Adriana Labardini is a Mexican attorney, specialized in the field of telecommunications and ICT. Since September 2013, she sits in the Board of Commissioners of the Federal Institute of Telecommunications, appointed by the Executive and ratified by the Senate, after a competitive selection process. IFT is an independent, constitutional entity which regulates telecomm and broadcast industries and acts as competition authority.

Ms. Labardini obtained her bachelor law degree from “Escuela Libre de Derecho” in Mexico City, and a Master’s degree (LLM) from Columbia University in New York. She has specialized in law and public policy for telecommunications, ICT, as well as consumer law.

She has also served as Secretary on the Board of the Federal Telecommunications Commission from 1999 to 2003 and for 16 years worked as an associate and partner in a major corporate law firm, specializing in the areas of corporate law, administrative law and Telecommunications.

She has given numerous lectures, courses, and has published articles related to public policy and law for Telecommunications and ICT, class actions, and consumer protection in national and international educational institutions as well as in public and private universities. She is a former Fulbright scholar and an Ashoka Fellow for her work on promoting access to justice through class actions.

She was Director and Co- Founder of Alconsumidor, a non-profit association pioneer in the defense of consumer’s rights.

She has also served as advisor of various public institutions in Mexico, including the Federal Consumer Protection Agency, the former Federal Telecommunications Commission, and the National Advisory Committee on Standardization of the Ministry of Economy.

She spent a year in University of North Carolina and Duke as a Hubert Humphrey Fellow in 2003.

Adriana is the mother of three sons: one graduated from CIDE law school the other two college students.

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