Emil Arguelles | |
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Speaker of the House of Representatives of Belize | |
In office 14 March 2008 –3 February 2012 | |
Prime Minister | Dean Barrow |
Preceded by | Elizabeth Zabaneh |
Succeeded by | Michael Peyrefitte |
Personal details | |
Born | 1972 |
Nationality | Belizean |
Political party | United Democratic Party (Belize) |
Emil Arguelles (born July 4,1972) is a Belizean attorney by trade. He was the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Belize from March 2008 to February 2012. [1] [2] He has also been a Member of the Executive Board of the Bar Association of Belize,a Councillor of the Board of the Belize Chamber of Commerce &Industry and a Member of the Belize City Council Trade Licensing Board. He was also appointed as Honorary Consul of the Republic of Poland in Belize. [3]
Arguelles attended St. John’s College in Belize and Marquette University in Milwaukee,WI,USA (1993);University of the West Indies,Cave Hill,Barbados,(LL.B (Hons),1996);Norman Manley Law School,Mona,Kingston,Jamaica (Certificate of Legal Education,1998).
Arguelles is presently the managing attorney of Arguelles &Company LLC and specializes in Corporate Law;Intellectual Property;Real Estate and Foreign Investment. [4] He is an active member of several associations:Belize Bar Association;International Bar Association (IBA);UK Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP);International Tax Planning Association (ITPA);Belize Offshore Practitioners Association (BOPA);International Trademark Association (INTA);Interamerican Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI);Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO);MARQUES;Association of Real Estate Brokers of Belize (AREBB). On the 13th January,2009,Emil Arguelles was presented with the Guatemalan Presidential Medal by the President of Guatemala,H.E. Alvaro Colom Caballeros. [5] [6]
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