Beatriz Leycegui Gardoqui

International Trade/WTO

Beatriz has thirty years of professional experience in international trade, public policy and regulatory matters; acquired through her practice in the public, private, and academic sectors.

She is a partner at SAI Law & Economics, which she rejoined in 2013 as Head of the International Trade and Foreign Investment, as well as the Regulatory and Public Policy Practice teams. Position she previously held in the firm from 1999 to 2006. As professional and her practice areas are internationally recognized by: Chambers and Partners, Legal 500, Who is Who Legal and Best Lawyers.

Beatriz served as Undersecretary for Foreign Trade at the Ministry of Economy between 2006 and 2011. She also served in the same Ministry as Director of Legal Analysis at the Office in charge of negotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement between 1990 and 1992. Her public sector experience also includes five years of service at the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1983 to 1988.

She worked as a research analyst at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) between 2011 and 2012. Before, she worked as a professor at the same university from 1993 to 1999.

She has published various articles and coordinated several books, including “Reflections on Mexico´s International Trade Policy – 2006- 2012”.

Beatriz graduated as lawyer from the Escuela Libre de Derecho. She holds a Master’s Degree in Foreign Affairs from the University of Columbia in New York.

She is part of the World Trade Organization’s indicative list of panelists and has served as panelist. She is founding member and part of the Governing Board of the Mexican Council on Foreign Affairs, Fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute in Canada, and part of the Editorial Board of the newspaper Reforma, Business section.