Paola Hernández > Gonzalez Calvillo > Mexico City, Mexico > Lawyer Profile

Paola Hernández

(52) 55 5202-7622 phernandez@gcsc.com.mx

Position

Counsel at Gonzalez Calvillo

Career

Paola has a career of 30 years in legal areas in both public and private industrial sectors. For the last 20 years, she worked in Grupo México’s mining division (Americas Mining Corporation –AMC-), Mexico’s largest mining company. During her tenure at AMC, she held numerous high-profile positions including Compliance Officer, Environmental Director and Deputy Director of Environmental and Health Legal Affairs.

Prior to this, Paola worked at Mexico’s Ministry of Economy regarding the imposition of antidumping measures and international arbitration procedures in NAFTA and WTO.

Paola has a very a strong reputation and invaluable experience in environmental law but also technical expertise which lead her to lead environmental mining operations in México, the United States, Peru and Spain. Among her numerous achievements she developed and implemented the legal strategy to release the first two private in situ hazardous mining waste confinements in stable geological formation in Mexico including soil remediation. The methodology implemented was later incorporated into Mexican law and official standards.

Her legal and technical environmental expertise allowed her to be named one of Mexico’s representatives for NAFTA’s (currently USMCA’s) Commission for Environmental Cooperation Joint Public Advisory Committee (“JPAC”) from 2018 to 2020 which advises the Council on a wide array of environmental issues within the scope of the Agreement on Environmental Cooperation.

Also at AMC, Paola implemented the compliance function in Mexico, Peru, the United States and Spain. This professional experience also brought her corporate governance expertise.

Languages

Spanish and English

Memberships

Women in Mining Mexico

Women in Compliance

Education

Among numerous degrees from distinguished institutions, Paola has a bachelor´s degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, an LLM in Environmental Law from the Universidad del País Vasco, a Compliance Officer Degree and certification from the Universidad Miguel de Cervantes in Spain and the World Compliance Association and two negotiation training courses in Harvard Law School in Boston, Massachusetts.