Magdalena Correa Henao is an attorney with 25 years of experience and holds a Ph.D. in Constitutional Law. Her career has focused on constitutional law and fundamental and human rights, as well as civil liberties and economic rights, public law, and public economic law. She currently serves as a professor and researcher in the Department of Constitutional Law at Universidad Externado de Colombia, where she leads and teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses, with a particular emphasis on the institutional design of the State, the economic constitution, economic freedoms, comparative constitutional law, and the relationship between business, the environment, and human rights.

Her professional experience encompasses institutional advising, consulting work, and service within the justice system. In a consultative capacity, she has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF) since April 2022 and has provided constitutional law and technical support for various projects involving public institutions, international organizations, and civil society organizations. She also served as a member of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), appointed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to assist with investigations into violence and human rights violations from 2020 to 2021.

Within the justice system, she has served as an assistant justice at the Constitutional Court, as a senior judicial clerk at the Administrative Tribunal of Cundinamarca, and as an associate judge on Sections IV and V of the Council of State. She has also served as an expert witness before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the case of “Ana Teresa Yarce et al. v. Colombia”.

Her academic work includes publications on constitutional review, human rights, and transitional justice, offering contributions that connect constitutional jurisprudence with proportionality, inequality, reparations, and guarantees of non-recurrence.

She earned a Ph.D. in Constitutional Law, with a focus on freedom of enterprise, from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. She also completed a specialization in Constitutional Law at the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies of Spain’s Ministry of the Presidency and earned a master’s degree in Public Management and Administration from the University of Antwerp. She previously completed a specialization in Administrative Law at Universidad Externado de Colombia, where she also earned her law degree.