
Team
Eduardo
Vilches
Senior Associate
Eduardo specializes in cybersecurity, cyber defense, data protection, intellectual property, and information technologies.
Degree: Chile, 2013.
Practice areas
Experience
Eduardo has been a senior associate of our firm since 2022.
He has focused his professional practice in matters related to technology, cybersecurity, and privacy. He has been especially focused on technology contracting, negotiation and advice in processes of development, licensing, implementation and maintenance of software, privacy, personal data and information security, e-commerce, and, in general, matters related to new technologies and intellectual and industrial property.
Previously, he worked as a researcher at the Center for Studies in Computer Law at the University of Chile and was a lawyer in the Studies Division of the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security of Chile. Among other achievements, he was part of the team that developed the First National Cybersecurity Policy and Chile’s accession to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, additionally Eduardo worked as a cybersecurity consultant for the OAS.
Education
- Course “ISO 29100 Lead Implementer – Data Privacy Framework”, Universidad de Santiago, 2023.
- Diploma in Law and Artificial Intelligence, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Facultad de Derecho, 2021.
- Course “International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations”, OAS, Ministry of Defense, 2018.
- Diploma in Cybersecurity and Cyber defense, Universidad de Chile, Faculty of Law, 2017.
- Master in Auditing, Security, Governance, and ICT Law, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2013.
- Universidad de Chile, Law School, 2013.
Academic Activities, Recognitions and Memberships
- Professor in the master’s program in Security, Defense, and International Relations at the National Academy of Political and Strategic Studies, 2017 to present.
- Professor in the Diploma in Cybersecurity at the National Academy of Political and Strategic Studies, 2018 to present.
- Professor in the Diploma in Cybersecurity, Law School, Universidad de Chile, 2018 to present.
Executive Coordinator of the postgraduate programs in Cybersecurity and Personal Data Protection, Law School, Universidad de Chile, 2018-2022. - Professor of the course Data Protection in Health: Technological and Legal Aspects, Universidad del Desarrollo, 2023 to present.
- Professor of the course Cybercrime and Risk Management in Institutions. Law School, Universidad de Chile, 2024.
- Professor of the course on Computer Crimes, Law School, Universidad de Chile (2022 to present).
- Scholarship for academic excellence, Universidad of Chile.
- “Cybersecurity Leadership Program for International Visitors” scholarship from the United States Department of State.
- Member of the editorial team of the Chilean Journal of Law and Technology.
- Member of the Chilean Information Security Society.
- Researcher at the Center for Studies in Law, Technology, and Society (CE3) of the Universidad Chile.
Languages
- Spanish
- English