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PHD. ANA MARESCA LASA
ACADEMIC ADVISOR
Ana Maresca holds a Law Degree from the University of Barcelona and a PhD in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Barcelona, with the doctoral thesis Administrative Arbitration’, with which she obtained the qualification of Excellent Cum Laude (doctoral thesis reading on 19 October 2005) and the Extraordinary Prize of the University of Barcelona in April 2007.
She began her professional career as a lawyer and partner at Bufete Maresca for 15 years, where she specialized in different areas of Administrative Law (public procurement, public service, asset liability, urban planning, etc). She then went on to work at the Agbar Group (one of the most important business groups in the water services sector worldwide) for more than 11 years, where she held the positions of Legal Director of Aigües de Barcelona and, subsequently, Director of Regulation and Governance of the Agbar-Suez Group until the end of 2022, specializing in water law, public-private partnerships and concessions.
Since the beginning of her career, she has combined her professional practice with teaching, and is currently Professor of administrative law on the Master’s Degree in Law and the Esade Access to the Bar Course since 2011 and Professor and Coordinator of the administrative law subject on the Access to the Practice of Law and Legal Practice Course at the Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía (ISDE) since 2009. She has taught on the Master’s Degree in Business Law at the Faculty of Business Sciences of the University of Barcelona (1998-2010) and has been a lecturer in administrative law at the Universitat Abat Oliba CEU (1996-2010).
She has been Director of the Training Centre of the Chamber of Concessionaires of Infrastructure, Equipment and Public Services (CCIES) since 2024 and Member of the Legal Committee of CCIES since 2015.
She is Secretary of the Administrative Law Section of the Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB).
Between 2021 and 2023 she was President of the Agrupació de Serveis d’Aigua de Catalunya (ASAC).
She was a director of the company Aigües de Sabadell between 2020 and 2023.
She is the author of several publications and articles on Administrative Law.
Languages: Spanish, Catalan, Italian.
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