Nataly Ponce Chauca is a Peruvian lawyer with a Master’s degree in Public Policy and Government from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and a Master’s degree in Latin American Studies (OAS international scholarship) from the Pontifical Javeriana University of Colombia. She is an alumna of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the U.S. Department of State.

She has more than 25 years of experience in international justice reform projects in over 10 countries across the Americas. She has served as an evaluator of international projects, including: the final performance evaluation of the Cooperation Alliance for the Protection of Children and Adolescents (CPC Alliance – human trafficking) (EnCompass – U.S. Department of State); a study on citizen engagement to capitalize on learning, strengthen integrity in government, and combat corruption (Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for Sustainability – MELS, USAID); and the study “Criminal Justice System in Environmental Matters in Peru: Analysis and Recommendations to Strengthen the Judicial System Against Illegal Logging and Mining” (CAMRIS International Evaluations – USAID Peru).

She has worked as an international consultant for the Organization of American States (OAS) evaluating the Inter-American Judicial Facilitators Program (IPJF) in six Central American countries, and for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) designing its 2017–2021 Strategic Plan. She has also served as a consultant for international organizations providing technical assistance on violence, crime, organized crime, and complex criminal offenses (UNDP, UNODC, CEJA, IDB – Public Prosecutor’s Office of Guatemala, Checchi, among others). She was a member of the independent experts’ mission to assess social, environmental, and human rights impacts in Honduras (FMO).

She previously served as Vice Minister of Public Security at the Ministry of the Interior, and as Vice Minister for Women at the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations in Peru.

She served as Deputy Chief of Party for the Pro-Integrity and Criminal Procedure Code project with an emphasis on corruption cases (Tetra Tech Inc. – USAID), and as Training Coordinator for the Anti-Corruption Threshold Program (ICITAP – U.S. Department of Justice – USAID).

She has also worked as a researcher at the Special Investigations Unit of Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and at the Ad Hoc Commission responsible for evaluating and proposing pardons for individuals unjustly convicted or prosecuted for terrorism. She served as a former commissioner in the Office of the Deputy Ombudsperson for Human Rights at the Ombudsman’s Office of Peru.

At CEJA, she served as an intern (through an international competitive process), staff member, and international consultant, working on projects related to judicial reforms and access to justice, management models, prosecution of complex crimes, pretrial detention, regional judicial data analysis and transparency, among other areas.

She has authored publications and studies on criminal procedural reform, organized crime, prosecution of complex crimes, public security, justice and management, gender, and related topics. She has also served as a postgraduate lecturer at the School of Government of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.