He has been working in DESC for fifteen years. Between 2001 and 2006, he was coordinator of the Amazon Area of the Center for Economic and Social Rights in Ecuador. Among other initiatives, he coordinated the Observatorio DESC Amazonia, with scope in the Andean-Amazonian countries. Between 2007 and 2013, he worked as a consultant for the Pachamama Foundation, dealing with Indigenous Peoples’ rights. Between 2008 and 2012, he held the position of regional coordinator of the Amazon Legal Network, a collective of lawyers working in the defense of collective rights in the Amazon of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. He has been a lawyer for the Kichwa Peoples of Sarayaku in the case against the Ecuadorian State before the Inter-American Court.
During these years, he has carried out consultancies, publications, research and training on ESCR issues. He has also taught classes on human rights and environmental issues at several universities in Ecuador and has been a visiting professor at universities in Peru and Costa Rica.
He currently teaches at the Law School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador and coordinates the university’s Human Rights Center, where he litigates public interest cases before the national justice system and the Inter-American system.
