María Iberzábal Murphy

María Iberzábal Murphy (born 1986 or 1987) is an Argentine lawyer, academic and politician, Legal and Technical Secretary of the President of Argentina since 2025. She previously served as head of the Secretariat for Strategic Regulatory Planning between 2024 and 2025 and other senior government positions during Mauricio Macri's presidency.

Early life Iberzábal graduated with a law degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (UCA) and obtained a master's degree in administrative law from Austral University. She began working at the law firm Marval, O'Farrell & Mairal in 2009 and at the law firm Estudio Cassagne Abogados in 2010, to later join Estudio Richards, Cardinal, Tutzer, Zabala & Zaefferer in 2015 as a senior lawyer in administrative law. In that role, she was responsible for drafting laws such as the Basic Law, the Single Paper Ballot Law, the suspension of primary elections, as well as the preparation of presidential vetoes and the latest presidential decree for an agreement with the IMF, the structural reform of the Customs Revenue and Control Agency (ARCA), among others. She also worked on the project that sought to eliminate the crime of femicide and repeal laws such as the one that granted quotas to transgender people.