeloupe and Martinique), 1980. Vice President of the Advisory Commission on Foreign Relations of the Republic of Venezuela, 1979-1983. Alternate Justice of the Political-Administrative Division of the Supreme Court of Justice, 1981-1987. “Professor Emeritus”, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1986. Regular Member of the Venezuelan Academy of Political and Social Science, 1989. Member of the Superior Legal Advisory Council of the Congress of the Republic, since 1991. Member of the Bar Association of the Capital District. Senior Partner of Tinoco, Travieso, Planchart & Núñez, since 1960
Languages: Spanish, English and French.
Practice Areas: Constitutional, Administrative, Business, and Corporate Law.

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