Sebastián Barocelli holds a PhD in Law from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) in Argentina, where he is Associate Professor (by public competition) in Civil and Commercial Contracts and Elements of Civil Law. He is Full Professor of Civil and Commercial Contracts and Market Regulatory Law at the Universidad del Salvador (USAL) in Argentina, where he also serves as Director of the Law Program, Director of the Master’s Degree in Civil Law, and Director of the Diploma in Consumer Law. He teaches Contract Law at the National University of Avellaneda (UNDAV) in Argentina and is a postgraduate and doctoral professor at UBA, as well as at USAL, UCA, and UNLaPam. He is also an Associate Researcher at the “Ambrosio L. Gioja” Institute (UBA).
He is  Academic Secretary of the Argentine Institute of Consumer Law (IADC). He was National Director of Consumer Protection and Consumer Arbitration in Argentina (January 2020–February 2022), and is currently in charge of the Consumer Law Studies Department at the Public Defender's Office of the City of Buenos Aires.
He has served as Head of the Argentine Delegation and Pro Tempore President of MERCOSUR’s Technical Committee on Consumer Protection, as well as Representative and President of the OAS’s Consumer Safety and Health Network (RCSS), and the Ibero-American Forum of Government Consumer Agencies (FIAGC). He represented Argentina before the UNCTAD Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Consumer Law and Policy and before the OECD’s Consumer Policy Committee (2020–2022). He also served as technical advisor to the G20 Digital Economy Working Group.
He has been invited as an expert and speaker by UNCTAD, the Argentine and Peruvian Congresses, Juriscope (France), and GIZ (Germany), and has taught or lectured in Argentina, Uruguay, the United Kingdom, Germany, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, the United States, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland, Australia, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
Prof. Barocelli has directed eight research projects on consumer protection, authored or co-authored 14 books, and published over one hundred articles in Argentina and abroad. He is Co-Director of the Revista Argentina de Derecho del Consumidor Journal. He has held positions in all three branches of the Argentine government at both national and local levels over the past two decades.