Alberto Precht Rorris

Board Member at Transparency International

A lawyer from University of Chile, his area of expertise is transparency, access to information, open government, anticorruption, and administrative law. He has been the Executive Director of the Chilean Chapter of Transparency International since 2014. Previously, he served as the President of the Commission for Transparency and Ombudsman at the Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency, and as Executive Director of the newspaper network Mi Voz between 2005 and 2007. Alberto received the highest scores on History of Chile during the National Examination on Academic Aptitude in 1999, and was awarded the “Alberto Hurtado for Civic Journalism” in 2006 for his work as the director of the digital newspaper El Morrocotudo. In 2013, he was selected as one of the Top 100 Young Leaders of Chile, and in 2018, his thesis on Constitutional Law was awarded the second place on academic achievement by the Constitutional Court of Chile. He has been teaching at university level on transparency, good government, compliance, and administrative litigation. Alberto is has an M.A. in Political Communications and Public Affairs from Adolfo Ibañez University and a compliance and ethics certificate by SCCE. He was elected to the TI Board in 2018.

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  • Board Member

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