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EXECUTIVE DIRECTION


Cristián Riego Ramírez
Executive Director
Riego, of Chile, holds a law degree from the University of Chile as well as an LL.M. from the University of Wisconsin (1997). He served as a research attorney on Chile’s National Truth and Reconciliation Committee (1990-91) and as the Director of the technical team that wrote the Chilean Criminal Procedure Code and Public Ministry legislation (1994-2000)...read more
PROFESSIONAL STAFF

Andrea Cabezón Palominos
General Cordinator
Cabezón, of Chile, is a journalist who holds a degree in Social Communication from Universidad Diego Portales (2002). She has studied Strategic Communication and Public Policy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2007-08)...read more

Francisco Cruz
Secretary of the Board of Directors
Cruz, of Chile, holds a law degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and a graduate degree in Constitutional Law from the same institution. Over the past nine years, he has held various positions within the Ministry of Justice, including Director of the International Relations and Cooperation Unit ... read more

Carolina Villadiego
Research Coordinator
Villadiego, of Colombia, is an attorney and specialist in public management and administrative institutions educated at Universidad de los Andes – Colombia.  She holds a Master’s degree in Political Science and Sociology from the Latin American School of Social Sciences ...read more

Erick Ríos Leiva
Training Area Coordinator
Ríos, of Chile, is an attorney with an undergraduate degree in Legal and Social Sciences and a Master’s degree in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedural Law, both from Universidad Diego Portales.  In 2010, he completed a certificate program in Neighborhood Social Management the University of Chile’s Sociology Department....read more

Mauricio Duce
Academic Coordinator of the Inter-American Training Program
Duce, of Chile, is an attorney who holds a Master of the Science of Law degree from Stanford University. A Fulbright Scholar in 1998 and 2002, Duce has conducted research at the law schools of the University of California–Berkeley, Yale, and the University of Wisconsin.... read more

Gabriel García B.
Training Area Assistant
García, of Argentina, has a degree from the Universidad Católica “Nuestra Señora de la Asunción” School of Legal and Diplomatic Sciences (Paraguay) in Law and Notary Studies. He has worked as a researcher for Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ, Germany) on the Program to Support Criminal Procedure Reform in Paraguay and was a Junior ...read more

Ricardo Lillo
Management and Information Area Coordinator
Lillo, of Chile, is an attorney who holds a degree in Social and Legal Sciences from Universidad Diego Portales, where he has served as a teaching assistant for the courses Case Role-Playing and Writing Workshop. In 2008, he was an intern with the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Court on Human Rights in Washington, D.C. ...read more

Natalie Reyes
Investigative Attorney
Reyes, of the United States, holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.S. from Fordham University.  At NYU, she was a Research and Writing Editor on the Moot Court Board and a Class Representative and Social Chair of the Student Bar Association....read more
SUPPORT AREAS

Administration


María Cecilia Torche Sepúlveda
Administration and Finance Manager
Torche, of Chile, received her degree in Commercial Engineering from the University of Concepción, her MBA in Human Resources Management from the Instituto de Directivos de Empresa, IDE-CESEM in Madrid and a Certificate in Human Resources Management from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. ...read more

Gabriel Correa Correa
Accountant
Correa, of Chile, is a General Accountant and holds a degree from Santiago’s High Institute of Commerce No. 2.  He worked as Chief of Remunerations in the Ministry of Education’s Provincial Remunerations Office for Primary Education in Santiago from 1975 to 1982 and served as Chief of Remunerations for Teaching and Health Staff for the Municipality of Renca... read more

Sandra Araneda Jofré
Computer Assistant
Araneda, of Chile, is a bilingual executive secretary (English and Spanish) who holds a degree from Esucomex Professional Institute. She has served as the Secretary of the Director of Economics and Finances at the same institution until 2004.....read more

Pilar Ávila Pérez
Secretary and Event Coordinator
Avila, of Chile, is an executive secretary who holds her degree from Manpower Chile. She studied Public Relations in the Extension Center of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. From 1991 to 1997...read more

Guillermo Morales P.
Assistant
Morales, of Chile, worked in the Graphic Workshop of the Council of Deans of Chilean Universities as a staff member and assistant (1971-1973)....read more