DPLF - Key Persons
Ana Elisa is a Guatemalan lawyer and holds a Master's degree in Public Policy. She joined the DPLF team in March 2024, supporting the Human Rights and Natural Resources programs, as well as the Impunity and Serious Human Rights Violations program.
Before joining DPLF, she worked as a consultant for international organizations, such as the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Guatemala, and as a university lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Rafael Landívar. From November 2019 to August 2023, Ana Elisa served as a legal advisor and was responsible for the Fight Against Human Trafficking and Other Gender-Based Violence program for Lawyers Without Borders Canada in Guatemala.
With a career spanning over 11 years, Ana Elisa has dedicated her experience to the defense and promotion of human rights. She worked for six years at the Human Rights Ombudsman's Office (PDH) in Guatemala, where she held positions such as youth rights defender, advisor to the national delegations of the Human Rights Ombudsman, and advisor to the Deputy Ombudsman II. Additionally, she was part of the Technical Secretariat, which included the PDH, the Public Prosecutor's Office, and the International Commission Against Impunity. There, Ana Elisa contributed to the development of a proposal for constitutional reform of the justice system in Guatemala in 2016. Also, Ana Elisa served as a legal assistant in the Public International Law and Criminal Law Area at the Bufete de Derechos Humanos in Guatemala, where she worked on cases related to serious human rights violations committed during the internal armed conflict in Guatemala, both at the national level and in the Inter-American System.
Ana Elisa obtained a Master's degree in Public Policy from the Universidad Rafael Landívar in Guatemala, where she is also completing a Master's degree in Human Rights. Previously, she earned the title of lawyer and notary, graduating cum laude, from the same university.
Daniel is a Brazilian lawyer who joined the DPLF team in February 2014 to work on the Human Rights and Natural Resources program. He is responsible for research, advocacy, and disseminating information on human rights impacts caused by extractive industries and infrastructure megaprojects, as well as the international responsibility of the States involved in them.
During the period of January 2006 to January 2014, Daniel worked at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), serving in the Special Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression; in the Protection Group, responsible for monitoring requests for precautionary measures; and in the Executive Secretariat section of the IACHR in charge of contentious cases and monitoring the human rights situation in Bolivia and Peru. Between 2012 and 2013, he was part of the team responsible for providing technical assistance to IACHR members in the process of amending its regulations, policies, and institutional practices.
He is a guest lecturer within specialized diploma programs, undergraduate and postgraduate courses across several universities in Latin America. Additionally, Daniel has given lectures and training courses for public officials, indigenous peoples, human rights defenders, and academics on different areas of the Inter-American Human Rights System. He has published articles and opinion columns on International Relations, Public International Law, and International Human Rights Law.
Daniel's accolades include the attainment of a Master's degree in International Legal Studies with distinction from Georgetown University, and a Master's degree in the Global Rule of Law and Constitutional Democracy program from the Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy. Previously, he obtained a Bachelor's degree in Law from the Federal University of Minas Gerais and in International Relations from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, both in Brazil.
Job Titles:
- Attorney
- Legal Senior Advisor
- Visiting Professor
David Lovatón Palacios is an attorney who holds a master's degree in constitutional law and is a Doctor of law from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) Law School. Currently, he serves as PUCP director of the Center for Investigation, Training, and Legal Advice (CICAJ) as well as lead professor in constitutional law and human rights. For 25 years, Lovatón was part of the Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL) in Peru, where he eventually became Director. He was also a representative for civil society in the Comisión Especial de Reforma Integral de la Administración de Justicia (Ceriajus) in Peru. He has been a member of the board of directors of CUSO International, a Canadian organization based in Ottawa, and Director of the Clínica Jurídica de Acciones de Interés Público at the PUCP Law School.
In addition, Lovatón has been a visiting professor at other universities and institutions including the Academia de la Magistratura del Perú (AMAG) and the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights in San José, Costa Rica (IIDH). He has served as a consultant for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS), and parliamentary committees of the Congress of Peru.
Lovatón has published various publications and articles on the Inter-American Human Rights System, military justice, access to justice, judicial reform, and corruption.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Member of the Board of Directors
Eduardo Bertoni is a recognized privacy and technology and rights issues, with extensive experience in transparency, access to information, and leading non-profit organizations. Dr. Bertoni is the Director of the Access to Public Information Agency of Argentina and currently teaches at Buenos Aires University School of Law and New York University School of Law (Global Clinical Professor). He was Executive Director of DPLF (2006-2009) and a founder and the first director of the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE) at Palermo University School of Law in Argentina. He was also the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States (2002-2005). He is an Argentinean lawyer and holds a doctorate from Buenos Aires University and a master's in international policy and practice from the Elliot School of International Affairs of George Washington University. He has written extensively on democracy and human rights, judicial reform, international criminal law, and human rights and the internet.
Eduardo joined the board in 2020.
Job Titles:
- Senior Program Officer for Central America
Gabriela Mundo is a Guatemalan attorney and holds a Master's degree in Constitutional Law. In August 2022, she joined the DPLF team as Senior Program Officer for Central America. In this position, she is dedicated to monitoring and providing technical assessments of the selection processes for high magistrate positions, based on existing international standards and best practices in this area. Additionally, she addresses the obstacles and challenges faced by judicial independence in the region, as well as the protection of justice operators in their role as human rights defenders. Gabriela also focuses on the intersection between corruption and human rights, with a particular emphasis on the role of civil society in the fight against corruption.
Before joining DPLF, Gabriela served as the Director of Cooperation and International Relations at the Human Rights Ombudsman's Office (PDH) in Guatemala. During her tenure, she managed, coordinated, and articulated technical and financial cooperation at both national and international levels. She was also responsible for establishing international relations to fulfill the PDH's mandate.
With over 17 years of professional experience, Gabriela has held various roles, including positions in justice system institutions in Guatemala, consultancy for international organizations, teaching, parliamentary advisory, and litigation attorney.
Her solid educational background includes a degree in Law and Notary from the Centro Universitario de Occidente of the San Carlos University in Guatemala, as well as a Master's degree in Constitutional Law from the same university. Additionally, she has completed specialized studies in human rights and international human rights mechanisms.
Gina Kawas is from Honduras and joined the DPLF team in March 2024, working alongside the program directors and being the primary responsible for our organization's grants portfolio.
Before joining DPLF, Gina served as a Senior Program Associate for the Migration, Remittances, and Development Program at the Inter-American Dialogue, from August 2022 to June 2023. She was also a Researcher at the Wilson Center, studying sustainability practices in Honduras.
Previously, she worked as a Program Executive at the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), overseeing operations in the sectors of energy, human development, social infrastructure, rural development, environment, competitiveness, financial intermediation, and productive infrastructure. She was a Research Assistant at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, collaborating with the Director of the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Clinic and the Executive Director of the Innovation and Social Change Initiative at the Center for Public Leadership.
Gina holds a Master's degree in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from New York University and a Master's in Public Administration and Public Policy from Harvard University. Previously, she earned a Bachelor's degree in International Relations and Political Science from the Central American Technological University (UNITEC) in Honduras.
Hannah Jane Ahern joined the DPLF team in January 2020 as a Program Officer, supporting the Judicial Independence program, and the Impunity and Grave Human Rights Violations program. A law graduate from Fordham University (Juris Doctor), she has studied and worked in the defense of human rights since 2015. In addition to her law degree, Hannah also holds a bachelor's degree (BA) in International Studies with a focus on Latin America and a concentration in Sociology from Kenyon College.
During her studies at Fordham, she served as a legal intern at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Costa Rica, and at Refugee Solidarity Network, a New York-based non-profit organization working on issues of refugee and asylum law. She also worked for two semesters at the Walter Leitner International Human Rights Clinic at Fordham; there, she contributed to shadow reports submitted to different UN mechanisms on the rights of sex workers in Africa, and collaborated with Amnesty International on recommendations for reforms in the treatment of death row inmates in Japan.
Throughout her studies, Hannah has specialized in various human rights issue, including the inter-American system for human rights protections; economic, social and cultural rights in Latin America; advanced research in international humanitarian law; transnational businesses and human rights; and transitional justice.
In 2017, she was the recipient of the prestigious "James E. Tolan Human Rights Fellowship" scholarship from the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice to work with the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF) for one year, mainly in initiatives related to the Law No. 30470 "Search for disappeared persons during the period of violence 1980-2000."
Together with the EPAF team, Hannah worked on the classification of cases contained in the Unique Victims Registry for the new Directorate General for the Search for Missing Persons (subsection of MINJUSDH). She also worked on the design and implementation of the project "Memory of the disappeared: Searching for missing persons within the framework of the implementation of Law No. 30470," a series of presentations and workshops for relatives of victims of enforced disappearance funded by the German Embassy in Peru. The workshops were held in the cities of Huancayo, Huancavelica, and Huamanga at the end of 2018, and Hannah's presentations examined Law No. 30470 within the context of international human rights law.
Before beginning her work with EPAF, Hannah was the principal researcher and organizer of an interdisciplinary forum on small-scale mining and human rights in Colombia. She has lived in the United States, Cuba, Guatemala, Germany, Costa Rica, and Peru, and speaks English, Spanish, French and some German.
Juan Carlos, a Salvadoran national, has collaborated as a consultant at many social organizations and public institutions focused on human rights in both El Salvador and across Latin America. He worked for the Archbishop of San Salvador and has joined with other social organizations like the Commission for Human Rights in El Salvador (CDHES), the Christian Legal Relief organization, and the Institute for Human Rights at the University of Central America (IDHUCA)-among others-in order to develop educational, organizational, strategic planning, and public advocacy programs.
Before he began at DPLF, he worked in the Association for Caring Service CVX and the Foundation for Studies on the Application of Law (FESPAD), where he collaborated with the coordinators for International Planning and Cooperation, for Legal Advocacy Center, and for the Transparency and Anti-Corruption Program. For the last four years, he has been a consultant for the Legal Office for Human Rights Defense (PDDH), the Secretary for Social Inclusion under the President of El Salvador, the National Board on Childhood and Adolescence (CONNA), and other state organizations. In civil society, he has recently collaborated with the Consumer Defense Center, the Association for Training and Research on Mental Health (ACISAM), the Local Development Training and Assessment Service (SACDEL), the Foundation for Development Communication, the Central-American Institute for Democratic Studies (DEMOS), as well as for various international cooperation agencies in the region. He is a columnist and member of the Editorial Board of the online newspaper VOCES and has been published in other media outlets like Contrapunto and Diario Co-Latino. He has written and participated in investigations and academic publications, such as "Central-America, A Disconnected Democracy"(Centroemérica, una democracia desconectada) and "Communication, Information, and Power in El Salvador: Keys for Democracy" (Comunicación, Información y Poder en EL Salvador, Claves para la Democracia), among others.
He has taught courses and spoken at conferences about human rights, freedom of expression, peaceful culture, and participatory methodologies in Guatemala, Mexico, Mangua, San José, Bogotá, and Santiago de Chile. He studied political science and anthropology.
Job Titles:
- Communications Coordinator
Karen is a Honduran Communications expert who joined the DPLF team in May 2021 to coordinate the organization's communications and social media strategy, as well as support various communication initiatives with our partner organizations and allies in the region.
She previously worked with Oxfam and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), where she coordinated the design and implementation of awareness and advocacy campaigns for the promotion and defense of human rights, particularly on the economic rights of women and youth, access to justice for women, prevention of irregular child migration and prevention of gender-based violence. Karen also designed strategies for institutional communication and media relations for these organizations.
Under Oxfam's regional ¡Basta! campaign, Karen co-directed the research "Unraveling myths to transform young people's imaginations", which investigates the beliefs and social norms among urban and rural youth in Honduras that reproduce violence against women in intimate partner relationships. In addition, she participated as a workshop leader for strengthening the communication capacities of youth collectives.
Her professional career also includes experiences in editorial project management and implementation of marketing campaigns for private companies.
Karen holds a Bachelor's degree in Communication and Advertising with a focus on Audiovisual Production from the Technical University of Central America (Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana, UNITEC) and a Master's degree in Corporate Communication from the GADEX program and the University of Cadiz in Spain. Additionally, she holds a B.A. in Business Psychology.
Katharine Valencia is a lawyer from the United States. She worked with DPLF first as an intern and then as a consultant several times since 2010. In May 2015 she re-joined the team as a Program Officer and then as Senior Legal Advisor to support several programs and to expand DPLF's work on business and human rights.
Prior to her current position, Katharine was an associate at the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights International Strategic Litigation Unit, where she engaged in advocacy and litigation, including within the Inter-American system. In addition to her projects focused on Latin America, Katharine co-led RFK Human Rights' program on Western Sahara.
Katharine previously worked at Georgetown Law's Human Rights Institute. As the 2012-2013 postgraduate fellow, she collaborated with HRI's director in the teaching of a fact-finding practicum on the human right to water as well as with the American Bar Association on an investigation and report regarding human rights defenders in Guatemala. Additionally, Katharine has worked as a consultant for Human Rights Watch and Freedom House, and as a Statelessness Fellow with Refugees International. Katharine holds a dual BA from American University, summa cum laude, and she graduated from Georgetown Law with a joint degree (J.D., and LL.M. in National Security Law with distinction).
Salazar is a Peruvian attorney, graduate of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, with a master's from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. She was the Adjunct Coordinator of the Special Investigations Unit of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Peru, charged with investigating grave human rights abuses that occurred between 1980 and 2000 in the country. She previously worked in the human rights office of the Peruvian Omsbudsman Office and at the Institute for Legal Defense (Instituto de Defensa Legal), a Peruvian non-governmental organization. She also formed part of the legal team Coalition Against Impunity (Germany), which filed a criminal complaint against members of the Argentinian military for the disappearance of German citizens during the last Argentinian dictatorship.
She has led DPLF since 2009. Under her leadership, DPLF created its human rights and natural resources program, addressing the role of international law in the defense of the land, territory and natural resources in the region. She also promoted a deeper involvement of DPLF in the regional discussion on the future of the Inter-American human rights system, where the organization is a key stakeholder.
Job Titles:
- Director of Institutional Development and Finance
Laura Park has worked at DPLF since 2000 and currently holds the position of Director of Institutional Development and Finance. During her first years at DPLF, Laura was in charge of the institutionalization of the organization, which was beginning its programmatic and investigative activities. In 2005, after the sudden passing of the organization's Executive Director, Laura took on the responsibility of co-directing the organization with Katya Salazar. Currently, along with the Executive Director and the board of directors, Laura is part of the DPLF executive team. Laura manages the finances, administration, human resources, and institutional development, including the implementation of the strategic plan and the development of project proposals and reports. Laura also supports the Executive Director in activities related to the organization's board of directors.
Before coming to DPLF, Laura worked as a Project Development Specialist (1998-1999) and Latin American Program Senior Operations Officer (1989-1998) for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), located in Washington, D.C., where she dealt with topics of international migration, including trafficking of persons, emergencies and resettlement of refugees, return of exiles, and migration for development. Laura is a U.S. national but spent her formative years in Chile. She received her Masters in Latin American studies from the University of Texas in Austin and her Bachelors of Arts in American Studies from Georgetown College.
Leonor Arteaga Rubio, a Salvadoran attorney, joined the DPLF team in January 2012, and heads the program on Impunity and Grave Human Rights Violations. As a Senior Program Officer, Leonor leads investigations, advocacy, and monitoring and analysis on issues relating to memory, truth, justice, and guarantees for non-recurrence of past armed conflicts and current situations of state violence in Latin America. Leonor holds a law degree from the Universidad Salvadoreña "Alberto Masferrer" (USAM).
Before joining DPLF, Arteaga was Deputy Ombudsman for Children and Youth at the Office of the Ombudsman for the Defense of Human Rights. Prior to working at the Ombudsman Office, Leonor extended legal support to victims and their relatives as well as litigated cases on forced disappearances at the national and international level. She has published articles and opinion pieces on the internal armed conflict legacy in El Salvador.
In February 2018, Leonor was appointed by the El Salvador government as a Commissioner for the National Commission for the Search of Disappeared Persons (CONABÚSQUEDA) in the context of El Salvador's armed conflict, an ad-honorem position.
Luis Pásara has worked on the justice systems of Peru, Argentina, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico. His publications include: Judges, Justice, and Power in Peru (Lima: CEDYS, 1982), Law and Society in Peru (Lima: El Virrey, 1988), Judicial Decisions in Guatemala (Guatemala: MINUGUA, 2000), Lima Attorneys in the Administration of Justice: A Preliminary Approximation (Lima: Justicia Viva, 2005), How the Judges of the Federal District Decide Criminal Cases (Mexico, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2006), The Use of international human rights instruments in the administration of Justice (Quito: Ministerio de Justicia y Derechos Humanos, 2008), Law, Justice, and Society in Latin America (Mexico, D.F.: UNAM, 2010), Three Keys to Justice in Peru (Lima: Fondo Editorial de la PUCP, 2010), Judicial Production in Ecuador (Mexico, D.F.: UNAM, 2011) and An Impossible Reform: Latin American Justice on the Docket (Lima: Fondo Editorial de la PUCP, 2014 y México, D.F.: UNAM, 2014).
He has been a consultant for the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights and the Andean Commission of Jurists, and he has undertaken numerous consultancies for the World Bank, USAID, EuroSocial, and the Legal Defense Institute (Peru). Between 1996 and 2000 he was in charge of the judicial issues at the United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala (MINUGUA). He was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. in 1980 and 2011-2012 and at the University of Notre Dame in 1985 and 2000-2002. From 2002 to 2004, he was a visiting research professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE) in Mexico City, Mexico. From 2004 to 2011, he was a researcher for the Inter-University Institute of Iberian-American Studies at the University of Salamanca, Spain. He is a full member of FLACSO (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences) of Spain.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Member of the Board of Directors
Mariclaire Acosta, former President of the Citizen's Committee of the National Anticorruption System of Mexico, is an academic, an activist, a former public servant, and an internationally recognized expert on issues related to the defense and promotion of human rights. During her career, she has founded several civil society organizations and held a number of prominent posts, including director of Freedom House-Mexico; Director for the Americas at the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ); Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) on civil society affairs; and Deputy Secretary for Human Rights and Democracy at the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs under President Vicente Fox. Member of the Board of Advisors for the National Human Rights Commission from 2013 to 2019. She currently presides JTMX, a newly founded think-tank to explore the possibilities for transitional justice in Mexico. She is also Chair of Oxfam-Mexico and of the Advisory Board of the National Council for the Prevention of Discrimination (CONAPRED).
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Law Professor at the Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology
Miguel Sarre is a law professor at the Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology (ITAM) in Mexico City. He was a member of the UN Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture (2004-2015). He holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame and Mexico City's Escuela Libre de Derecho. He promoted the ombudsperson institution in Mexico and was the first ever ombudsperson in the nation (1988-1990). He has worked on drafting legislation and implementing crime labs; state offices to support investigative tools for public defenders, and due process within the prison system and the adversarial system throughout Mexico. He is a regular advisor to the Madres y Hermanas de la Plaza Luis Pasteur, a pioneer national organization for families of people in prison.
Job Titles:
- President
- President of the Board of Directors
Naomi Roht-Arriaza is an U.S. attorney who has received global recognition for her expertise in transitional justice, international human rights law, and international humanitarian law, as well as her extensive knowledge of and experience in post-conflict procedures in Latin America and Africa.
Throughout her lengthy career, Roht-Arrianza has contributed to the defense of human rights through legal and social counseling, serving in top-tier academic positions, and through published academic works. Some of her noted publications include Impunity and Human Rights in Law and International Practice (1995), The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights (2005), Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Truth versus Justice (co-editor) (2006) and The International Legal System: Cases and Materials (co-autor with Mary Ellen O'Connell and Dick Scott) (2009).
Roht-Arriaza has a bachelor's and law degrees from the University of California and continues to work on issues regarding state responsibility for human rights violations, international criminal law, reparations, environment and corporate responsibility.
Naomi Roht-Arriaza is part of DPLF's board since November 2012 and President since May 2013.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Consultant for the Inter - American Commission
Tatiana obtained a PhD in Law from the Carlos III University in Madrid, Spain, with a postdoctoral stay in political and moral philosophy at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, UAM) in Mexico. She also has a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Logic and Philosophy of Science from the National University of Distance Education (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED) in Spain and a law degree from the Universidad Externado de Colombia in Bogotá.
She was an advisor to the National Commission for Reparation and Reconciliation (CNRR) of Colombia and a member of its Historical Memory Group. She was a staff member of the Foundation for Justice and the Democratic Rule of Law in Mexico, the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) in Washington, and the Colombian Commission of Jurists in Bogotá.
Tatiana has been a consultant for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the International Development Law Organization and professor at the Universidad del Rosario, Colombia in Legal Theory, Theories of Justice and Theories of Legal Argumentation. She currently advises the international area of I(dh)eas Litigio Estratégico en Derechos Humanos in Mexico.
Ursula Indacochea is a Peruvian lawyer who joined DPLF in November 2015 to work on issues related to judicial independence She is in charge of monitoring and undertaking technical diagnoses of judicial selection processes across the countries in the region on the basis of international standards and best practices. She also oversees project planning and applied research regarding the fundamental obstacles and challenges to judicial independence in Latin America.
Before joining DPLF's team, Ursula worked in Constitutional Law, Litigation, and Disputes as an associate at a Peruvian firm, where she participated in high-impact cases and provided extensive consultations on the reform of the judicial career system in Peru. Ursula also carried out pro bono work related to protecting the rights of minorities. Between 2012 and 2013, she was a Legal Fellow at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and was in charge of the protection of the independence of justice operators.
Ursula has a Law Degree and Masters in Constitutional Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and a degree in Advanced Human Rights Studies at Carlos III University in Madrid. She has published research on the theory of law, constitutional law, justice systems, constitutional litigation, and international human rights in articles and books. She is also co-founder of the civil society organization Constitucionalismo Crítico, which brings together young Peruvian researchers dedicated to the study and understanding of constitutional law from a critical perspective.
Victoria joined DPLF as part of the team in El Salvador in July 2018 and is a lawyer graduated from Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas. She has experience in money laundering prevention management and social auditing. She is currently a candidate for a Master's degree in Public Administration from Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of DPLF 's Board
Walter Albán has been a member of DPLF's board since 2015. He is a lawyer, professor, and former dean of the law school at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He is also a member of the university's Institute of Democracy and Human Rights, where he is currently the director of the master's program in law, with a focus on political jurisprudence. He has written extensively on constitutional issues and human rights.
He has served in the Peruvian Ombudsperson Office since the institution's founding in 1996; he served as Omsbudsperson of the country from 2000 to 2005. Between 2012 and 2013, he was Peru's ambassador to the Organization of American States; afterwards, he was appointed as Minister of State at Peru's Interior Ministry. Until April of 2017, he was the Executive Director of PROETICA, the group responsible for creating the Peruvian chapter of Transparency International.