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High School Management

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Greenacres, FL
Posted:
August 13, 2014

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RESUMÉ – MARÍA C. BOSCH

National and citizen of Uruguay

Current U.S. Greencard holder

+541-***-****

+598*-*******

(I) ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

(A) University

****- ****** ** *** - ******sidad Católica del Uruguay “Dámaso

Larrañaga”, Av. 8 de Octubre 2738, Montevideo, Uruguay. Graduate -

Solicitor of Law – 4-year Bachelor in Law enabling me to practice Law in

Uruguay.

2013- University of Oregon School of Law - Master in Law in Environmental

and Natural Resources Law. Graduated in December, 2013.

2013- New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies -

English/Spanish/English Translation Master Degree Candidate -

Expected date of graduation: Mid-2014

Additional university activities:

2006 – Legal English Course Certificate – Universidad Católica del

Uruguay.

2003 – Participant, Academic Exchange Program, Universidad Católica

del Uruguay Law School, delivered at the Legal Science Center of the

Universidad do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

2000 – Second Public Law International Seminar on Rule of Law,

delivered at the Universidad Católica del Uruguay.

25th-26th October, 2004 – Democratic Governance in the MERCOSUR,

Universidad Católica del Uruguay.

30th-31st August, 2004 - “Legal System Development and

Implementation” seminar, Universidad Católica del Uruguay.

August and September, 2004 – Cycle on “Civil Law Update”,

Universidad Católica del Uruguay

2005 - Constitutional Law Seminar, a joint effort by the Municipal

Government of Montevideo and the German Konrad Adenauer

Foundation

July 15th, 2007 – Workshop on Empowering Women for Global

Development, sponsored by Americans for Informed Democracy (AID),

Washington, DC, John Hopkins SAIS.

July, 2007 - OAS Training Workshop – “Youth and Democracy:

Democratic Institutions, Values and Practices”, Washington, DC

August 1st, 2007 –Transatlantic Approaches to International Law Summit,

held at the Atlantic Council, Washington, DC

(B) Secondary Level

1997.1999 Clara Jackson de Heber High School – (private licensed institute)- Avda. Luis

Alberto de Herrera 4142, Montevideo, Uruguay

1994.1996 Inmaculada Concepción High School (private licensed institute), Martín

García 1325, Montevideo, Uruguay

Undergraduate GPA: MB+

(C) Primary Level

1992.1994 Inmaculada Concepción School - Montevideo

1998.1991 St. Ann’s Academy, 4404 Wisconsin Ave., NW, 20016 - Washington, D.C.,

USA

Courses Language: English

1998.1991 Escuela Argentina de Washington, 9029 Bradley Blvd Potomac, MD 20854,

USA (a school sponsored by the Embassy of Argentina)

Courses Language: Spanish. (Parallel courses on Spanish, Plate River

and Latin American History and Culture).

(II) LANGUAGE SKILLS

(A) ENGLISH LANGUAGE

I graduated in all of the following senior courses offered by the Instituto Cultural Anglo-

Uruguayo, the official representative in Uruguay of Cambridge University, UK.

BASIC ENGLISH CERTIFICATE. Grade: Excellent. November, 1995.

Cambridge University Examination, United Kingdom.

CERTIFICATE OF PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH. Certificate, Grade C.

December, 1997. Cambridge University Examination.

TRANSLATION COURSE 2 – Senior English/Spanish Translation Course –

November, 1999. Cambridge University Examination; Grade: “A”.

BUSINESS ENGLISH CERTIFICATE 2. Senior Commercial English Course.

Grade: A (Excellent). November, 1998. Cambridge University Examination.

HIGHER CERTIFICATE OF ADVANCED ENGLISH STUDIES – Advanced

English Studies Program, Instituto Cultural Anglo-Uruguayo, November, 1996.

BUSINESS ENGLISH CERTIFICATE 3 (BEC-3), 2006

ANGLO CERTIFICATE IN TTC (Teacher Training Course), 2006

2006 – Legal English Course Certificate – Universidad Católica del Uruguay, 2006.

Senior teaching positions at the Instituto Cultural Anglo-Uruguayo (retainer at the Institute

Downtown Montevideo Center). - November 9th, 2006 – Certificate of Participation Anglo

Institute Seminar on English Grammar Teaching for English Professors.

ENGLISH CONVERSATION COURSE Certificate, Uruguay- U.S.A. Cultural Alliance–

1993.-

- 2 December, 2011 – TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) examination

approved, Total score: 103 - Registration Number: 0000000013628491

1993.2003 GERMAN LANGUAGE

1993.2004 Humboldt Courses completed, German High School, Montevideo.

Goethe-Institut Montevideo. 5th Year successfully completed.

2004.2005

1993- 2004 OTHER LANGUAGES

Two years of Italian and three years of French.

(III) WORK EXPERIENCE

Intern (2006-2007), and subsequently staff member (2007-2010) of the UNESCO/OAS

International Hydrological Programme (IHP-LAC) in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Coordinator and researcher for PccP (From Potential Conflict to Cooperation Potential),

the leading initiative of IHP/LAC, on resolution of international water conflicts, and

Translator, from Spanish into English and vice versa, of the whole range of HIP/LAC

documents. My translations into English included the Manual for Facilitators of the

UNESCO-IHP WET Program, Water and Education for the Americas and the Caribbean,

a book being used in the WET program throughout the Hemisphere, as well as “Legal and

Institutional Framework in the Management of the Transboundary Aquifers in the

Americas” ("Marco Legal e Institucional en la Gestión de los Sistemas Acuiferos

Transfronterizos en las Americas"), a resource book for worldwide distribution for the

International Shared Aquifer Resource Management (ISARM) Americas Program. The

book deals with transboundary water bodies, and involves International and National Law

and Natural Sciences concepts and terminology which are relevant from the legal and

diplomatic standpoints. I also translated the follow-up Second Book of the aquifer series,

and started the translation of Part III.

Organization of American States (OAS) – Intern, Department of Sustainable

Development (DSD) of the OAS in Washington, DC (July-August, 2007), for which I was

recommended by my University’s faculty. DSD/OAS is responsible for Hemispheric OAS

environmental progrms, including international aid to countries for hazardous chemical

substances and other pollutants’ control legislation; drafting of common customs codes to

prevent illegal trade, promote adequate labelling of hazardous substances, etc. As part of

such Internship I made a presentation for the whole Department of Sustainable

Development and experts of the Legal Department of the OAS on Replication In Central

America Of Mercosur Achievements In Management Of Traded Hazardous Substances . The

full text and slide presentation of my work, which covers 3 volumes and I also translated

from my original English into Spanish, is available in the OAS website:

www.oas.org/dsd/Quimicos/presentacionTradeToxic.pdf

www.oas.org/dsd/Quimicos/Volume%20I%20_1_.pdf

http://www.oas.org/dsd/Quimicos/Default.htm

Such Internship was followed by an ongoing Contract as a paid Consultant for the OAS

Department of Sustainable Development. In such context I was the Rapporteur for the

Regional Workshop, Sound Management of Chemical Substances, held in Managua,

Nicaragua, 3-5 October, 2007 with the highest regional officers and experts of

Environmental and Health Ministries in attendance. My presentation in the workshop is

available in the OAS website, www.oas.org/dsd/Documents/INFORME

%20RELATORÍA.pdf www.oas.org/dsd/Quimicos/Documents/ARCHIVO

%201%20-%20ACTAS.pdf

Retained by the OAS Department of Sustainable Development (DSD/OAS) for an

additional Consultancy whose output was a paper on Integration of gender analysis into

management plans, and developing a public information component to support gender

equality: Development of information and data disaggregation on gender-related issues

concerning use of chemicals and agro-chemical; risk level assessment based on relevance of

gender for key sectors (notably agriculture).

2009 – Selected by the UNESCO Center for Water Law, Policy and Science of Dundee

University (Scotland, UK), for a presentation on Water Regime Constitutionalization in

Uruguay (the 2004 Constitutional Water Resources and Sanitation Reform in Uruguay,

named by UNESCO Courier (ISSN 1993-8616) as “a world first” in terms of Water Rights,

Policies and State involvement in water and sanitation services.

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/water/news/waterutilities.php

6-24 July, 2009 – Certificate of Participation, UNESCO-IHE Course on Public-Private

Partnerships in the Water Sector, in Delft, The Netherlands, delivered by the Institute for

Water Education (http://www.unesco-ihe.org/Education/Short-courses/Regular-short-

courses/Public-Private-Partnerships-in-the-Water-Sector ).

16-27 August, 2010 – Certificate – Summer Academy – International Law in a Changing

World – Universität Heidelberg, Germany, and CEDEP, Paraguay – Asuncion, Paraguay.

August, 2013: OAS Internship at the Language Services Department of the Organization

in Washington, DC, where I translated from English into Spanish, and vice versa, the

whole range of OAS documents, and revised translations from the two other official

languages of the OAS (French and Portuguese).

-Professor of English, Instituto Cultural Anglo-Uruguayo (please see above)

-2012: Researcher and English-into-Spanish and Spanish-into-English Translator, Global

Water for Sustainability (GLOWS) Program, USAID and Florida International University,

Miami, FL 33199

-2014 (current position) –Temporary employee, Global Water for Sustainability Program,

Miami, FL

-1999-2003 - Volunteer teaching work for disadvantaged neighborhoods in Montevideo.

(IV) MULTILINGUAL/MULTILANGUAGE CONTEXT EXPERIENCE

-Lived and attended school in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. for over eight years under a G-4

U.S. visa, and Master in Law grade achieved in Oregon University School of Law

- Academic tour of Germany with the German School, Montevideo

-Academic University Exchange in Brazil

- Professional Consultancies for the Organization of American States in Washington, DC

and Montevideo, Uruguay

- Work experience for international development programs, including IHP/LAC (Regional

Office in Montevideo) and –currently- GLOWS (in Miami, FL)

(VIII) SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS, PAPERS

- “Consideraciones sobre el estado de desarrollo jurídico de los países de las Américas en

materia de aguas a la luz de sus respuestas al cuestionario del Programa ISARM”

(“Considerations on the Legal Development of the countries of the Americas in terms of

Water Resources in the light of their responses to the ISARM Programme

Questionnaire”), Montevideo, Uruguay, 2007

- Replication In Central America Of Mercosur Achievements In Terms Of Management Of

Traded Hazardous Substances, and its Spanish version – Paper presented to the OAS

Department of Sustainable Development on August 1, 2007. Published by the OAS in

Internet.

-Rapporteurship of Managua Workshop on Sound Management of Chemical Substances,

also published in the OAS Website.

- Rapporteurship for the Regional Forum of the Americas held in Montevideo, Uruguay,

under the auspices of the Regional Office of the UNESCO International Hydrological

Programme (IHP) in September, 2008, in preparation of the 5th World Water Forum to be

held in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2009.

-Water regime constitutionalization in Uruguay- paper selected for presentation at

Conference on Water Utilities and Law: Current Trends and Development by UNESCO

Center on Water Law, Policy and Science (United Kingdom)

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/water/news/waterutilities.php

- 2013: Helped update treatise on “Human Rights and the Environment” by Svitlana

Kravchenko and John E. Bonine, as requested by the latter, Director, Environmental and

Natural Resources Program, University of Oregon School of Law, for a new edition of such

book, Carolina Academic Press, ISBN 13: 978-1-59460-413-3

- Donoso, María C., and Bosch, María, 2014, Integrated Water Resources Management in

Latin America and the Caribbean.

- Bosch, María, and Donoso, María C., 2014, Environmental Provisions in the Constitutions

of Uruguay and Argentina compared.

(VII) REFERENCES

1) Prof. John E. Bonine, Director, Environmental and Natural Resources Law,

University of Oregon School of Law. 1515 Agate St., Eugene, OR 97403, USA. Tel.

Nos. 541-***-**** and 541-***-****. Email: *******@**.***

2) Dr. Eng. María C. Donoso, Director, Global Water for Sustainability Program,

3000 NE 151 St., ACI-267, North Miami, FL 33145, U.S.A. 305-***-****;

305-***-****. Emails: ********@***.*** (Former IHP –LAC/Director)\

3) Michela Miletto

Deputy Coordinador, U.N. World Water Assessment Programme

Division of Water Sciences, UNESCO

Villa La Colombella - Località di Colombella Alta

06134 Colombella, Perugia,Italy

Tel.:+39-075-***-**-**

********@******.***

4) Commissioner Dr. Scott Vaughan

Canadá’s Comission of the Environment

CD Howe Bldg., 240 Rue Sparks

Tour Ouest, Ottawa, Canadá K1A0G6

Tel. 613-***-**** ext. 6400

5) Prof. Dr. Ricardo Gorosito Zuluaga

Head, Chair of Environmental Law and Policy, Catholic University of Uruguay

School of Law,

Of. 517 Cerrito 503, Montevideo, Uruguay

Fax +598*-*******

María C. BOSCH 2014



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