Bárbara Fernández Villa

Undersecretary for Legal Affairs at the Ministry of Justice of the Argentine National Government

Lawyer (Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, UCA). Master of Laws (LL.M.), awarded the Gold Medal for the highest academic average in her graduating class and the Gold Medal for Best Final Thesis (Universidad Austral). Master’s Degree in Administrative Law, graduating with Honors for outstanding academic performance (Universidad Austral). Specialist in Administrative Contracts (State Attorneys’ School, ECAE). Ph.D. candidate in Ibero-American Administrative Law (University of A Coruña, Spain).

Coordinator of the Specialization Program in Public Procurement at the Faculty of Law of Universidad Austral. Undergraduate and graduate professor at the Faculty of Law of Universidad Austral. Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Lecturer at Argentina’s National Procurement Office (ONC) and in the Master’s Program in Government Contracting at the University of Medellín (Colombia). Guest Lecturer in the Master’s Program in Administrative Law at Universidad Abierta Interamericana (UAI).

Member of the Public Procurement Observatory (OCP Argentina), the Ibero-American Public Procurement Network (REDICOP), the Administrative Law Institute of the Buenos Aires Bar Association, and the Argentine Association of Administrative Law (AADA). Senior Fellow at Ankawa Internacional (Peru).

Author of articles and book chapters published in Argentine and Ibero-American academic journals on Administrative Law and Public Procurement. Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Derecho Administrativo en el Estado Constitucional, published by the Faculty of Law of Universidad Austral.

Speaker at national and international conferences and seminars on Administrative Law and Public Procurement in Argentina, Spain, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica, Uruguay, and Brazil.

Public official with extensive experience in Argentina’s national public sector, having served for more than 25 years as a legal advisor to various agencies of the National Public Administration and state-owned enterprises. She currently serves as Undersecretary for Legal Affairs at the Ministry of Justice of the Argentine National Government.