María Baron
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### Lead Civil Society Co-Chair, OGP Steering Committee / OGP 指導委員會首席民間聯合主席

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**Maria Baron** is the Global Executive Director of [Directorio Legislativo](http://en.directoriolegislativo.org/?noredirect=en_US), a regional organization based in Argentina and Washington, DC. Maria is a journalist, with a master’s degree in International Affairs from the University of Bologna, and is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the National University of San Martin. In addition, she won the NDI Democracy Award for “Civic Innovator”. She has worked in civil society organizations in both Argentina and abroad with the aim of reducing unethical practices of legislators and public officials. She is a Fulbright-APSA Congressional Fellow. She has published eleven editions of Directorio Legislativo. Quiénes son nuestros legisladores y cómo nos representan in Argentina, Mexico and Colombia, as well as other publications related to transparency, anticorruption and open government. She is a founding member of the Latin American Network for Legislative Transparency and co-chair of the Steering Committee of the Open Government Partnership (OGP).

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María Baron 是阿根廷民間組織 Directorio Legislativo 的全球執行董事，同時也是一名記者。María 不僅長年關注立法者和公部門的貪腐行為，更發起並擔任拉丁美洲立法透明度網絡的主席。

不僅活躍於阿根廷 / 南美洲地區，María 也積極參與海外事務。自 2016 年起，María便是 OGP 指導委員會民間成員，在 2020 年更成為指導委員會的首席民間聯合主席。