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Dr Michael Hantke-Domas is a lawyer with expertise on economic regulation of water utilities, resulting from more than 10 years of involvement as regulator, consultant, and academic.
Mr Hantke-Domas is Chilean and holds a PhD from the University of East Anglia (ESRC Centre for Competition Policy and Norwich Business School), UK.
Dr Hantke-Domas worked for nearly 8 years as legal advisor for the General Director of the Chilean Water Services Regulation Authority. In that capacity, among other things, he took part in the drafting of Chile’s new regulatory framework for water utilities, which allowed for the most successful private participation process in the region.
He left the public sector to get involved in private legal practice. His work involved advising the Costa Rican Competition Agency on the diffusion of the benefits of disputable markets among the national community. He produced two research papers for a joint initiative between the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, and a Bolivian NGO (Agua Sustentable), on general principles of regulatory law, and a comparison between water services regulatory frameworks in Latin America.
In the last year, Dr Hantke-Domas devised for the Minister and the Under-Secretary of Public Works in Chile three new regulatory frameworks: stormwater utilities, rural water services, and public works regulation authority. Additionally, he acted as team leader in the review of the Chilean Concessions Law, producing a new Bill that currently is being discussed before the Chilean Congress.
He has been involved in academia for more than 17 years, usually teaching on government intervention in economic affairs (constitutional, administrative, and economic law and public policy), and competition law.
