The World Fellows

Executive Director, Ciudadanos al Día

Beatriz Boza is the Founder and Executive Director of Ciudadanos al Día (CAD), a Peruvian NGO working to revolutionize the citizen-state relationship. CAD aims to make Peruvian citizens more informed, demanding, and engaged and the Peruvian government more transparent, efficient, and equitable. In addition to leading CAD, Boza is also a professor at Peru's Catholic University Law School and a member of the Board of Directors of Peru's Central Reserve Bank. She writes a weekly colum for the leading national newspaper, El Comercio. She also leads the Peruvian Lawyers Ethical and Professional Responsibility Standards Review Committee, which is redesigning the code of ethics for lawyers in Peru. Prior to founding CAD, Boza held numerous leadership positions in the government. She served as President of Indecopi, the Peruvian Competition, Consumer Protection and Intellectual Property Office; Chief of Staff to Peru's Minister of Finance; and Executive Director of Peru's Investment and Tourism Promotion Board. She also was the Chair of the Committee on Inter American Affairs at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.