Maria J. Espona

Maria J. Espona, Biologist (1994), Master in Terrorism Studies (2013) and Doctor in Criminology (2019). She is an expert in the WMD field, especially in the CBW arena and export control. She has several publications on those topics. She teaches in universities in Argentina, Georgia, and Peru on information quality, CBRN export control, dual-use, and responsible use of data.

She also participates as SME in several Health Security Partners, Coalescion and CRDF Global projects on biorisk management and export control, among other topics, in Latin America and other regions. She also participates in EU projects on export controls.

She holds several awards because of her work on Information Quality and her leadership. Since 2021, CDO Ambassador to Argentina from CDOIQ, isCDO and CDO Magazine.

She is the Director ArgIQ, Argentina Information Quality.