Pedro Ignacio Bernal Forero
Economic Law Lecturer
Professional networks
Asociacin Colombiana de Investigadores Urbano-Regionales-ACIUR (founding member, 1993)
Studies:
Economist, Universidad Externado de Colombia (1986); Diploma of Advanced Studies (D.E.A.) in Urban Policies and Land Management, Institut d’Urbanisme de Paris – Université de Paris XII (1994); Master’s Degree in the Analysis of Contemporary Political, Economic and International Problems, under the agreement between Universidad Externado de Colombia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (2000); International Diploma in the Economic Analysis of Law. Department of Economic Law, Faculty of Law, Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2001.
Professional experience:
Researcher in the Project of Government Policies in Public Services in Colombia. Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular (CINEP), Bogotá, March 1988 to August 1995; Advisor to the Vice-Ministry of Housing, Potable Water and Urban Development, Ministry of Economic Development, Bogotá, May 1995 to February 1996; Head of the Division of Housing and Municipal Public Services. National Planning Department (DNP), Bogotá, February to October 1996; Contract for the provision of professional services No. 038/2006 with the Technical Administrative Department of the Environment – DAMA (now the District Secretariat for the Environment) as a specialist in the monitoring and control of economic and financial aspects in the framework of the Bogotá River Decontamination Project. Bogotá, 1 February 2006 to 31 January 2007.
Academic experience:
Professor and researcher, Department of Economic Law, Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2001-2002; Faculty of Economics, Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2003-2019
Areas of research
The regulation of drinking water service; economic and legal perspectives of the human right to water; socio-economic problems and public policies on street habitability in Bogotá.