Lourdes Venes
Attorney, President, Inter-American Bar Association, D.C. Chapter
Ms. Lourdes Venes is an attorney and president of the Washington, D.C., chapter of the Inter-American Bar Association. Her previous professional roles include serving on the Board of Directors and Development Committee at Airline Ambassadors International. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, the New York State Bar, and the Lima, Peru Bar. As former chief of staff to the Peruvian Minister of Labor and Promotion of Employment, Venes was responsible for the establishment of a government entity to manage human resources and led a team to design new civil service legislation. Early in her career, Venes served as the Peruvian National Ombudsman’s chief of staff, as a law clerk to the justices of the Peruvian Supreme Court, and was a legal advisor to the president of the Justice Commission of the Peruvian National Congress.
