Claudio Peguero is a retired Major General of the Dominican Republic's National Police, with a 37-year career and over 23 years of specialized experience in cybercrime investigation and cybersecurity. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering from the Santo Domingo Technological Institute (INTEC), a Master's in e-Commerce from APEC University, and a Master's in Forensic Computing & Cybercrime Investigation from University College Dublin, Ireland.
He founded the Cybercrime Investigation Division of the National Department of Investigations (DNI) in 2003 and the High-Tech Crimes Investigation Department (DICAT) of the National Police in 2004. He served on the commission that drafted Law 53-07 against High-Tech Crimes and on the national team that led the Dominican Republic's ratification of the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime in 2013.
Since 2013, he has been the Dominican Republic's representative to the Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY) of the Council of Europe, serving as an elected Bureau member for two consecutive terms (2014–2018) and as a member of the drafting group for the Second Additional Protocol. In May 2021, he was elected Vice-Chair — currently serving as interim Chair — of the UN Ad-Hoc Committee drafting the new Hanoi Convention on Cybercrime, representing GRULAC. In October 2022, he was appointed Chair of INTERPOL's Cyber Americas Working Group.
Currently serving as Ambassador for Cyber Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he leads the country's delegations to the UN Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) and the OAS Working Group on Confidence-Building Measures in Cyberspace, of which he is also Chair. He is a faculty member of the Cybersecurity Master's program at INTEC and has published articles on national security, artificial intelligence, and cybercrime.