Diego leads on operations at SBC. He has day-to-day responsibility for operational matters including external assurance activity. Diego has over 15 years’ experience tackling fundamental policy issues of societal importance – human rights, technologies, criminal justice, climate policy and corporate actors– working at the interface of policy and practice in Scotland, the EU and the UK.
He is passionate about fostering multi-disciplinary collaborations and cross-sector partnerships to co-create pathways for innovation that improve services, policy, and the law. Diego currently serves on a number of technology and biometrics expert groups, including on the Independent Advisory Group on Emerging Technologies in Policing. Diego also served on the Independent Advisory Group on the Use of Biometric Data in Scotland and the Scottish Government Forensic Data Working Group on Acquisition and Retention of DNA and Fingerprints.
Before joining SBC Diego led the policy and international areas at the Scottish Human Rights Commission. Diego has also worked as an independent expert for the European Commission’s TAIEX in a number of countries, including Bosnia & Herzegovina, Turkey and Azerbaijan. Previously, Diego held a lectureship in Law at the Robert Gordon University and worked with the former UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights, Prof. John Ruggie, at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
He has published widely on human rights, including on technology. Diego is a qualified lawyer in Colombia and worked as an in-house lawyer for a financial institution.