Eduardo Orteu
Eduardo is a counsel of Public Law and Regulated Sectors at Gómez-Acebo & Pombo.
He specialises in regulatory, environmental and water law.
He is a State Civil Servant (on leave) and formerly served as a Parliamentary Advisor in Cabinet of the Minister for Ecological Transition and Head of the Support Unit for the General Water Directorate at the Secretariat of State for the Environment in the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment. Previously he held a post as Sustainable Development Advisor as a Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations in New York.
Additionally, during his tenure in the Administration he has served in the General Technical Secretariat for the Ministry of the Environment, the Service for the Defence of Competition for the Ministry of the Economy, the General Technical Secretariat for the Ministry of Science and Technology and the General Technical Secretariat for the Ministry of Public Works.
He is a member of GA_P’s Sustainability Group and represents the Firm in the Spanish Group for Green Growth and is a member of the Committee of Legal Firms for the International Desalination Association (IDA).
Eduardo has participated as author or coauthor in several specialised legal publications.
Areas and sectors in which he/she collaborates
I have carried out numerous transactions with Gómez-Acebo & Pombo.
He joins Gómez-Acebo & Pombo in 2019 as a counsel.
1995 | Degree in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain).
2000 | Advanced course on Public Policies of the European Union from the European Institute for Public Administration (EIPA), in Maastricht (Netherlands).
2002 | Master’s degree in European Union and Spanish Competition Law from the Rey Juan Carlos University (Spain).
2003 | Post-graduate studies on Environmental Public Policies from the Ministry of Environment (Spain).
2009 | Advance course in United Nation Regulation from the New York University (USA).
2012 | Post-graduate studies on Financing for Development from New York University.
2016 | Course in National Defence from the Centre for Higher Education for National Defence.
2019 – Present | Civil servant from the Superior Corps of State – currently on leave of absence (Spain).
Member of the Committee of Legal Firms for the International Desalination Association (IDA).
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12 Jul, 2024 
