Juan Pablo Guerrero joined IBP in May 2014 as the network director of the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency. Administratively based at IBP, GIFT is an action network integrated by ministries of finance, civil society organizations and international financial institutions, to advance fiscal transparency, inclusive public participation and accountability. Guerrero was founding Commissioner of the Federal Institute for Access to Information & Data Protection in Mexico (2002-2009), where he subsequently was Secretary General (2013-14). Between 2009 and 2013, he was the manager of the Mentoring Governments Program at IBP. Before 2003, he was a university professor at the CIDE in Mexico (1994-2003). He started his career as a news reporter and correspondent in Washington & Paris, where he studied master and PhD programs in public policy (SAIS-Johns Hopkins University and Sciences-Po).