BIOGRAPHY
Lawyer with extensive experience advising individuals and legal entities on data protection, the right to be forgotten, habeas data, civil litigation, trademarks, and domain names.
He is one of the pioneers of information technology law in Chile and is frequently invited as a Chilean expert on personal data processing by the Ibero-American Data Protection Network.
He has advised the Chilean government on various bills, decrees, and presidential directives on cybersecurity, the digital transformation of the state, electronic signatures, cybercrime, and information society strategy.
Lawyer with extensive experience advising individuals and legal entities on data protection, the right to be forgotten, habeas data, civil litigation, trademarks, and domain names.
He is one of the pioneers of information technology law in Chile and is frequently invited as a Chilean expert on personal data processing by the Ibero-American Data Protection Network.
He has advised the Chilean government on various bills, decrees, and presidential directives on cybersecurity, the digital transformation of the state, electronic signatures, cybercrime, and information society strategy.
He previously worked as a partner at Valencia & Reusser Abogados; as legal advisor to the Santiago Chamber of Commerce; as a consulting attorney at the Undersecretariat of Telecommunications; as Academic Coordinator of the Center for Studies in Information Technology Law at the University of Chile Law School; and as a consulting attorney at the Digital Government Division of the Ministry of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, particularly regarding the Law on the Digital Transformation of the State (Law 21,180) and the reform of the electronic document and signature law.
He is one of the founders of the Master’s Degree in Information Technology and Telecommunications Law at the University of Chile, as well as the founder of the Chilean Journal of Information Technology Law at the same university.
He has taught Procedural Law, Information Technology Law, and Information Law at several public and private universities, as well as in various postgraduate and graduate programs. He also teaches in the Judicial Academy’s training programs for judges.
He founded and served as president of the Chilean Institute of Law and Technology, and was regularly invited to express his opinion in the National Congress, as part of the processing of bills related to digital law.
