He is a lawyer and has a PhD in Politics and Constitutional Studies at University of Alicante (Spain). Full-time professor and director of the Institute of Legal Research of the College of Jurisprudence – University of San Francisco de Quito. He has dozens of publications in indexed magazines, and has been a national and international consultant on issues related to water management and environmental law. He is a member of the World Commission on Environmental Law (CMDA) of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.