Maria Patricia Kurczyn Villalobos

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Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI), Mexico

Commissioner of the National Institute of Transparency

She holds a PhD in Law from the School of Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is Commissioner of Mexico’s National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Personal Data Protection (INAI). She is professor since 1996 and full time researcher (with license) at the UNAM’s Institute of Legal Research and member of the Mexico’s National System of Researchers Level III. She is the founder and director of the Latin American Journal of Social Law and author of several works and individual publications, collective publications, dictionaries and specialized journals in law. She was Counselor of the Advisory Council of the National Human Rights Commission (2007-2012) and President of the Mexican Society of Labor Law and Social Security (2010-2012 and 2012-2015).