About

Senior legal counsel for energy leader Schneider Electric, Erika Fernández Posada possesses a wide range of abilities and commercial discipline to succeed in the area of energy law. Joining Schneider was a ‘key decision’ in her career path and a few months later she became the legal counsel for Andean Region, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, directly supervising a team of three attorneys and one indirect. In May 2016 she was transferred from Colombia to Peru, where she works as senior legal counsel for the company’s Andean cluster which includes Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, reporting to the legal director for South America. Some of her most impressive commercial transactions in Peru include acting as legal advice and contract manager on significant mining projects throughout the country, winning her recognition by the company’s internal team and directors as a result of the outstanding results obtained. Fernandez’s over ten years of professional experience has been intertwined between law, energy and corporate sector, where she has applied all the knowledge of all disciplines, ratifying her conviction and applying her passion for law and excellence in practice at the private sector; ‘As a corporate attorney, it is essential to know, understand and be immersed in the business world’ adds Posada. Posada has also published a number of articles on illegal mining and transnational corruption, one of them being “Transnational Corruption Perspectives in Andean Countries 2015-2020”. Her role has seen her train more than 300 employees in compliance polices, anti-corruption program and principles of responsibility and adapt global compliance policies to local law and local requirements. ‘As a law professional, my everyday job is based on trust relationships and that is only achieved through impeccable ethics. Making decisions as an in-house attorney based on principles and values affords me a good sleep at night and motivates me to wake up to work in the morning’ concedes Fernandez.