Associate Professor Gwen Grecia-De Vera was appointed as the 18^th Dean of the UP College of Law, to serve from 28 August 2025 to 27 August 2028. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of the Philippines College of Law, where she teaches courses in Political Law and Commercial Law (JD Program) and Comparative Competition Law (LL.M. Program). She recently served as the Program Director of the Competition Law and Policy Program (CLPP) of the University of the Philippines Law Center (UPLC). The UPLC-CLPP is intended to support the legal and institutional framework for competition policy in the country and serve as a platform for developing research and advocacy in competition law and policy in the Philippines and the region and a forum for academics, practitioners, and enforcement officers in the field of competition. Assoc. Prof. De Vera is part of the Clinical Legal Education Program team of the College of Law, where she supervises the public externships with the Philippine Competition Commission and Energy Regulatory Commission. She also previously served as Assistant Professor at the College, where she started as a Senior Lecturer in 1997, and later served as Director of the UPLC Institute of International Legal Studies from 2008 to 2011 and the Institute for the Administration of Justice in 2023. She was Bar Examiner in Political Law and Public International Law for the combined Bar Examinations of 2020 and 2021. Before her return to the regular faculty, she served as Dean of the Manuel L. Quezon University School of Law.

Assoc. Prof. De Vera joined the Philippine Competition Commission in 2017 as its first Executive Director. Before the passage of the Philippine Competition Act, she worked on antitrust and competition issues in various sectors, including pharmaceuticals and energy. She has experience in advisory, transactional and litigation work in both the private and public sectors, as partner at Puyat Jacinto & Santos (PJS Law) where she led teams in Infrastructure, Regulatory and Compliance, as well as Arbitration.

In the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Assoc. Prof. De Vera previously served as a member of the Department of Justice Office for Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council, representing the academe. She is a trustee and accredited arbitrator of the Philippine Dispute Resolution Center, Inc. (PDRCI). She is also an accredited arbitrator of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines – Philippine International Center for Conflict Resolution. She recently completed the PDRCI Commercial Mediation Training Program. As former director of the UPLC Institute of International Legal Studies, she developed a program intended to support participation in international negotiations (particularly on the part of Philippine government negotiating teams or panels). She is part of Consensus Building in Asia (CBAsia), a network of academics and practitioners and participated in various workshops exploring multi-stakeholder processes.

Assoc. Prof. De Vera received her Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from the University of the Philippines College of Law in 1995 and was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 1996, having obtained the 7th highest ranking in the Bar Examinations. She obtained her Master of Laws (LL.M) degree, with honors, from Northwestern University School of Law in 2010.