General Direction

Dr. Cristos Velasco San Martin is a Mexican attorney with vast experience in the fields of international trade, telecommunications and technology law. He has been involved in the academic and non-profit sector for more than ten years. He is the founder and director of the North American Consumer Project on Electronic Commerce (NACPEC).

He is also the founder and coordinator of Ciberdelincuencia.Org an initiative initially supported by the Internet Society (ISOC) and NACPEC launched in September 2008, the purpose of which is to facilitate and promote the exchange of information and best practices in the field of cyber crime and information security among legal and public policy experts in Latin-America. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council (CSISAC) to the OECD and an active member of non-profit organizations like ISOC and The Public Voice.

He manages Protección Datos México (ProtDataMx) a consulting firm founded in September 2011, which renders specialized legal services in the fields of information privacy & security and the protection of personal data for organizations based in Mexico and Latin America.

He received his Doctorate of Laws (PhD) with an outstanding Cum Laude note unanimously from Universidad Carlos III of Madrid in February 2011; a Masters of Laws in International Trade Law (LLM) from the James E. Rogers College of Law of the University of Arizona in December 2001; and an LLB (Licenciatura en Derecho) from Universidad Del Valle de Mexico in December 1997. He also holds postgraduate specializations in Business Law from Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM), and in International Trade Law from Universidad Panamericana (UP).

He has lectured in areas related to Internet regulation, electronic commerce, privacy & data protection law and cyber crime at ITAM, and as guest lecturer in other Mexican universities. He was one of the architects of the first e-commerce legislation in Mexico in 2000, and has since then actively participated in a large number of conferences and seminars organized by the Mexican Congress and Federal Ministries and authorities in charge of electronic commerce, privacy, data protection, cyber crime and information security.

In Germany, he organizes seminars and lectures in the fields of Cyber Law and Internet regulation at the Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg (DHBW) in the city of Mannheim. He has been a guest researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany and at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT (ICRI) of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. He regularly participates as speaker in international meetings and seminars related to the fields of privacy, data protection, cyber crime and information security.

He is the author of books, as well as a large number of articles published in renowned legal journals, magazines, newspapers and websites in North America, Europe and Latin America. Among his two more recent publications are two books published in English and Spanish, respectively: “Cyber Law in Mexico” (330 pages) published by the Dutch publisher Wolters Kluwer in December 2011; and "Jurisdiction Over Crimes Committed Through Computer Systems and Internet" (416 pages) to be published by the Spanish publisher Tirant lo blanch during the second quarter of 2012.

Cristos has lived, studied and worked in Mexico, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Spain and Germany. He is a native speaker of Spanish, speaks fluent English and German and has traveled extensively in many countries.

Advisory Board

Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch is the current president of the Internet Society, Chapter Mexico (ISOC-MX)and a former member of the board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He is a member of the Advisory Group of the United Nations’ Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and a former member of the United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Corporación Universitaria para el Desarrollo de Internet (CUDI) and the Mexican Internet 2 Consortium. He has served UNAM as Coordinator of the Distance Education Project (1995-1997), Technical Secretary of the Computing Advisory Council (1991-1997) and Head of the Graduate School in Chemistry (1993-1995). He is a Professor in the School of Chemistry. From UNAM he also leads the National Network for Videoconference in Education. Dr. Pisanty received a Bachelor´s degree in Chemistry, and M. Sc and Ph. D. Degrees in Physical Chemistry from UNAM. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung in Stuttgart, Germany (1984-1986).

Ing. Oscar Robles Garay currently serves as General Director for the Network Information Center (NIC-Mexico), organization in charge of the ccTLD .MX administration and IP space allocation for Mexican ISP’s. He is one of the founders of the Latin American and Caribbean ccTLDs Organization (LACTLD) and President of the Board. Since 2003 seats on the Board of Directors of the Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC) and in 2005 was appointed as Advisory Council Member for the Public Interest Registry (PIR). He participated in the ICANN Membership Advisory Committee (MAC), the At-large Study Committee (ALSC), Domain Names SO Council (NC), ccNSO Assistant Group, ccNSO Launching Group (ccNSO-LG) and currently seats on the ccNSO Council. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Internet Society, Chapter Mexico (ISOC-MX). He has been teaching the “e-commerce Legal Framework” course since 1999, in the Virtual University of Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM). He holds a degree in Computer Systems Engineering and a Master degree on Information Technologies Management, both from Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Campus Monterrey.

Dr. Julio Tellez Valdés currently is a full-time legal researcher at UNAM’s Legal Research Institute (Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM). He acted as legal expert (perito) in Law and Information Communication Technologies (ICT) for Mexico’s Federal Judicial Branch. He is Vice-President of the Iberoamerican Federation of Informatics Law (FIADI) in Spain; honorary member of the Mexican Academy of Informatics and national researcher in the Mexican national research system. He has been professor of information and communication technology law in a large number of private and public universities in Mexico and overseas; and he obtained an award as an “outstanding young academic” in the area of social science research in 1998 from UNAM. He has a large number of articles and books published that have been used as text-books for the subjects “Informatica Jurídica” and “Derecho de la Informatica” in Mexican universities and across Iberoamerica, among these books are: (i) “Derecho Informático”; and (ii) El Derecho y la Sociedad de la Información: La Importancia de Internet en el Mundo Actual. Dr. Tellez has a bachelor of laws degree with honorary merits from Universidad La Salle in Mexico and a doctorate in legal informatics from the University of Montpellier in France.