Karen Zavala Antunez

• Working on an educational project, related to the cultural heritage of Perú.
• Writing an academic paper on social networks, gender and music.

Provided legal advise to companies and persons, mainly on Administrative, Hydrocarbons and Civil Law.

• Designed an executed a ¨Main Communication Plan¨ including: a data base, containing information about governmental entities and authorities, corporations and other stakeholders; a brief procedure for kick off meetings and project´s scheduling.
• Elaborated a ¨Permitting Matrix¨ according to the construction and operation schedule, in collaboration with the technical and legal departments.
• Recruited and lead a work team for the elaboration and filing of all necessary documentation.

• Built and kept in good shape, business relationships between the company and authorities from the Peruvian Government (local, regional, national level) and also private entities, in order to facilitate the issuance of all the permits and authorizations necessary to build a 400 km gas pipeline.
• This job required very good social and communication skills, and also, the ability to engage the stakeholders, making them part of a whole: the biggest project ever executed in Perú, at that time.
• Aligned to the company´s business focus and Project´s Management Plan.
• Opened to acquire knowledge related to other disciplines, such as, but not limited to, environmental and social management, safety, engineering, construction and operation of hydrocarbon facilities.
• As all the project´s main heads were expats; and almost all of the received and produced documentation were written in English, speaking it fluently was mandatory.

• Planned and executed the project ¨Caral Cultural Heritage Property Management¨ that included the register of the lands and buffer zone of the Sacred City of Caral.
• In charge of negotiating and write agreements to allow publishing investigation results, capture and use of images, and any other content, related to the Sacred City, by national and international media, including NHK Japan, The History Channel, Peruvian and European magazines and newspapers.
• Provided legal advice, regarding to the application of national and international cultural regulations.
• Volunteered myself to provide information, about visiting trips to foreigners.

• Evaluated the legal and technical matters, related to the community trade and intellectual property controversies, among country members, and elaborated draft resolutions.
• Selected relevant information and wrote reports for the Andean Ministers´ meetings.
• Facilitated timely resolution of legal matters by preparing and organizing essential documents.
• Enhanced office productivity by implementing efficient document management systems for easy retrieval and storage.