Iván Páez

Iván Páez

/Director

Colombia

Director of the Environment and Sustainable Development team. His professional practice focuses on environmental law in public and private field and environmental licensing processes advising companies in the infrastructure, energy, oil, mining, and agro-industry sectors. He has relevant experience designing legal strategies for litigation and environmental sanctioning processes, and in the judicial and administrative representation of national and international companies.

He led for more than 8 years the group of litigation and environmental sanctioning processes of an important legal firm in Colombia.

Cita

Iván Páez is a great lawyer, with very good knowledge in environmental, procedural and administrative matters".

Energy and Natural Resources: Environment, Chambers and Partners, Latin America, 2026.

Education

Master's Candidate

Universidad del Rosario

2009

Postgraduate Degree in Environmental Law

Universidad del Rosario

2007

Postgraduate Degree in Administrative Law

Universidad del Rosario

2006

Lawyer

Universidad del Rosario

2005

Languages

English / Spanish

Work Experience

Director Environmental Area

Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría

2024 - Currently

Principal Associate

Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría

2019 - 2023

Legal Director

Macías Gómez & Asociados Abogados

2013 - 2019

Coordinator of Sanctioning Litigation

Macías Gómez & Asociados Abogados

2011 - 2013

Lawyer

Macías Gómez & Asociados Abogados

2010 - 2011

Junior Researcher – Public Law Research Group

Universidad del Rosario

2009

Consultant: Regional Project on Congestion of the Contentious Jurisdiction

Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo– PNUD

2009

Research Assistant: Study on the Congestion of Administrative Courts in Bogotá and the Administrative Tribunal of Cundinamarca

Universidad del Rosario

2009

Lawyer, Human Rights Research Group – Environmental Law and Ethnic Groups for the Indigenous Special Jurisdiction Project

Universidad del Rosario

2008 - 2009

Lawyer, General Secretariat for Environmental and Administrative Affairs

Jardín Botánico José Celestino Mutis

2008

Lawyer, General Secretariat for Environmental Affairs

Secretaria Distrital de Ambiente

2007 - 2008

Lawyer, Legal Sub-Directorate

Departamento Técnico Administrativo del Medio Ambiente DAMA

2006 - 2007

Lawyer

Centro de Investigación de las Telecomunicaciones – CINTEL

2006

Head of the Notifications Subdivision

Contraloría General de la República – Delegada para Investigaciones, Juicios Fiscales y Jurisdicción Coactiva

2005 - 2006

Member of the Public Actions Group

Colegio Nuestra Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario

2004

Research Assistant, Human Rights Group

Colegio Nuestra Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario

2004

Legal Assistant

Consejo de Estado – Secretaría General

2003

Memberships

Colombian Institute of Environmental Law

Academic and Teaching Activities

Universidad del Rosario

Professor, Postgraduate Program in Environmental Law, Chair of Air Legal Regime

2008 - Currently

Universidad del Rosario

Professor, Chair of Political Constitution and Civic Instruction

2010 - 2012

Universidad del Rosario

Professor, Chair of Constitutional and State Theory

2009 - 2012

Universidad del Rosario

Professor, Chair of Business Law

2009 - 2013

Universidad del Rosario

Professor, Postgraduate Program in Environmental Law, Chair of Waste and Discharge Regime

2008 - 2015