e-BERTONI: marzo 2016

31/3/16

New Challenges

I would like to share with you important news from my side. I accepted the offer to be appointed as the new National Director for Data Protection Authority in Argentina. I recently started with my new job. Because of my new job, I decided to resign as CELE´s Director.

As many of you may remember, after living in the US for many years, I returned to Argentina in 2009. At that time, I founded CELE, the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information. After seven years as CELE's director, I will depart from the center to face new professional challenges. During all these years, CELE increased the amount of financial support it received, which allowed us to carry out our activities and fulfill the center's goals. All of CELE´s research was possible thanks to the work we did together with the many researchers who collaborated with the center, and of course, with people like many of you that always help us.

Thanks for your support during the past years and I look forward to staying in touch with you in one way or another from my new position.

Eduardo Bertoni

en Twitter @ebertoni. Eduardo Bertoni (Phd, Buenos Aires University) is currently the Representative of the Regional Office for South America of the Inter American Institute of Human Rights. He was the first Director of the Access to Public Information Agency (AAIP) wich is the Argentine Data Protection Authority. He was the founder and first Executive Director of the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE) at Palermo University School of Law, Argentina. Before returning to Argentina in 2009, he was the Executive Director of the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF) until May, 2006. Previously, he was the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights at the Organization of American States (2002-2005).

Nuevos desafíos

Hoy escribo para compartir una importante noticia: recientemente acepté ser el nuevo Director Nacional de Protección de Datos Personales de Argentina. Por esa razón decidí renunciar como Director del CELE.

Como seguro muchos recuerdan, luego de vivir durante varios años en los Estados Unidos, cuando regresé a Argentina en el 2009, fundé un centro académico que se dedicaría a la investigación de cuestiones vinculadas al derecho a la libertad de expresión y acceso a la información. Así nació el CELE. A punto de cumplir siete años como su director parto para enfrentar nuevos desafíos profesionales. En estos años el centro incrementó el apoyo financiero externo que permitió desarrollar nuestros trabajos y, además, cumplir con los objetivos que nos trazamos al crearlo. Todo ello fue posible gracias al trabajo que realizamos con los investigadores y las investigadoras que colaboraron con el centro. Y por supuesto, por gente como muchos de ustedes con quienes siempre contamos.

Gracias por todo el apoyo durante estos años. Seguramente seguiremos en contacto de una manera u otra en el futuro.