About

Andrea Convalia’s three-year tenure at global consumer products company L’Oréal has been defined by her widespread impact on the Chilean legal department and the wider company. She has enhanced the use of technology in the legal team, encouraged the use of new tools, fostered relationships between legal and business colleagues, and generally improved the efficiency and effectiveness of internal legal advice. She is known for spending time on the ground, which allows her to have a close relationship with her fellow co-workers and a true understanding of the retail and consumer market in Chile. She is also recognised as a great team enabler beyond the frontiers of legal work. As general counsel of a multinational organisation, she has to stay up-to-date with the ever increasing number of global regulations. With significant increases in Chile’s regulatory law having taken place in the past five years, Convalia has actively taken the initiative to form close relationships with fellow colleagues and reach out to the wider industry, enabling a swift and informed response to new regulations. In the past she has participated actively in law making processes and discussions in Congress, on matters such as the consumer act, data protection and insurance and credit card markets. Before joining L´Oréal she served Cencosud for five years and spent four years at a law firm. Her talent as an in-house counsel was recognised by her peers when she reached the final of the Idealis Ranking of “Chile’s Leading Lawyers” in 2015.