Nora Luzi

Coordinator of the Democratic Governance Area at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Argentina.

A lawyer and specialist in International Relations, she graduated from the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences of the National University of La Plata (UNLP). She holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the Washington College of Law at American University, United States.

Since August 2011, she has served as Coordinator of the Democratic Governance Area at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Argentina, where she oversees an extensive portfolio of projects related to transparency, corruption, organized crime, security, justice, and human rights.

Between 2003 and 2005, she worked as an international consultant for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) in Washington, D.C., within the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit for Latin America and the Caribbean. Subsequently, from 2005 to 2007, she served as an advisor to the Justice Administration Programme in Bolivia, focusing on civil, commercial, and administrative law.

Previously, from 1998 to 2002, she held the position of Director of Infringement Proceedings at Argentina’s National Secretariat of Commerce, a position she obtained through a competitive selection process. She also chaired ad hoc arbitration panels within the National Consumer Arbitration System. Between 1993 and 1997, she served as a legal rapporteur at the Office of the Attorney General of the Province of Buenos Aires, where she was responsible for a portfolio of civil liability cases involving damages. She also practiced law privately in civil and commercial matters between 1988 and 1997.

Throughout her career, she has received several international distinctions, including the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship, awarded by the U.S. Department of State (Washington, D.C., 2002–2003); a fellowship for public officials awarded by the Government of Japan through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in 1999; and a fellowship from the United States Information Agency in Michigan in 1996.

She is a member of the United States Committee and the Transnational Organized Crime Committee of the Argentine Council for International Relations (CARI). She was also a co-founder of the North America Department at the Institute of International Relations of the National University of La Plata.