José Antonio Gaspar Candia, General Legal Director

Master in Laws from the Columbia Law School (New York, United States), and a lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Mr. Gaspar joined the Commission in 2014 as Securities Prosecutor of the former Superintendency of Securities and Insurance (the current Financial Market Commission). Since 2017, he headed the CMF's Legal Area and held this position until being appointed as the institution's General Legal Director in March 2021. Prior to joining the Commission, he was a partner at the Noguera, Larraín & Dulanto law firm, as well as an international associate at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, New York.

In the academic field, Mr. Gaspar has been and is an undergraduate and graduate professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Universidad Diego Portales, among others. He has also authored several articles in his field of expertise.