About

Javier Pacheco Mauro started his career back in 1998, working at well-known local law firms that helped him develop as a commercial lawyer and notary public. During this period he was able to manage important clients, and gave support to in-house lawyers in their day-to-day activities and relevant transactions. In 2013, he joined Laureate International Universities, the largest global network of degree-granting higher education institutions, as in-house regional lawyer and in February 2016 he became a regional legal manager and also serves as an ethics and compliance officer. Upon joining, he found a solid legal department with a low profile: ‘I have helped it grow and get recognition by the organisation and local clients as one of the most effective and reliable legal departments in the region’, he says. Pacheco has had a key role in the construction of new campuses in Panama and Costa Rica including the Health Science building in Costa Rica and the new state-of-the-art campus for Universidad Latina in Costa Rica. Pacheco has been chosen by Laureate to complete the Harvard ManageMentor Leading People course, this experience has helped him become, ‘a lawyer that focuses [on] becoming a business partner for the organisation management rather than a lawyer
that is only there when problems arise’, he explains.