Flavio Quezada

Flavio Quezada Rodríguez (born 9 November 1986) is a Chilean lawyer, academic and politician, affiliated with the Socialist Party of Chile (PS). He was a member of the Expert Commission created to draft a preliminary constitutional text during the 2023 Chilean constitutional process.

A member of the PS, he currently directs the constitutional program of Instituto Igualdad.

Biography He was born in Santiago in 1986, the son of Héctor Quezada Moreno and Claudia Rodríguez De la Jara.

He studied at the Instituto Nacional before obtaining his bachelor's degree in Legal and Social Sciences from the University of Chile, graduating with highest distinction and qualifying as a lawyer in March 2012.

He pursued a diploma in European Union Law and Institutions at the Complutense University of Madrid, and later obtained a Master of Law in Public Law at the University of Chile with the thesis El procedimiento administrativo sancionador en la ley Nº 19.880.

He earned a Master in Public Law from the University of Bordeaux with the thesis Une comparaison entre la procedure administrative non-contentieuse de la sanction administrative au Chili et en France.

He completed his PhD in law (Cum Laude) at the University of Barcelona, with a dissertation titled La noción de servicio público en el Derecho chileno, español y francés. Formación de una noción jurídica (1850-1950).

Professional career Quezada has worked in both the public and private sectors. He was an associate at Aninat, Schwencke & Compañía (2011–2012). He later served as legal advisor to Constitutional Court minister Francisco Fernández Fredes (2012–2014) and to Education Minister Nicolás Eyzaguirre (2014–2015).

He has advised agencies such as the Superintendence of School Education, the Undersecretariat of Early Childhood Education, the Undersecretariat of the Interior, the Santiago Metropolitan Regional Government, and the Committee for the Prevention of Torture.

From 2018 to 2022, he coordinated the Master in Advanced Public Procurement at the University of Barcelona. In 2020, he was visiting researcher at the Institut Maurice Hauriou of Université Toulouse Capitole.

He is professor of Administrative Law at the University of Valparaíso and teaches Comparative Law at the Alberto Hurtado University. He also lectures in postgraduate programs at the Centre for Regulation and Competition at the University of Chile.

In January 2023, he was appointed by the Chamber of Deputies of Chile as a member of the Expert Commission, established by Law No. 21.533, responsible for preparing a draft for a new Constitution to be submitted to the Constitutional Council. Within the commission, he joined the Subcommission on Economic, Social, Cultural, and Environmental Rights.