Head of Legal, Regulatory and Government Affairs for Mexico and Chile.Overseeing legal department including review and approval of all contractual obligations.Privacy Officer and and Data Privacy Programs.Responsible for Compliance and Anti-corruption Programs.Provide advice on regulatory matters to secure the nationwide operation of 120 locations in 2 national and 30 subnational jurisdictions.Secure operations through regulatory litigation.Coordinate in-house lawyers and external law firms.Develop legal and regulatory strategies for expansion.Responsible for legal matters in labor relations, including litigation.

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Public speaker in Mexico and abroad. Law professor.

Responsible for the Department’s compliance with data privacy laws as well as transparency andaccess to information regulation.Data Privacy Officer coordinating the institutional data privacy program and its implementation.Public policy measures that have reduced freedom of information and data privacy requests from 20 to 10 days and over 90% of favorable response that regard the Department of Governance within the federal government.Reduction to less than 2% of freedom of information and data privacy requests that are denied due to legal causes and previsions.Member and Secretary of the Transparency and Committee as well as the Ethics Committee.Senior Legal Counsel and representative to the National Institute for Transparency, Information Access and Personal Data Protection (INAI) and other public and private entities.Coordinating institutional relationships with government officials and agencies in high profile matters, such as Office of the President, Finance, Foreign Relations, SAT, CNBV, among others.

Legal advisor and counsel for the private sector and several state and local governments, in regulatory, compliance, fiscal and administrative matters and government relations.Lobbying with governments, members of Congress, congressional candidates, chambers of commerce, private parties and business organizations following up on the implementation of regulations and policies.

Overseeing the city’s industrial and commercial regulation, issuing of business and commerciallicenses.Reforming 90% of legislation and regulation regarding good governance and transparency for theCity of Naucalpan such as the Freedom of Information Ordinance, Government Procurementand Commercial Establishments, among others.Implementing public policy on economic competitiveness and anticorruption measures for thecity’s commercial and urban planning divisions which comprise over 35,000 establishments, withactions such as use of IT’s, alliance with private sector, universities and civil organizations fordenouncing corruption acts, urban development, regulatory reform and strategic planning.Reducing the requisites and time needed to obtain commercial licenses from 60 days to 24 hoursfrom the initial request.I was a sitting member of the city’s Economic and Business Attention Council, which includedthe major chambers of commerce.Liaison to industrial and urban developers regarding major investment projects in order tocomply with regulations and be presented to the city council.

Negotiation, review and authorization of the city’s procurement contracts with suppliers, private,social and public associations. I oversaw more than 1,000 contracts and legal documents per year.Member of various committees regarding public policy, transparency and good governance, suchas Freedom of Information, Public Procurement, Public Works and Municipal Development andUrban Planning.Simplifying the public bid and procurement regulations, reducing the time and procedures toobtain better contract conditions for the city from potential bidders and service providers.Publication of guidelines for municipal normativity and regulation.Secretary of the Municipal Commission for Planning and Urban Development:Analyzing and overseeing compliance of the city’s zoning and urban development plans.Proposals that resulted in regulatory reform which reduced government response time toindustrial, housing and commercial zoning requests made by citizens and urban developersinterested in investing in the city.

Legal advice and review of the legality of the matters referred to the Commissions by theCity Council, as well as its decisions.Analysis and lobbying of projects, regulations and issues referred by the City Council and the preparation of the respective Draft Resolutions.Research and development of projects aimed at improving municipal administration inareas such as: the implementation of total-quality systems in municipal services, public policyprograms, anti-corruption, regulatory improvement programs, as well as for planning andmunicipal development (Municipal Development Plan 2000-2003)