In America
3 countries are part of the Network for integrity.
National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Personal Data Protection – INAI
Mexico
Creation date : 2003
Number of employees : 696
The National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Personal Data Protection (INAI) is an autonomous constitutional body responsible for upholding the right to access to public information held by any authority, entity, body or agency belonging to the executive, legislative and judicial branches, as well as by any individual, moral person or labor union that receives and spends public money or performs acts of authority at the federal level. The INAI is also in charge of upholding the right to protection of personal data held by the public and the private sectors.
Adrián Alcalá Méndez
Commissioner President
He has a Law degree, a Master in Amparo and a Doctorate in Law. He has been a speaker, panelist and columnist on topics of the right of access to information and personal data protection.
He works as a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Likewise, he has been a teacher on transparency and access to information in several diploma courses, programs and workshops, as well as an exhibitor and speaker at both national and international events since 2009. In 2011, he was named Proprietary Advisor of the Institute for Transparency and Access to Public Information of the State of Baja California; Being the first President Councilor, he was later elected Coordinator of the Northern Regional Assembly of the then Mexican Conference for Access to Public Information.
From 2014 to 2020 he was appointed as Secretary of Access to Information. Likewise, he was appointed Commissioner of the National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Personal Data Protection (INAI) for the period from November 18th, 2020 to November 17th, 2027. He is currently President Commissioner of the INAI for the period 2023 – 2026. He is simultaneously an external member of the Permanent Seminar on Open Government of the Autonomous University of Tlaxcala.
