Lola Aniyar de Castro (Venezuela)

Lola Aniyar de Castro is Doctor of Law, specialized in Penal Law and Criminology at the Universities of Rome and Paris. Professor for the Latinamerican Master's Degree in Criminology. Former Director at the Institute of Criminology at the University of Zulia (named after her) in Maracaibo, Venezuela, and Vice President of the International Society of Criminology for Latinamerica. She is now Vice President at the International Society of Social Defence and Human Criminal Police. She has been a Senator in the Venezuelan National Congress, first Venezuelan woman elected Governor of the Zulia State and a Venezuelan Diplomatic to the UNESCO. She has written several books and been honoured with awards of Distinguished Latinamerican Scholar, by the American Sociological Association.