Claudia Beatriz Umaña is the Chief Legal Officer and Director of Legal Studies at The Salvadoran Foundation for Economic and Social Development (FUSADES), since 2005. Is responsible of promoting policy advocacy, coordinating studies on rule of law, strengthening the democratic institutions, transparency, and also is the editor of the Legal Studies Newsletter. Since 2008, Claudia has been coordinating the Promoter Group of FOI Act, a civil society organization devoted to the passing of the bill. In 2008, wrote the article “Integración Centroamericana: un proyecto en proceso de construcción” for the Real Instituto Elcano. From 1997 to 2005, Claudia worked as the Commercial Policy Director at the Ministry of Economy, responsible of the Salvadoran trade policy, and the negotiations of multilateral and bilateral free trade agreements, especially in CAFTA-DR and Central American Economic Integration. Before that, she worked seven years as corporate lawyer at Arias law firm.