Ecuador | Senior Program Associate, Peter D. Bell Rule of Law, Inter-American Dialogue
Daniel Caballero joined the Inter-American Dialogue in 2023. He currently serves as a Senior Program Associate in the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program.
Before joining the Dialogue, Caballero was the chief law clerk for Justice Daniela Salazar Marín at the Constitutional Court of Ecuador. There, he worked on cases involving critical issues such as migration and asylum, states of emergency, freedom of expression, sexual and reproductive rights, among others. Previously, he was a consultant for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and a researcher for the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE) at the Universidad de Palermo in Argentina. He also served as an attorney for legal services and strategic litigation at Asylum Access Ecuador. Additionally, he was a project manager at the School of Law at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, where he is an adjunct professor teaching Constitutional Law and International Refugee Law.
Caballero holds a juris doctor with a minor in human rights from Universidad San Francisco de Quito’s School of Law, a master’s in constitutional law from Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, and a master of laws in international human rights from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.
He is fluent in Spanish, English, Portuguese, and German.
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