PROFILE

Malena Errico

Malena Errico

President, Circolo Giuridico Italiano en Argentina

Board Member, Radio Hemisférica

Executive, Argentina Node, CEA Digital Law

Malena Errico was born in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She earned her law degree from Universidad del Salvador in 1999 with an Honors Diploma.    

She holds a Specialization in Public Law – Economic Regulation of Public Services from Universidad Austral. 

She holds a Diploma in Public Policies for Sustainable Development (Sustainable Development Goals, 2030 Agenda) from Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (U.T.N.)

Specialist in Public Security Administration and Law – from Universidad Del Salvador – Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (thesis in progress).

She served as Chief of Advisors in both chambers of the National Congress, where she worked on drafting the first law against human trafficking (Law 26.364), and was a member of the Intersectoral Union Commission against Human Trafficking – Human Rights Secretariat – Confederación General del Trabajo (C.G.T) and the Interministerial Board of the National Executive Branch against Human Trafficking.

She coordinated the Gender and Human Trafficking Area of the Consejo de la Magistratura del Poder Judicial de la Nación (Res. 43/2012).   

She is currently an official of the Cámara Federal de Casación Penal and a trainer in the gender workshops of the Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación Argentina.

Since March 2020 she has been President of the NGO “Circolo Giuridico di Argentina”, made up of judges, officials and students of legal sciences and humanities.

She is Legal Coordinator of the “Proyecto Bien Restituido – Para el desmantelamiento patrimonial del crimen organizado y el fortalecimiento de la sociedad civil” (Restored Assets Project – for dismantling the assets of organized crime and strengthening civil society), funded by the European Union (CSO-LA/2020/421-852).

Elected member of the Consiglio Generale della Confederazione degli Italiani nel Mondo, headquartered in Rome, Italy (C.I.M.), by unanimous vote at the Plenary Assembly of the XIII Congresso, held in Havana (Cuba) in May 2022.

Director of the work “Diálogos de la Cultura jurídica italo-Argentina”, Ed. La Ley Thomson Reuters – CUIA (Consorzio Universitario Italiano per L Argentina).

Editor of the Revista del Colegio de Abogados de la Ciudad de Río Grande – Tierra del Fuego – Argentina.

Member of the Civil Society drafting committee – Argentina text – High-Level Political Forum (UN HLPF) 2022, Latin America and the Caribbean, Sustainable Development, Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

Author of several doctrinal articles published in law journals in her areas of specialization, including human rights, technology and gender.