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Luis Fernando Macías Gómez. Lawyer Universidad Externado de Colombia, Ecuadorian lawyer by homologation of degrees, Phd in political science Universidad Externado de Colombia - University of Paris III, Master’s in political philosophy Paris I, Master’s in study of Latin American societies option political science Instituto de Altos Estudios de América Latina (IHEAL) - Paris III, Interactive Master in environmental law from the University of the Basque Country. He has practiced law since 1987 and environmental law since 1993; he served as Head of the Legal Office of the Ministry of the Environment (1994-1997), and was also Secretary General in charge of the same Ministry. He founded the firm Macías Gómez & Asociados Abogados, the first firm in Colombia to specialise in corporate environmental law. Currently he is a partner of PPU Colombia after integration with this firm in 2019, and is responsible for the environmental area. Since 1987 he has been a professor at various national and international universities. In 1997 he was appointed member of the Commission for the Review of Environmental Legislation created by Law 99 of 1993. In 2007 he was appointed as an expert member of the advisory group on environmental law of the Department of Sustainable Development of the OAS, an appointment that lasted several years. He was selected by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development as an expert to be part of the group formed under the tutela order T 445/16. He was part of the group of jurists, invited by the French Constitutional Council, who contributed to the drafting of a new global pact for the environment. He is a co-judge of the Fourth Section of the Council of State, President of the Colombian Institute of Environmental Law and Sustainable Development, President of the Environmental Commission of the International Union of Lawyers (UIA). He has published books on environmental law and political philosophy, as well as several articles in national and foreign journals. He has been a lecturer at various conferences in the country and abroad. He is a Member of the French Society of Environmental Law.