Natalia Oropeza
Global Chief Cybersecurity Officer and Chief Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Officer
Siemens AG
Ms. Oropeza is an experienced manager in the area of information technology, whose career includes several leadership roles. She was born in Puebla, where she obtained an electronic engineering degree at the Universidad de las Americas Puebla.
She began her career at Volkswagen de Mexico and undertook several different roles, including PBX, Communication Specialist, and Network Team Leader for Gedas Mexico. In 1997, Ms. Oropeza took on her first international assignment as a Network Project Manager at the headquarters of Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Germany. During her career at VW Group, she was promoted to Chief Information Security Officer for the entire Volkswagen Group and led the company’s largest IT transformational program.
Currently, as Global Chief Cybersecurity Officer at Siemens, Ms. Oropeza leads a team of more than 1,300 cybersecurity experts. Her current position combines topics such as protecting infrastructure (IT/OT), protecting products, solutions, and services, as well as enabling cybersecurity services to be offered to Siemens customers. Since 2023, Natalia Oropeza has been the Chairwoman of the Charter of Trust, leading efforts to promote cybersecurity and digital trust on a global scale.
In addition to her extensive experience in information technology, she holds several IT certifications, including ITIL, and is a graduate of the Singularity Executive Program from the Singularity University in California, USA. To complement her achievements in the area of information technology, she obtained academic qualifications in management including an MBA in finance and the upper management certification from the European School of Management.
Drawing on her broad international working experience and as a woman in technology, Ms. Oropeza values diversity as the inclusion and collaboration of different thinking, backgrounds, and experiences. Besides her cybersecurity responsibilities at Siemens, she also holds the role of Chief Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Officer. She champions all forms of diversity and leads the global effort to make Siemens an even more inclusive workplace, where every individual feels they belong and has equal opportunities to succeed.
