B.C.L, LL.M., M.B.A., D.C.L. (University of Costa Rica), Professor of environmental law, postgraduate program on environmental, agricultural and of biodiversity law, University of Costa Rica.

Prof Jorge Cabrera is currently a legal adviser of the National Biodiversity Institute (INBio) and international consultant in the area of Intellectual property and biodiversity, biotechnology and biosafety, access to genetic resources and benefit sharing and environmental law. Formerly a tutor of the distance courses on intellectual property of WIPO. He is a member of the Public Interest Intellectual Property Association (PIIPA), a network of IPR lawyers helping developing countries institutions; of the World Union of Agricultural Law Professors (UMAU); the  National Academy of Environmental and Agricultural Law (Vice-president), the National Academy of Environmental Law, and the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law among others. For more than 4 years, he is a member of the National Biodiversity Commission of Costa Rica and negotiator of the CBD on behalf of the Government of Costa Rica, including Head of the Delegation in the First Conference of the Parties (Nassau 1994) and member of the delegation in the COP V (Kenya), VI (Holland),  VII (Malaysia) and VIII (Brazil), IX (Germany) and X (Japan)

Prof Cabrera is a co-chairman of the Expert Panel on Access and Benefit Sharing of the CBD (1999 to 2001) and Chairman of the Sub working Group on IPR and Capacity Building during the II meeting of the Working Group on Access and Benefit Sharing (Bonn). Member of the Technical Expert Group on Certificates of Origin-Legal Provenance-Source and the Technical Expert Group on Concept, Working Terms and Sectoral Approaches, established by the CBD in the context of the International Regimen Negotiations. Co-chair of the contact group on traditional knowledge in the COP X  (in the context of the adoption of the Nagoya Protocol) and Co-chair of  Expert and Technical Group on the development of international mechanisms and instruments to promote compliance with the Nagoya Protocol. Member of the delegation at the WIPO Committee on Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge and at the Megadiverse Like-minded Countries. He is a consultant on IPR, Biotechnology, Biosafety, ABS and environmental law for national and international institutions such as  CBD, UNCTAD, UNITAR, UNEP, FAO, ECLAC, IICA, SICA, CCAD, IPGRI (Biodiversity), CYMMIT, REMERFI, CATIE, University of California, Environmental Law Centre of UICN in Bonn, COSUDE, EU projects, GiZ, CAF, USAID, TNC, WWF, IDB, ICTSD, IISD,  Institute of  Economic Development of the World Bank, World Future Council, etc. He is a member of the Drafter commission of the Biodiversity Law of Costa Rica (1998), drafted the First Biodiversity Law Draft of Nicaragua, of the Draft Access regulations of El Salvador and the policy guidelines on ABS, of the Bhutan  Biodiversity Law of 2003, legal consultant of the EU Project in the Jicatuyo Basin in Honduras, consultant in the drafting of a model law on IPR and Agricultural for the Eastern Caribbean Countries Association, member of the drafting team of the ABS Law for Seychelles, adviser to the National Authority of the Environment of Panamá on the revision of the ABS contract with the Smithsonian Institute, consultant for the improvement of the ABS Law in Chile, member of the consult team drafting the Agrarian Code of Paraguay, consultant  in the process of drafting ABS regulations and ABS negotiations in Dominica, etc.

Drafted the Central American Protocol on ABS, the Draft Central American Protocol on Biosafety and the Model Law on Safety in Biotechnology for Central American Countries. Trainer on ABS for several African Countries, including: Benin, Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana and Nigeria. He is an author to many books and articles published in the area of IPR, ABS, Biosafety, Trade and Environment, including articles published in México, Canada, United States, El Salvador, Colombia, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Spain, Switzerland, France, Japan, Holland, India and UK.

Selected by Time Magazine and CNN as one of the “Latin-American Leaderships for the New  Millennium” (environmentalist) in 1999. Selected as one of the most relevant Cartagineses in 1999 by Cartago Al Dia ( local journal) and one of 40  under 40 of the Financiero ( national paper).

Prof Cabrera has attended and given presentations at numerous national and international seminars. The latter include countries such as the United States, Canada, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, Peru, Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, Panama, Saint Lucia, Belize, Venezuela, Bahamas, Mexico, Argentina, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Ghana, Benin, Botswana, Vietnam, Malaysia, Ecuador, Holland, Colombia, Spain, Honduras, Nigeria, Bolivia, Germany, UK, Southafrica, Japan, Tanzania, Kenya, Finland, Cuba, Lebanon, Chile,  Bhutan, Philippines, Indonesia,  China, Cambodia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Dominica, and Paraguay.