Pablo Morales Andrade

Practice Areas

Dispute resolution, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, conflict resolution, political risk analysis and management, investment law, strategic sectors, consulting, competition law, and real estate law.

Career

He is a lawyer and Bachelor of Liberal Arts Cum Laude from the San Francisco de Quito University. He holds a postgraduate degree in Tax Law and another in Procedural Law from the Andean University Simón Bolívar of Ecuador. He completed his master’s degree in Economic Regulation of Strategic Sectors and Competition Law at the University of Bonn, Germany.

As an Excellence Scholar of SENESCYT, he obtained a master’s degree in business law from the University of Berkeley - California.

He has a degree in Governance and Public Policy from the IDE Business School Quito and the University of Development in Chile.

He is a certified implementer of ISO 37001 Anti-Bribery standards, PECB.

He holds a Diploma in Technologies for Innovating the Public Sector from Southern Affairs, Argentina.

He is a PhD candidate in Ibero-American Administrative Law from the University of La Coruña, Spain.

He is the co-founder of the first Civic Lab in Ecuador, TinkuLAB. Space from where he develops his pro bono practice with an environmental, sustainability and governance approach.

Professional Memberships

• Member of the Institute for Social and Administrative Studies (IDEAS).

• Member of the Ibero-American Forum of Administrative Law (FIDA).

• IBA Member

Publications

His research is focused on the Ecuadorian energy transition.

Publications:

- The Regulation and Policy of Latin American Energy Transitions. The Ecuadorian energy matrix: from a fossil-fuel dependency to a renewable production. L.N.G. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Ed. Elsevier, Brazilian Institute of Energy Law Studies (2020).

- Energy Law in Latin America (Volume I). The economic regulatory regime of the Ecuadorian electricity sector. L.F.M.C. (Ed.) Bogotá, Colombia: Externado University of Colombia (2017).

- The Analysis and Current Affairs of Administrative Law. Economic regulation and essential facilities. MMT (Ed.). Quito, Ecuador: Simón Bolívar Andean University (2015).

- Regional Integration Observer Vol.5 No.3. Regulation in the Ecuadorian Electricity Sector. MV (Ed.) Bonn, Germany: Universität Bonn - Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (2011).