About

Deborah Luchetta, director of legal affairs and data protection coordinator for Mercedes-Benz in Argentina, is a talented and experienced in-house lawyer and business executive. She has led the legal department since 2014, having first joined in 2009 after other senior in-house legal positions. Luchetta is a data protection specialist and covers corporate and compliance areas, in addition to day-to-day legal affairs. In the words of a nominator, ‘Deborah Luchetta has shown tremendous capacity of response in sensitive issues in an outstanding sensible way. [She is] very keen in analysing the best approach in each case according to her company’s needs’. Mercedes-Benz has been in Argentina since 1951, when it opened its first factory outside of Germany. Today it has a major presence in Argentina, particularly through its Juan Manuel Fangio Industrial Centre where it manufactures a full range of cars, trucks, bus chassis and its Sprinter and Vito vans.