Vanessa Chávarry
Latin America Guide 2025
Band 2 : Environment
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About
Provided by Vanessa Chávarry
Practice Areas
Vanessa is Partner of the firm, who leads the environmental area, specializing in environmental law and sustainability issues. She has broad experience in environmental law, both in analytical and practical aspects of general and sectorial environmental regulations.
Career
Her professional practice is focused on providing legal advice on environmental and social issues related to all productive sectors with an emphasis on agriculture, industry, transportation, fishing and aquaculture, mining, electricity, among others; both in the defense of administrative sanctioning procedures and in advising on the design and implementation of environmental management strategies for prevention, mitigation, remediation or environmental compensation.
Prior to joining the firm, she worked at the Ombudsman´s Office in environmental and indigenous issues.
Professional Memberships
Callao Bar Association - National Law Institute of Mining, Petroleum and Energy (INDEMIPE) - International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) - Advisory Council of the Environmental Law Team of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (EDERA) in the period 2021 – 2023.
Expert in these Jurisdictions
Peru
Languages Spoken
English and Spanish.
Publications
Legal regulations for the development of extractive activities in Latin America: comparative analysis (Instituto de Ciencias de la Naturaleza, Territorio y Energías Renovables – PUCP, 2015) - Business and Society: an approach to socio-environmental conflicts in mining (Journal No. 6, Administrative Law Circle of the PUCP Law School, 2008) - She has written articles on environmental and mining law in specialized journals and she has prepared comparative legislation studies in such topics. Vanessa has been a speaker at international forums on topics of her expertise.
Education
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute – Center for Conservation and Sustainability
Biodiversity Monitoring and Assessment Program (BMAP)
2018
INCAE Business School
Master in Business Administration (MBA)
2017
INCAE Business School
Sustainability Management Program
2015
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Licensed in Law
2011
Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
Post-Graduate Diploma in Energy Law
2008
Facultad Latinoamerica de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSCO – Argentina)
Diploma in Environmental Conflicts: Planning, Negotiation and Mediation
2008
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Agriculture and Agribusiness
Energy and Utilities
Environmental and Waste
Industrials, Engineering and Manufacturing
Resources and Mining