About

Since 2010, Rodrigo Hidalgo Pacheco has been legal director at Consejo Nacional de Supervisión del Sistema Financiero (CONASSIF), which is Costa Rica’s national council of financial system supervision. Under this role he is responsible for the definition of strategies and the monitoring legal affairs whilst ‘actively participating in the formulation and analysis of financial regulation in the country in the areas of banking, securities, insurance and pensions’. He also issues opinions regarding appeals filed by supervised financial institutions and other stakeholders against decisions made by the superintendence. The impact of Hidalgo’s work has been seen in recent policy changes made by CONASSIF in 2016; including new regulation repealing some of the existing corporate governance rules, and new rules on simplified bank accounts to expand financial inclusion to citizens who do not have access to financial services. Hidalgo has been building his reputation in Costa Rica’s public sector since 2000. In that year, his career started at Costa Rica’s Ministry of Labour and Social Security as a legal counsel in the administrative office. He spent 2004 to 2006 as an administrative and financial advisor at the Ministry of the Presidency, before joining CONASSIF as an associate in 2006.