Javier Vergara Fisher

Career

Lawyer, Universidad de Chile. Specialization Program “Environmental Policy Development and Implementation”, organized by the Environmental Law Institute, Washington, DC, United States.

He began his career in the public sector as part of the Special Decontamination Commission for the Metropolitan Region which he joined in 1991. Subsequently he joined the National Environmental Commission (CONAMA) of which he was Technical Secretary, Prosecutor and Director of the Metropolitan Region. In 1998 he joined the law firm “Urrutia y Cia”, initially as an associate and later as partner. In 2005 he formed the law firm VGC Abogados.

He has been a professor of Environmental Law at the Universidad de Chile since 1998.

His career has positioned him as one of the most recognized experts in environmental law in Chile for which he has been distinguished as a Leading Lawyer in the environmental category for the publication of The Legal 500, Leading Individual in Chambers and Partners Latin America for the environmental category and in Who´s Who Legal as an expert in the environment. As well as, in the Best Lawyers directory, he has been highlighted as the best lawyer in the environmental category in several years.

He is a member of the Chilean Bar Association and the Chilean Association of Environmental Law (ACHIDAM).