María Fernanda Ávila
Chile | Secretary of Mining, Ministry of Economy, Argentina
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María Fernanda Ávila serves as the secretary of mining for the Ministry of Economy of Argentina. Ávila is a lawyer from the National Faculty of Tucumán with a diploma in civil and commercial procedural law from Blas Pascal University. She also has a diploma in economic, social, and cultural rights from the National University of Catamarca, a postgraduate degree in social and political anthropology, and a higher diploma in public policy management and control, both from FLACSO. From 2020 until January 2022, she served as minister of mining for the Province of Catamarca in Argentina.
In 2019 she was general government advisor for the government of Catamarca. She also worked as a legal advisor to the Deliberative Council of the City of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, served as general director of the Office of the Municipality of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca between 2013 and 2019, and acted as head representative of the Provincial Executive Power before the Council of the Judiciary of the province of Catamarca.
Ávila was an event speaker at the Dialogue.
