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Alicia Romo-Roman
President of Universidad Gabriela Mistral

ALICIA ROMO-ROMAN was born in Santiago, Chile. She graduated with a degree in Law from Chile's Catholic University. She also received a diploma in International Business from Sorbonne University in Paris. Ms Romo-Roman practiced as a lawyer for a number of years and then joined the Industry and Commerce Directorate (Dirinco), a key section of the of the Ministry of Economics Affairs. Ms. Romo-Roman was appointed Director General of DIRINCO in 1984 and served three years in that position. She was later appointed CEO of COPAGRO, Chile's largest consortium of Agricultural Cooperatives and exclusive owner of Bank O'Higgins (now Bank of Santiago). In 1980, she was invited to join as President of the Board and Rector of Gabriela Mistral University, Chile's first and private university.
Ms. Romo-Roman has had a distinguished legal career and has been a senior member of the Board of the Chilean Bar Association as well as a member of the Constitutional Reform Commission in the 1980's. She has acted as Chilean representative on the UN Commission on the legal and social condition of Women, and as chief Chilean representative to the UN on the special commission on the "Abolition of all forms of discrimination against Women". She has also been Chilean chief delegate at the Inter American Commission on Women of the Organization of American States (OAS).
As a stalwart defendant of market economics and free trade, Ms Romo-Roman has been a long-standing member of the Academy of International Business. As a Pacific Basin visionary, under her leadership, the Gabriela Mistral University founded the Pacific Studies Institute as a key forum for debate and research on the importance of the Pacific Basin for the economic vitality of Chile and Latin America. Ms. Romo-Roman has been a member of Chile's PBEC Committee since its inception. She is at present Chair of this committee. In addition to her position as Chair, Ms. Romo-Roman also chairs PBEC's Ad-Hoc Committee on Anti Dumping. The Gabriela Mistral University, the institution she heads, is one the main and most active fora for the discussion of key issues concerning the Pacific Basin in Chile.