She graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Guadalajara and holds a Master's degree in International Legal Cooperation from the Free University of Brussels. Lina is an expert in information classification, files, data protection, privacy and Internet governance and has published books and academic articles on these subjects. For 8 and a half years she was Head of Government Relations and Public Policies in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean at Google. Previously, she worked for 12 years in the public sector in Mexico and Europe, nine of which she worked at the Federal Institute for Access to Information and Data Protection (IFAI) as General Director of Classification and Personal Data and later as General Director of Self-Regulation within the area of personal data protection.
Currently, she is a partner at Videre Digital Law Firm and Senior Advisor on Privacy and Internet Governance at the Centro-i for a Society of the Future.
She is a member of the ccTLD NIC Mexico Advisory Committee as well as the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). She was a member of the Advisory Board for the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation in Washington DC; of the “Future of Privacy Forum” together with experts in internet privacy, and chaired the Digital Economy Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce (Mexico) for 8 years. She was an associate research professor at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching, A.C. (CIDE) where she specialized in issues related to law and new technologies, as well as a professor in diploma courses at the Universidad Panamericana, the Escuela Libre de Derecho and the ITAM in Mexico.
She has participated in more than 300 discussion panels, seminars, and international events, including:
- World Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
- Ibero-American Data Protection Network
- South School of Internet Governance
- Member of the group of experts for the OAS Cybersecurity Agenda
- International Institute of Communications (IIC)
- OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Digital Economy
- Google’s representative in the Industry side room in the negotiations for the Trade Agreement between Mexico, the United States, and Canada (NAFTA).
- Multiple forums on internet governance, telecommunications, digital economy, and data protection.