Lucas Arboleda Henao

Lucas is an Associate Director in the area of Energy Law and Natural Resources, including electric power, gas, oil and other liquid fuels. He has more than nine years of experience advising entities on administrative and energy law matters, as well as electricity generation, distribution and commercialization companies, as a member of their boards of directors.

In the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, Lucas managed the Colombian nation's financing operations and its companies, including public utilities. He also advised on structuring the regulations applicable to public-private partnerships and was the legal leader of privatization processes of state-owned companies such as ISAGEN S.A. E.S.P.

As Chief Legal Officer of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, Lucas led, among others, the legal position of the Ministry in the integral business solution that ensured continuity in the provision of electric energy services in the Colombian Caribbean. Likewise, he advised on the structuring and development of the long-term energy auctions, leading to the first auction for the incorporation of non-conventional renewable energy generation projects in the Colombian energy matrix.