Natalia González Bañados
CommissionerNatalia González Bañados is a lawyer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, holds a Master of Laws (LLM) from the University of Chicago, and was a Fulbright, CONICYT and University of Chicago scholar.
Career
From 2002 to 2006, she worked as an associate at the law firm Carey y Cía. Ltda., in the areas of corporate and financial law.
She later served as a legislative advisor at the Ministries of Finance, Planning and Energy, taking part in the design of public policies and in the drafting and negotiation of various bills in the National Congress.
She then became Director of the Legal and Legislative Area of the think tank Libertad y Desarrollo. In 2023, she also served as an Expert Commissioner in Chile’s second constitutional process.
Between May 2024 and February 2026, she was an academic at Faro UDD, of the Universidad del Desarrollo.
At the Council for Transparency
In December 2020, she was elected for a six-year term as a Commissioner of the Council for Transparency, and from April 29, 2025 to October 29, 2026 she served as President of the institution.
