About

Juan Carlos Rodríguez-Cordero has served as the legal and regulatory counsel for international telecommunications and media company, Millicom International Cellular (Tigo) for the last seven years, where he has most recently worked through the new challenges now present in open competition. He is also concerned with supporting and overseeing the legal team of the new operation in Nicaragua. Prior to this role and for a number of years, he partook in a role as professor of the Masters program in intellectual property at Distance State University of Costa Rica where he assisted in training and experience as a lawyer and political scientist, something he claims has served ‘as the key to provide a compressive legal advice and contribute to the corporate strategy’. Prior to this he also served as the director of the school of law at Castro Carazo University for two years. Prior to this, he worked at Dos Pinos for six years, initially joining as assistant legal and then later as legal advisor. Rodríguez-Cordero says that what served him during his career is ‘the understanding of the environment of the region is imperative to support the business and the strategic path of the corporation’.