Luis Fernando Macías

Luis Fernando Macías

/Partner

Colombia

Partner at PPU expert in Environment and Sustainable Development. He has more than 25 years of experience in Environmental Law, mainly in litigation and sanctioning processes, compliance and legal strategy. He advises important national companies and multinationals in complex environmental business and has been a consultant for many international organisms. He is also an Ecuadorian lawyer due to the homologation of diplomas. The principal international directories rank him as a tier 1 lawyer.

Cita

Luis Fernando Macías has a 360-degree vision of environmental standards in the businesses he advises, making his counsel truly comprehensive. He also offers a high level of client service and sophistication".

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

Education

Doctorate in Political Studies

University of Paris III – Universidad Externado de Colombia

2016

Ecuadorian Lawyer (Degree Equivalency)

Universidad San Francisco de Quito

2010

Master's in Doctrines and Political Philosophy

University of Paris I. Sorbonne

1991

Master's in Latin American Political Science

Institut des Hautes Etudes D’Amerique Latine (IHEAL), Paris III

1991

Lawyer

Universidad Externado de Colombia

1986

Languages

English / Spanish / French

Work Experience

Partner

Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría

2019 - Currently

Founding Partner

Macías Gómez & Asociados Abogados

1997 - 2018

Litigation Attorney in Public Law, Civil Law, and Environmental Law

Particular

1987 - A la fecha

Individual Consultant for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

ONUDC

2020

First Head of the Legal Office

Ministry of the Environment

1994 - 1997

Acting Secretary General

Ministry of the Environment

1996

Memberships

State Adjudicator

2019 – Currently

Member of the drafting group for the Global Pact for the Environment project

2018

Member of the Board of Directors of the Colombo-Ecuadorian Chamber of Industry, Commerce, and Integration

2014 - 2018

Vice President of the Institute for Sustainable Development, QUINAXI

1997 - 2015

President of the Colombian Institute of Environmental Law and Sustainable Development

1997 – Currently

Arbitrator at the Arbitration and Conciliation Center, Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá

Member of the French Society for Environmental Law (Société Française pour le Droit de l'Environnement)

Member as an expert of the Environmental Legislation Review Commission

1997

Academic and Teaching Activities

Universidad de Los Andes, Universidad Externado de Colombia y Universidad del Rosario, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla)

Professor

1987 – 2016