Daniel Dorado is a student of the 2024-2025 LL.M. in National and Global Health Law and the 2024-2025 Belén Ríos Scholar. Dorado is originally from Colombia.
His interests include the intersection of health, human rights, intellectual property, artificial intelligence, noncommunicable diseases, corporate accountability, and various forms of liability.
Before enrolling at Georgetown Law, he worked as the director of policy organizing and tobacco campaign at Corporate Accountability, a nongovernmental organization challenging transnational corporations. He also worked with the Court of Justice of the Andean Community, the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court, and the Colombian National Superintendence of Health.
Currently, Dorado serves in various roles, including as a member of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) expert group on liability, co-regional coordinator for the Global Alliance for Tobacco Control in Latin America and the Caribbean, vice president of the Ecuadorian Tobacco Control Interinstitutional Committee, and member of the Cancer Research UK – International Prevention Advisory Group. He is engaged in multilateral processes, such as the WHO FCTC, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the pandemic treaty, and the plastic treaty.
His Master’s in Law thesis on “Compulsory Licensing of Medicines and the Right to Health in the Andean Community” was published and awarded honors. Dorado has an extensive academic background with publications in various academic outlets.
Dorado holds a law degree from Javeriana University-Colombia and a Master in Law with a focus in constitutional law from Simon Bolivar Andean University-Ecuador, with additional specializations and certifications in other legal fields (Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer, among others).