The President Luis Abinader appointed the lawyer and academic Aura Celeste Fernández Rodríguez as general manager of National Social Security Council (CNSS) by decree 541-25.
His arrival at this key organism occurs after an extensive career in the Public Administrationacademy and legal exercise, marked by the defense of the transparency and the ethical commitment.
A trajectory linked to institutionality
Fernández has occupied high -level positions in the administration of the Dominican State. He was a titular member of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) in two periods (1994-1997 and 2006-2010), where he integrated the contentious electoral chamber and coordinated the relationship with the electoral boards and political parties.
From that space he starred in public debates about the management of funds And he opposed salary incentives that he considered illegal, claiming audits and financial controls.
He directed the Support commissioner to the reform and modernization of Justice (1997–2000), with the range of Secretary of State, from where he coordinated the reform of civil, criminal and commercial codes, as well as judicial procedures.
Also coordinated the program of Public Defensea key piece in access to justice.
In parallel, he was general secretary of the National Penitentiary Commissionparticipated in the National Commission for Prevention and Fight against Domestic Violence and was co -author of the Draft of the Statute of the Public Ministry.
Also integrated the commission of jurists who worked the draft of the 2010 Constitution. Since 2004, she is an honorary president of the National Health Bioethics Council (Conabios), advisory body attached to the Public Health Ministry.
Formation and academic life
Its solid academic base begins with the title of Bachelor of Law Magna Cum Laude at the Catholic University Mother and Teacher (PUCMM) in 1980. Subsequently he studied the Master in International Studies at the Diplomatic School of Madrid and the Complutense University of Madrid (1984-1985).
There also completed the Doctorate in Public International Law and a Master in Human Rights (1986-1987).
Later he studied at University Pedagogy (UNICA, 1982-1983), Higher Education (UNIBE, 2002-2003) and in Bioethics at the Ramón Llull University of Barcelona, with specialization in Bioethics Applied to the clinical field (2019-2020).
Exercised the university teaching For more than two decades in institutions such as UCNE, PUCMM, UNPHU, UNIBE and UASD, providing subjects such as Public International LawHistory of international relations and electoral law.
She held academic positions as director of the Postgraduate Unit of Legal Sciences in UNIBE and director of the National School of the Public Ministry (2005-2006).
Legal exercise and arbitration
In the private sector, he has exercised as specialized lawyer In lands, civil, banking and family law. She was a lawyer of Dominican Popular Bankassociate of the firm Kaplan, Russin, Vecchi & Heredia Bonnetti, Legal Manager in Confisa Companies, Senior Socia of Guzmán Ariza, lawyers and consultants, and has served as referee and mediator in the Chamber of Commerce and production of Santo Domingo.
Recognition and public perception
Throughout his career, Celeste aura Fernández has received numerous awards, including the Merit Medal of the Dominican woman (2007) and the International Prize Simón Bolívar for democracy and human rights (2002).
She was also declared a meritorious daughter of San Francisco de Macorís and distinguished as a lawyer of the Americas by the Inter -American Lawyers Federation.
- Your public figure is associated with integrity and transparency. In 2020, more than 30 organizations of the Civil Society and the Business they supported their application to the Account Chamberhighlighting its “ethical and moral quality, sense of social responsibility and will for service.”
While he has been in the debates center, especially for his claims of transparency In the JCE, those episodes have consolidated their profile as Independent official and of beginning.
Personal life
She is married to the political leader Guillermo Morenopresident of the party Country alliancea link that is usually mentioned in the press, but has not eclipsed its own professional career In public service, academia and law.
In the 2020 elections he presented as a candidate for deputy for the constituency 1 of the National District for Alianza País, and as part of his campaign he made the commitment to renounce the “chest, the exemptions and all the privileges received by legislators.”
She is also the author of the book “My dreams are simple.”
