Francisco Reyes Villamizar is a former Superintendent of Companies from Colombia and in 2015 was the Chairman of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). He has been an active participant and draftsman of several comprehensive legislative reforms to the Colombian laws of Corporations and Bankruptcy, including the successful law on Simplified Stock Corporations enacted in 2008. He prepared the OAS Model Law on Simplified Corporations. He also presided over the governmental commissions for the amendment of the Colombian Bankruptcy Law and the Law on Secured Transactions. As a consultant to the World Bank, he co-drafted the 2022 Commercial Code of Mozambique.