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Maria Fernanda Rodriguez
New York University’s Center on International Cooperation and Coordinator of the Technical Secretariat of the Iberoamerican Alliance on Access to Justice
Senior Fellow
Biography
María Fernanda Rodríguez is an Argentine lawyer, a graduate of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), with a Diploma in Human Rights from American University Washington College of Law.
She currently serves as Technical Secretary of the Ibero-American Alliance for Access to Justice and as a Senior Fellow at New York University's Center on International Cooperation (NYU CIC). She also holds a senior position at the Public Guardian's Office of the City of Buenos Aires.
Previously, she served as Secretary of Justice (2019) and Undersecretary for Access to Justice (2015–2019) at Argentina's Ministry of Justice and Human Rights. During this period, she led national initiatives on access to justice, gender-based violence, human trafficking, and the protection of people in situations of vulnerability.
She has extensive experience in justice reform, human rights, and international cooperation, having worked with organizations including UNDP, UNICEF, UNHCR, ILANUD, COMJIB, and EUROsociAL.
Her current work focuses on advancing people-centred justice, strengthening institutional co-ordination and promoting integrated approaches to access to justice across Ibero-America.
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