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Juan Diego Mujica Filippi
Researcher, Harvard Law School
Peru

Juan Diego is a lawyer and academic interested in how corporations can solve social and environmental problems. He is currently the chief coordinator of the “Fourth Sector Policy Initiative” by the Ibero-American General Secretariat and UNDP. 

He graduated first of his class at Universidad de Lima (Peru) and holds a Master of Law (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School, where he specialized in corporate responsibility, for-benefit organizations and SGDs. Before his LL.M., Juan Diego practiced in the corporate and real estate areas of García Sayán Abogados, a preeminent Peruvian law firm. He is the author of several publications regarding the Benefit Corporation legal model in Latin America. Juan Diego is also the author and lead advocate of the #LeyBIC draft bill, which was discussed in the Peruvian Congress during the 2019 session, creating a Peruvian version of the Benefit Corporation model.