Andrea Villanueva Villarreal, LL.M. (Georgetown) holds a law degree (J.D. equivalent) from the Andrea Villanueva Villarreal, LL.M. (Georgetown) Andrea holds a Law Degree (J.D. equivalent)
from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City with honors, a post-graduate degree in
International Affairs from the Vienna Diplomatic Academy, in Vienna, Austria, and an LL.M. in
International Law from Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C.
She has specialised in energy matters and has most recently obtained the Diploma on Energy from
the Escuela Libre de Derecho and has been a lecturer on the Legal Aspects of the Energy Reform at
the Universidad del Medio Ambiente.
She has a broad international experience working in both the private and public sectors, having
worked in corporate law and international tax planning with several professional services firms in
Mexico and in New York City; and in financial and anti-money laundering regulatory and
international policy issues in the World Bank in Washington, D.C.
Andrea also has commercial and business development experience having been managing director
of an important fiduciary services company in Mexico. She has worked in public policy as consultant
of an important public strategy firm and in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where she was part of the
team involved in the economic agenda for the COP 16 related to energy and the CO2 emissions
reduction commitments for Mexico.
She has over the past years been focused in the power sector and was involved with the energy
practice at EY Mexico, in the review and recommendations for the energy reform. Andrea started
the energy practice at CLG-Abogados and was visiting attorney for the energy program of the
Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C. She has been Of Counsel for the energy practice
at Wöss & Partners, a law firm specialised in arbitration and infrastructure and is currently senior
legal counsel for the Corporate Power Generation Unit at Comisión Federal de Electricidad, the
Mexican power utility, and one of its power generation subsidiaries.
Andrea is part of several women in energy groups and is a member of VOZ EXPERTA, an initiative
that makes women experts visible in predominantly male strategic sectors in Mexico.
She has written several articles among which most recently are: El Nuevo Modelo de Contratación
de Líneas de Transmisión, Oportunidades relacionadas a proyectos de transmisión próximos a
licitarse, publicados en el PRODESEN 2018-2032 and Integración eléctrica entre México y Estados
Unidos, published in the specialised magazine Energía a Debate, and which was one of 10 of the
most read articles in 2017 https://www.energiaadebate.com/blog/2721/, and is authoring collaborator of two World Bank policy case studies: “The US-Guatemala Remittance Corridor: Leveraging towards Greater Access to Financial Services” and “The US-Mexico Remittance Corridor: On Shifting from Informal to Formal Transfer Systems”.