Luis Fernando Macías Gómez

Environment and Sustainable Development

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.

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)

“El medio ambiente y la naturaleza como instrumentos del arte de gobernar. Una contribución al estudio de la razón de Estado”, Doctorado en Ciencias Políticas, Universidad de París III – Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2016.

“Aspectos jurídicos de la participación ciudadana en la gestión ambiental en Colombia”, Revista Medio Ambiente & Derecho, 2001.

“Acciones populares y medio ambiente: un nuevo paradigma de militancia jurídica”, Revista Medio Ambiente & Derecho, 2002.

“Los países del Este y la transición al mercado…”, Revista de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

“La perestroika: qué hacer con la historia”, Revista de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

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

- Permanent legal advice to Sociedad Aeroportuaria de la Costa - SACSA in the environmental aspects of Cartagena airport operation.

-Counsel to Transmilenio in environmental matters concerning the management of service stations (gas stations) located in various parking areas in Bogota..

-Counsel to Almacenes Éxito in the legal assessment regarding a soil contamination analysis. These technical results were analyzed in the face of a transaction that required to perform a contractual review and the inclusion of the necessary clauses.

Environmental Lawyer of the Year

The Legal 500 Colombia Awards

2026

Environmental Lawyer of the Year

The Legal 500 Colombia Awards

2025