Beatriz Leycegui Gardoqui
Mexico | Partner, SAI Law & Economics
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Beatriz Leycegui Gardoqui is a partner at SAI Law & Economics. From 1999-2006, she worked on the firm’s regulatory and public policy practice teams, and she rejoined the firm in 2013 as head of international trade and foreign investment. Throughout her career in the public, private, and academic sectors, Leycegui has gained thirty years of professional experience in international trade, public policy, and regulatory matters.
Leycegui served as undersecretary for foreign trade at the Ministry of Economy of Mexico between 2006 and 2011. She also served in the same ministry as director of legal analysis at the office in charge of negotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement between 1990 and 1992. Her public sector experience also includes five years of service at the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1983 to 1988.
From 2011-2012, she worked as a research analyst at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. Prior to that, she worked as a professor at the same university from 1993 to 1999. She has published various articles and coordinated several books, including Reflections on Mexico’s International Trade Policy – 2006- 2012.
Leycegui graduated as lawyer from the Escuela Libre de Derecho, and she also holds a master’s degree in foreign affairs from the University of Columbia in New York. She is part of the World Trade Organization’s indicative list of panelists and serves as panelist. She is founding member of the Mexican Council on Foreign Affairs and fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute in Canada.