Andrew A. de Castro

Fellow | Anti-corruption, Integrity, Energy, Wildlife Crime

Andrew de Castro is a lawyer, currently based in Japan advising on renewable energy with particular focus on geothermal energy development. Previously, he was in public service having served as an Assistant Special Prosecutor for the Office of the Ombudsman and more recently as Commissioner of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG), where he led the Commission’s search for the ill-gotten wealth of Ferdinand Marcos, his family and their cronies, including stolen art work, jewelry worth and other assets. He has prosecuted high-ranking government officials on corruption charges and advised and managed integrity-building initiatives in the Department of Finance, the Office of the Ombudsman, the Civil Service Commission and the Bureau of Internal Revenue. He managed various international development programs of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), from judicial reform, integrity and governance for Deloitte Consulting and the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA-ROLI). He was also a consultant for the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) where he advised on wildlife crime enforcement.

He has a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree on International and Economic Business Law from Kyushu University in Japan, and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the Ateneo de Manila University where he also received his Bachelors Degree in Psychology. He was a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Program of the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.