AWARDEE BIO
Aida is a lawyer from Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru, master’s in public policy management and Doctor in Law, both from Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal, Peru.
She is a professor and coordinator of the Archivistics and Record Management degree at the Universidad Catolica Sedes Sapientiae, Lima, from 2010 to date.
She joined the General Archive of the Nation (AGN acronym in Spanish) on June 15, 1977, in the position of Assistant Archivist. In 1981 she studied archival science at the School of Documentalists in Madrid, Spain, which allowed her to begin an additional activity to her training as a lawyer in the field of archival science. Later she was promoted to positions such as Professional Technician 7, Archive Supervisor, Legal Advisor of the AGN and in January 1992 she was called by the Minister of Justice, the ministry to which the AGN depended at that time, to hold the position of Institutional Head of the AGN, which is the institution where she developed most of her professional career linked to the archives.