Our Law professor always wanted to serve Peru from PUCP, like her father, the renowned teacher César Delgado. Now, in the direction of the DARI, she will pour his more than 25 years of experience into international cooperation and foster links with foreign institutions. Likewise, it plans to provide better guidance to our students and teachers so that they can live internationalization experiences.
Our graduate and professor of the Department of Law Mag. María Antonieta Delgado Menéndez had been working as director of the Office of Cooperation and International Relations of the National Elections Jury. When she received the proposal to lead our Academic Office of Institutional Affairs (DARI in spanish), she did not hesitate and accepted immediately, as she has always wanted to contribute to Peru from the PUCP.
Since 1996 I have worked in the field of cooperation and international relations. I will put all my experience and academic work that I have built at the service of the PUCP, the training of our young people and Peru.”
Mag. María Antonieta Delgado Director of the Academic Office of Institutional Affairs.“Since 1996 I have worked in the field of cooperation and international relations. I will put all my experience and academic work that I have built at the service of the PUCP, the training of our young people and Peru,” highlights Delgado, who takes over the DARI in the period 2024-2027.
María Antonieta’s father, the remembered Dr. César Delgado Barreto, was a teacher in the area of international law at our house of studies. “From a very young age, I wanted to share what I knew with my classmates and, later, with the students. I always sought to teach and participate in University activities like my father,” says the director of DARI.
That PUCP DNA, inseparable from Marie Antoinette, reached a milestone in the summer of 1996, when she began teaching at our University. Currently, she has been teaching for 28 uninterrupted years and is an ordinary professor in the Academic Department of Law. His son, Milan, also studied Law and is a professor at the PUCP, like his twin sister, María del Carmen. “There are three generations of my family training in knowledge and application of international law, as well as values, at the PUCP,” highlights our teacher.
In order to better teach students, it is important to have both theoretical knowledge and the experience that is learned in daily practice. For this reason, Delgado has held important positions in the field of international development cooperation. Thus, she has been head of the International Technical Cooperation Office of the Judiciary, coordinator of the Procedural Discharge Program of the GIZ German Cooperation for International Development and member of the Multisector Coordination Committee of the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation.
The good relationships he has built with national and international institutions are part of his personal and professional brand. Likewise, our teacher emphasizes that her experience has made her capable of working in complex situations. “For me, the phrase ‘you can’t’ doesn’t exist, because you can always find a way. And even more so in the best university in Peru,” she highlights.
Delgado maintains that he will encourage her leadership to connect the PUCP with the world. “I want the DARI to be the bridge between the PUCP and international institutions, both in terms of education and the possibility of accessing and obtaining resources through the cooperation agencies of different countries,” she highlights.
“I will promote the DARI to be more open and guide, with great emphasis, the students and teachers so that they can access opportunities abroad, both careers, postgraduate courses, research stays and other types of exchange. In this way, we will strengthen the University’s relations with the country and the world,” Delgado indicates as one of the objectives of his management.
Our Law teacher will also promote internationalization at home, a line that DARI has been developing through initiatives, such as teaching courses in the COIL module and in English. In these first days in office, Marie Antoinette has been meeting with her DARI team, learning how this direction works and also talking with other units. “A lot can be done from DARI by being creative and making better use of our human resources. “I am excited to think about everything we will do,” she says with the enthusiasm that demonstrates his characteristic vocation for service.
María Antonieta Delgado Menéndez is a lawyer and has a master’s degree in Legal Research from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). Likewise, she is an associate professor of the Academic Department of Law of the PUCP. She has extensive experience and knowledge in the fields of private international law and international arbitration, as well as in the direction, management, technical assistance, coordination and implementation of projects and agreements with international cooperation.
