Speakers

Macarena Vargas Losada, legal VP and general counsel, CODELCO

Macarena is Vice President Legal and General Counsel of CODELCO, where she leads the legal function. Her responsibilities span risk management, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, complex litigation, and stakeholder relations across the corporation.

She has a professional background that combines private practice in financial and corporate matters, public sector experience within the Ministries of Finance and Energy, and in house roles in highly regulated industries, consistently working at the intersection of law and business.

Throughout her career, she has led M&A processes, public private partnerships, strategic negotiations, regulatory proceedings, and high-profile litigation matters.

She serves on the boards and committees of subsidiaries and joint ventures linked to Codelco, contributing to the design of the company’s long-term strategy.

She is a lawyer graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, holds an LL.M. from the University of Chicago, and completed the Advanced Business Management Program (PADE) at ESE Business School.

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Alejandro Arias Edwards, general counsel, head of corporate affairs, Siemens Chile

Alejandro Arias Edwards is General Counsel, Head of Corporate Affairs and Board Member at Siemens Chile, where he leads the company’s legal, corporate governance and government affairs functions. He advises senior management and the board on complex commercial negotiations, major infrastructure and energy projects, disputes and strategic risk management in highly regulated environments. Alejandro has over 15 years of experience across the energy, mining and infrastructure sectors and is recognized for bridging legal, business and institutional perspectives. He holds an LL.M. in Natural Resources Law & Policy from the University of Dundee (UK) and is currently pursuing an MBA at ESE Business School, Universidad de los Andes.

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Jessica Matus, director of privacy and security, Magliona Abogados

Jessica provides ongoing advisory services to companies and organizations across Chile and Latin America on compliance with data protection and cybersecurity regulations, privacy impact assessments for major national and regional projects, and guidance to governments and international organizations, including ECLAC and UN Women Chile. She serves as a member of the Ministerial Advisory Commission for the implementation of the Data Protection Law in Chile (2025).

She has led legal departments at Marca Chile, the Ministry of Mining, the Ministry of Justice, the National Statistics Institute (INE), and the Municipality of Antofagasta. She is also the co-founder of the Datos Protegidos Foundation (2015) and the Internet Society Chile (2020), initiatives dedicated to promoting data privacy and security, as well as a free, open, and collaborative Internet.

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Macarena López, head of legal for IT, privacy and cybersecurity, Falabella

Head of Legal for Technology, Privacy and Cybersecurity at Grupo Falabella. With over twenty-five years of experience advising domestic and international organisations on artificial intelligence, data protection, cybersecurity, intellectual property and technology contracting. Law degree from Universidad de Chile (highest distinction) and Master of Laws (LL.M.) from UC Berkeley School of Law, specialising in Technology Law, Intellectual Property and Cybercrime. Consistently recognised by Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Best Lawyers and Latin Lawyer as one of Latin America’s leading specialists in her field.

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Francisca González, head of legal and compliance, Porsche Volkswagen Servicios Financieros

Francisca González serves as Legal and Compliance Manager for the automotive finance company of the Porsche Volkswagen Group in Chile, leading matters related to financial regulation, compliance, data protection, and digital transformation from a strategic, business enabling perspective.

She is a lawyer graduated from Diego Portales University and holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Business Law from Adolfo Ibáñez University. She has previous experience working within the startup ecosystem and technology based companies.

José Jasinski, senior lawyer and data protection officer, Inchcape

Senior Lawyer and Data Protection Officer at Inchcape Chile, leading the implementation of the company’s data protection programme and the broader compliance governance of an automotive distribution and representation business. His role combines corporate legal advisory with responsibility for translating Chile’s new data protection framework into operational requirements for a customer-data intensive industry.

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Tamara Aguirre, Chile compliance officer, dLocal

Compliance Officer at dLocal, with experience in AML/CFT and risk management for financial and fintech operations across Latin America. Background in the financial sector, fintech and Big 4 consulting, working on compliance, transaction monitoring and regulatory risk assessments. Actively engaged in industry collaboration forums, including ChilePay’s Fraud and Cybersecurity Working Group and Compliance Latam.

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Alex Pessó Stoulman, legal and corporate affairs director, Microsoft Chile

Alex Pessó Stoulman is legal and corporate affairs director at Microsoft Chile, where he leads the company’s legal strategy and institutional engagement in the country. Law degree from Universidad de Chile and Master of Laws in Constitutional Law from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He serves as Vice President of the Legal Group at ACTI (Chilean ICT Industry Association). In the public sector he was Legal Director at ChileCompra (Chile’s national public procurement agency) and Legislative Advisor to the Ministry of Finance. In academia, he was Coordinator of the Centre for IT Law Studies at Universidad de Chile’s Faculty of Law from 2011 to 2016.

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Tatiana Munro Cabezas, general counsel EY Chile and LATAM lead counsel (contracts), EY

Tatiana Munro Cabezas is the General Counsel for EY Chile and LATAM Lead Counsel (Contracts), based in Santiago. She is a senior corporate legal executive with fluent English and extensive in‑house experience across regulated markets, spanning the energy sector and professional services (Big Four).

Previously, she served as Corporate Legal Manager at ENAP (Chile’s National Petroleum Company), leading and supervising the company’s corporate, legal and judicial matters in Chile and international operations (including Argentina, Ecuador and Egypt), with responsibility for an in‑house team (reported as 28 lawyers) and budget oversight, and acting as board and committee secretary. Her practice spans corporate governance, civil and commercial matters, competition law, labour and collective bargaining, M&A, restructurings and financings, insolvency, and complex dispute/crisis management (including environmental and criminal litigation, regulatory engagement and stakeholder/community dimensions), with a strong focus on ethics and compliance and reputational risk. She is an alumnus of Universidad Diego Portales and has been recognised in The Legal 500 GC Powerlist (Chile).

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Juan Carlos Urquidi Herrera, general counsel Latin America, Teck Resources

Juan Carlos Urquidi Herrera is General Counsel for Latin America at Teck Resources, based in Santiago, where he leads the legal function for the company’s operations and major projects across the region. He oversees legal, land, and compliance functions. He also serves on the boards of several of Teck’s key assets and projects in the region, including Teck Quebrada Blanca and Teck Carmen de Andacollo in Chile, and Compañía Minera Zafranal in Peru.

He brings significant experience in the mining and natural resources sector, with a strong track record in complex disputes, regulatory strategy, ESG, and large-scale project development. Prior to joining Teck, he held senior legal roles at BHP, where he led some of the company’s most significant litigation, environmental, and regulatory matters in Chile, including landmark settlements, sensitive stakeholder negotiations, and the defence of critical assets in high-risk proceedings.

Alongside his executive role, Juan Carlos is a Professor of Private International Law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He holds an LL.M. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a law degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

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Cristián Conejero, managing partner, Cuatrecasas Chile 

Cristián advises leading companies on domestic and international arbitration, covering commercial and investment arbitration. He is acknowledged in Chile and Latin America as a leading arbitration lawyer.

Before joining Cuatrecasas, he worked at several international law firms.

As counsel for Latin America, Spain and Portugal at the ICC International Court of Arbitration (Paris), he has supervised hundreds of arbitration cases, involving public and private companies from different sectors.

He has been a professor at the law school of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile for several years, and has lectured on commercial law, international contracts and international private law. He has also been a guest lecturer at several universities, including Universidad del Pacífico (Lima), Fundaçao Getulio Vargas (Sao Paulo) and IE Business School (Madrid). Previously, he lectured on commercial and investment arbitration at ESSEC Business School (Paris).

He has written many articles on arbitration in several specialized journals and other publications.

Cristián is recognised by leading global legal directories, including Legal 500, across arbitration, litigation and energy, and has been named a Global Elite Thought Leader in Arbitration for five consecutive years (2021–2025) – the only Chilean lawyer to hold this distinction alongside fifteen peers across Latin America.

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Michel Diban, partner, corporate and M&A, Cuatrecasas