Lina Ornelas obtained her Law Degree from the Faculty of Law at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. She obtained her Masters in Law and International Cooperation from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. For more than ten years, Mrs. Ornelas has developed her professional skills in the public sector, both in Mexico and in Europe, holding positions at the Ministry of Economy and the State Department in Mexico as well as in the European Commission. As Deputy General Director of the Unit for Legislative Studies at the State Department, she was part of the group that first wrote the initiative of the Access to Information Act presented by President Fox to Congress, and then negotiated for its approval. She was later Deputy General Director for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights at said State Department. Since 2003, Mrs. Ornelas is the General Director of Classified Information and Personal Data at the Federal Institute of Access to Public Information (IFAI), where she jointly drafted with the National Archives the general archival standards that apply to the federal government in Mexico. She currently is member of the Ibero-American Net for the Protection of Personal Data.