Marcelo Drago Aguirre

Master in Public Administration from Harvard University and Lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, with extensive experience in transparency and data protection. He was President of the Council for Transparency of Chile, Vice Chair of the OECD's expert group on integrity, Consultant to the IDB, the UN and ECLAC. He was part of the team of experts that supported for two years the discussion of the data protection bill in the Constitution Commission of the Chamber of Deputies and the Joint Commission. He is President of the Trade Association of Professionals in Personal Data Protection (AGDP Chile). Director of the Diploma New Personal Data Protection in Chile: Exercise and Corporate Compliance of the University Central de Chile. Partner of DataCompliance.

Education

Lawyer, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Master in Public Administration, Harvard University. Diploma in Cybersecurity, UDD. Course in French Language, Culture and Civilisation, Université Paris-Sorbonne.

Teaching experience

Director of the Diploma in New Personal Data Protection in Chile: Exercise and Corporate Compliance at the Universidad Central de Chile. Professor of Parliamentary Law, Faculty of Law, Alberto Hurtado University. Professor of Regulation and Public Affairs, Master in Strategic Communication, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.

Memberships

President of the Chilean Association of Personal Data Protection Professionals (AGDP Chile). Member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)Vice-Chair of the Senior Officials Working Group on Public Integrity (SPIO) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Work Experience

President of the Council for Transparency of Chile. International Consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank, ECLAC and the UN. Director of Estrategia Pública Consultores. Legislative Advisor to the Chilean Senate. Provincial Governor. Regional Secretary of Housing and Urbanism

Languages

Spanish (native). English (written and spoken). French (intermediate)