Denise Ledgard / Peru
Lawyer and specialist in Public Politics, Public Management, Justice and Anti-Corruption Issues. Master degree graduate in Law by the London University and in Public Politics by The University of California, Berkeley. Currently teaches a Public Politics assignment at the Peruvian Catholic University (PUCP) in Lima. From 2013 to 2015, Denise Ledgard was designated National Director of the Memory, Tolerance and Social Inclusion Place (LUM) project.The Memory, Tolerance and Social Inclusion Place (LUM) proposes a project of representation of the period of violence that took place in Peru between the 1980-2000 decades. This project especially pretends to reach a generation that did not live those crucial years in history or those who don´t want to recognize the importance of them. Being an educational and cultural project, it looks up to the construction of dialogue between different social groups having the basis of the period of violence victim’s recognition. Denise Legard has also worked in several public administration positions such as State Modernization Politics Coordinator; Attached Commissioner for State Administration of the Peruvian Ombudsman´s Office; Special Legal attaché at Peruvian embassy in Japan concerning the extradition process of former President Alberto Fujimori.
ORGANIZATION: Peruvian Catholic University (PUCP)
SHORT BIO: Professor
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