Denise Guillen

KPMG - Mexico

Denise Guillen

KPMG - Mexico
Speaker

Curriculum Vitae

With proven track record, credibility and meaningful contributions over 30 years, Denise creates value for the business stakeholders, passionate about business strategy, advanced negotiations, privacy, crisis management and compliance and integrity. She is a female role model at Women in NielsenIQ (“WIN”) in LATAM. Denise is Board Member of Ilustre y Nacional Colegio de Abogados, founding Board Member of AbogadasMX, founder and Director of Bufete Jurídico Social of INCAM and Board Member of Centro Mexicano Pro Bono. Denise is certified Board Member by the Financial Times Non Executive Director Diploma and also by EGADE Women For Boards Diploma. She was recognized by The Legal 500 GC Power List, the GC Magazine and the In-house Lawyer as “one of the in-house counsel who are driving the legal business forward” where the “most influential in-house lawyers in Mexico are highlighted”. In 2022 was included in the GC Powerlist by the Legal 500 Mexico by The Corporate Counsel 100 Latin America as “one of the 100 in-house practitioners who have demonstrated to be the most influential and innovative practitioners across Latin America”. Foro Jurídico Magazine included Denise as one of the “Most Influential Lawyers” in Mexico. Chambers and Partners nominated Denise as “part of the short list of nominees for the award as In-house Lawyer of the Year in the Category of Diversity and Inclusion”. She has been named G20 Empower Advocate by Mexico Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She was named Honorary Counselor of the Consultative Council of INAI and named Juror of the first “Contest on Innovación and Good Practices” by INAI. Denise graduated with honors from Universidad La Salle. She has attended different post graduate programs such as Crisis Management and Business Continuity at MIT, Management Program for Lawyers at Yale University, Negotiation for Lawyers at Harvard Law School, the Highly Specialized Course on Supranational Protection of Fundamental Rights at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is co-author of a privacy article in the IAPP Latin America Dashboard Digest and co-author of three books by Tirant lo Blanch on privacy, “Puebla la Otra Batalla, Protection of Private Life in Natural Disaster Situations and Contigency”, “INAI Relevant and Polemical Resolutions (12 leading cases)” and “Dictionary on Fundamental Concepts on Protection of Personal Identifiable Information”, she is also author of the article “Women in Law in Latinamerica” for the GC Magazine. Prior to joining NielsenIQ, she collaborated at GE, CIE, TVAzteca and Basham Ringe y Correa.

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