Email: mvaldes [at] nic.cl
LinkedIn:    [Margarita Valdes Margarita Valdes]
Twitter:    @margaritavaldes

Margarita Valdes is From Santiago Chile. Legal and business manager for NIC Chile.

She is in charge of designing the administrative and commercial policies as well as the administration of the local domain name dispute resolution system. She is in forefront of steering group of NIC Chile and in the Chilean National Council for Domain Names and IP Numbers. Margarita also provides legal assistance in intellectual property, industrial property and cybercrime to different governmental organizations including the Chilean Civil Police, Ministries and Official Departments. She is also a member of the Nom Com of ICANN, representing the ccNSO.[1]

She is the former President of LACTLD (Latin American and Caribbean Top Level Domains Organization) and participated as a permanent representative of NIC Chile before joining ICANN. Magarita has also worked as the Legal and business manager at Webhost Chile S.A. in the past.

Work edit

Margarita is a frequently invited professor for graduate courses, in diploma and master programs at the University of Chile, the Catholic University of Chile and other universities. Before joining NIC Chile, she worked at the legal division of the Chilean Author Rights Society and previously in Webhost S.A.,a pioneer Internet Service Provider in Chile, as legal and intellectual property advisor on matters of the Internet, domain name registration, consumer protection, and illicit actions in the on-line environment

Education edit

She was educated at Universidad de Chile.[2]

Publications edit

  • Internet Censorship Around the World[3]

Presentations edit

  • Experience of Operating .CL WSIS II- PrepCom 3, Geneva, September 26th, 2005[4]

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