Gregorio Ordóñez Williams (1945 - 2007)
Founder

Born on May 17, 1945, in the City of Panama, Republic of Panama.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Law and Political Sciences by the University of Panama
• Business Administration Program by INCAE Business School
• Courses in Union Education
• Courses in Conciliation, Negotiation and Collective Mediation
• Courses in Industrial Safety and Professional Risks
• Courses in Collective Agreements and Collective Labor Conflicts, all of them under the patronage of the International Labor Organization (OIT)

Labor Experience
Mr. Ordóñez Williams exercised several important positions in Labor affairs, Such as:

• Labor Inspector, Supervisor, Conciliator
• Chief of Conciliation
• Collective Mediator
• Director of Labor Relations
• General Director of Labor and Social Welfare
• Legal Advisor for the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare
• Vice-Ministry of Labor (A.I.)
• Attorney for the Law Firm Mendoza & Associates
• Professor in the Center of Superior Studies (C.E.S.A.) of the Panamanian Association of Business Executives
• Director of the Governmental Plant of Cemento Bayano, Presidential Advisor for Labor Affairs
• President of the Panamanian delegation accompanying workers before the ILO (the banana affair)
• Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare
• Representative of the Republic of Panama before the ILO
• Founding partner of the law firm Ordóñez, Sánchez & Asociados (1975 - currently)

Lectures
Mr. Ordóñez Williams has lectured many seminars and conferences before entities such as:

• Panamanian Association of Business Executives (APEDE)
• Industrials Union of Panama (SIP)
• The Panamanian Banking Association
• The Chambers of Commerce Federation, Chiriqui Land Company, among others.

Member

• Panamanian Association of Business Executives
• Lions Club
• Labor Law

Academy Merits

• Order Manuel Amador Guerrero in the Grade of Great Cross (1994).

Practice Areas

• Labor Law (Individual and Collective Relations)
• Procedural Law, Agreements, concilliation, Mediation, and Labor Arbitration
• Labor collective negotiations

Languages

• Spanish
• English