Profile: Carlos María Regúnaga, Director, Menas de Argentina

Carlos María Regúnaga was born in Buenos Aires in 1943 and received his law degree from the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1967. He also attended postgraduate courses at the same university as well as at New York University and at Princeton University.

He has been in-house legal adviser and member of the board of directors of many corporations engaged in banking, oil and gas, petrochemicals, transportation, construction and electronics. He has also represented the Argentine electronics industry in negotiations within the different Latin American associations aimed at regional economic integration. He held the vice-presidency of the Asociación Latinoamericana de la Industria Eléctrica y Electrónica.

He is also vice president of the VT Argentina genetics company, government relations consultant to American Express Argentina, consultant and former consultant, respectively, to the law firms of Dedeu-Ferrario, and Arslanian, Beraldi, Kaminker & Asociados.

In addition to his commercial activities, he is:

- vice president of the Fundación Gobierno y Sociedad, which brings together government, business, and academia to promote 'second generation reforms'.

- director of the Buenos Aires office of the Washington based Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) independent, non-partisan, think-tank; and

- President of the Club del Progreso which is Argentina's oldest existing social and cultural club.

Carlos has also been in public office as presidential adviser and as adviser in chief to the Secretary of Commerce; is a former professor of constitutional law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and of integration law at the Universidad de Belgrano and at the Lutheran University of Brazil, in Porto Alegre.

He is fluent in Spanish, English, and French.