María de los Ángeles Estrada is a lawyer based in Mexico and holds a Master of International Law from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Her main areas of specialization include anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, kleptocracy, whistleblower protection, government transparency, and foreign anti-bribery frameworks.
She currently leads the Initiative for Transparency, Anti-Corruption and Digitalization, an independent project aimed at strengthening public, private, and civil-society governance through integrity and transparency policies.
She also serves as a Senior Advisor to the National Whistleblower Center in Washington, D.C. From 2021 to 2024, she was a member of the Selection Committee of Mexico’s Citizen Participation Committee for the National Anti-Corruption System.
María has collaborated on international programs such as the U.S. Government’s Merida Initiative under INL leadership, where she served as a Culture of Lawfulness specialist for Pillar IV: Building Stronger and More Resilient Communities.
She is co-creator of the citizen reporting system #DenunciaCorrupciónCoronavirus, a public accountability tool designed to report corruption in the health sector during the COVID-19 pandemic, project recognized at the Paris Peace Forum 2020. She has also served as a public official in Mexico’s federal and Mexico City freedom-of-information institutions.
In academia, she teaches at the Anti-Corruption Institute of Colombia and has delivered courses on transparency, administrative law, and international anti-corruption legislation at Tecnológico de Monterrey, El Colegio de México, and the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM).
She is the author of several publications, most recently “Defining, Measuring, and Improving Integrity in the Media. A Proposal,” published in 2025 in the Accountability Review of the University of Guadalajara.
She is a member of the Anti-Corruption Commission of the World Compliance Association – Mexico Chapter.