Mapuche lawyer Expert in Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and International Cooperation
Works on UNDRIP implementation, Free Prior and Informed Consent, and the UN mechanisms — so indigenous peoples' rights are honored in practice, not just on paper.
Councils, fellowships & affiliations
UN · OHCHR
Indigenous Fellow · Business & Human Rights Forum, Geneva
One Young World
Indigenous Advisory Circle
Codelco
Expert Advisory Council · Indigenous Peoples · 2025
Melton Foundation
Fellow · Global Solvers Accelerator · 2024
The Possibilists
Global Council
Changemaker x Change
Fellow · Global network of young leaders
I — Analysis
Indigenous policy · International law
Analysis with a stance: UN mechanisms, UNDRIP implementation, and indigenous policy in Latin America. One peer-reviewed academic publication, with new essays in preparation.
International human rights standards applied to the situation of the Mapuche people after the Catrillanca case. Co-authored with Margarita Calfío Montalva and Verónica Figueroa Huencho. (In Spanish.)
Anuario de Derechos Humanos · U. of Chile · 2019
Read →Indigenous self-determination requires both legal recognition and economic autonomy: why indigenous peoples need their own institutions and enterprises, not only dependence on the state.
La Tercera · Opinion · 2021 · ES
Read →A review of the mandate of the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the state of implementation of the international instrument in the region.
ES · EN · 2026
The risks and opportunities of AI for indigenous peoples through the UNDRIP framework: data, bias, technological sovereignty, and the right to digital self-determination.
ES · EN · 2026
A comparative review of FPIC implementation in the region, focusing on the gaps between the international standard and national practices.
EN · 2026
In the press
Areas of specialization
Each front grows from the same principle: making indigenous peoples' rights real in practice, not just on paper.
UNDRIP, ILO Convention 169, and the UN mechanisms as an applicable legal framework. FPIC as a collective right and as a process: international standards, comparative jurisprudence, and design of consent processes with intercultural legitimacy for States and companies.
Intercultural Bridges Methodology: know, reconcile, trust, build. From the language of confrontation to the transformation of conflicts between indigenous peoples, States, and companies. Certified socio-environmental and intercultural mediator.
Self-governance and economic development with identity. Social entrepreneurship models and the strengthening of indigenous enterprises that sustain community autonomy without assimilation.
The intersection of AI and the collective rights of indigenous peoples: data sovereignty, algorithmic bias, digital cultural heritage, and AI governance through the lens of UNDRIP. The Impacto Indígena AI project.
II — Legacy
Koñwepang Lineage · 1740 → present
Build indigenous institutions and forge alliances without assimilation. From Lemunahuel to today, the strategy of the küpalme has not changed — only the tools.
“Puma of the forest.” Patriarch of the lineage. Lonko of peace on the Chol Chol river basin; root of a lineage that led with dialogue first.
The most influential Mapuche politician in contemporary Chilean history. First indigenous minister in the history of Chile (Lands and Colonization, 1952). Three-term congressman. Founded the Corporación Araucana (1938). First speech in Mapudungun in Congress (1950).
Grandfather. Lonko and guardian of mapuche feyentun. Passed on the history of the küpalme and asked that his grandson carry the patriarch's name, Lemunahuel.
Carries the patriarch's name. Mapuche lawyer. Like his forebears, he chose to build his own institutions — and works to make indigenous peoples' rights real in practice, not just on paper. UN, UNDRIP, AI.
The eighth generation, today
Mapuche lawyer. JD (Universidad Católica de Temuco), LLM in Regulatory Law (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), and a Postgraduate Certificate in Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and International Cooperation (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, FILAC scholarship). Certified socio-environmental and intercultural mediator. Co-founder of Fundación KM.
III — Ecosystem
Koñwepang · Millakir
conuepanmillaquir.cl
→ Artificial Intelligenceimpactoindigena.ai
→@fundacionkm
—Indigenous peoples are not an obstacle to development. They are its oldest source of legitimacy.
IV — Contact
For government agencies, international cooperation bodies, academic institutions, and United Nations organizations — and for indigenous peoples' own organizations.
