About

Gloria Irene Loza Murrugarra is an attorney at law graduated from the Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú, and assumed her current position as Avianca’s general counsel for Peru in October 2017 after receiving her Master’s degree at the University of California in Los Angeles. Loza started her career as a trainee at Citibank Headquarters in Peru, where she learnt how companies work and the role of stakeholders around investment projects, which then led her onto pursuing a career as in-house counsel in LATAM Peru then LAN Peru. Loza joined the company as legal assistant for the legal and compliance department in 2010 and later was appointed as head of aviation and regulatory law in 2015, becoming the youngest legal chief in the department at the time. Soon after she joined Proetica, a non-governmental organisation based in Lima, as the Peruvian Chapter of Transparency International, the global coalition against corruption. ‘I must say that all my professional experience helped me to be a well-rounded attorney, capable of assuming a general counsel position at my age, in major company such as Avianca’, she says. Since the beginning of her career, Loza has been trusted with sophisticated transactions, including negotiations with international partners, where she had to demonstrate clear thinking and the ability to find solutions while representing Peru’s subsidiary interest. ‘Understanding different cultures was the first test to pass and the most important skill to learn in order to know how international transactions work’, explains Loza. Managing a team of legal trainees has also proved to be an excellent experience as it helped develop her soft and personal skills, something she puts into practice by consistently instilling in them enthusiasm, leadership, professionalism and passion for the company.