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Ana Margarita Ríos-Farjat is a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Mexico [2019-2025]. During her tenure on the bench, she distinguished herself by her unwavering independence and profound commitment to the advancement of human rights. Her judicial philosophy emphasized the protection of children, women, individuals with disabilities, and victims of gross human rights abuses. Additionally, consistently supported environmental rights, consumer protection, tax responsibility and the rights of banking service users. While at the Supreme Court, she also headed a small team responsible for developing the pioneering artificial intelligence tool, Sor Juana, designed to elucidate decisions of the Mexican Supreme Court and transform how such rulings are communicated to the public. This innovative AI solution was honored with two prestigious national awards: one from the Federal Telecommunications Institute and another from the National Institute for Access to Information. Prior to her appointment as a constitutional judge, Ms. Ríos Farjat served as the head of Mexico's Tax Administration Service (SAT) in 2019. During her tenure, she led efforts to investigate tax evasion and championed initiatives aimed at enhancing tax education, promoting transparency and formalization, ensuring equitable tax treatment, and eliminating unwarranted tax forgiveness. Before her career in public service, Ms. Ríos Farjat had already over two decades of professional practice, cultivating a breadth of expertise across civil, commercial, administrative and transnational litigation and foreign judgments. Her career encompasses sophisticated amparo proceedings, civil and commercial liability matters, product liability disputes, collections, complex litigation and bankruptcy and commercial insolvency proceedings. She possesses valuable expertise in alternative dispute resolution methods, as well as in tax and financial law, and has provided specialized guidance to nonprofit organizations on matters of accountability. She has joined Holland & Knight LLP as a corporate lawyer and is a law professor at the University of Monterrey [UDEM] and in the doctoral program at the Mexican Institute of Strategic Studies in National Security and Defense [IMEESDN], and is author of many juridical essays in a variety of legal topics.