RAFAEL CHAVERO GAZDIK

Attorney graduated from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB), Caracas, 1994. Specialist in Administrative Law at Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV), Caracas, 1997. Master's Degree in Law (LLM) from Duke University, N.C., 1998 and a Doctorate in Law from Universidad Central de Venezuela(UCV), Caracas, 2024. He was associated with the law firms Travieso Evans Arria Rengel & Paz and Baumeister & Brewer. He was a scholarship recipient from the "Rómulo Gallegos" Program of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission, Organization of American States (OAS) and was the rapporteur of the Political Administrative Chamber of the Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice. He has extensive experience in constitutional and administrative law, particularly in judicial protection under the Constitution, public sector regulatory issues, city planning, environmental issues, administrative contracts, concessions, public bids and constitutional and administrative litigation in general. Likewise, he has been a corporate attorney and consultant to diverse national and foreign corporations, both public and private. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in administrative and constitutional law at Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV), Universidad Metropolitana (UniMet) and Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB). Has completed several courses on negotiation and mediation at Harvard Law School. He was Vice-president of the Venezuelan League of Professional Baseball. Author of numerous specialized publications. He is fluent in English.