Ricardo Ferrer Picado

About Ricardo Ferrer

Ricardo Ferrer Picado is a lawyer with a degree from the UNLP (National University of La Plata) and a master’s degree in National Strategic Intelligence from the UNLP. He is a specialist in Asia-Pacific from the UNLP, and holds a diploma from the Complutense University of Madrid in International Development Cooperation and Electronic State Administration. He is a graduate of the National Defense University (USA) and the University of Strasbourg (France) in Humanitarian Criminal Law.

He is a professor at the UNLP, the UBA (National University of Buenos Aires), UCASAL (Catholic University of Salta), the UAI (Argentine University Institute), and USP (University of São Paulo).

He recently stepped down from his position as National Director of Criminal Intelligence, which he held from 2016 to 2020 and from 2023 to 2025. He earned recognition and became a leading figure in Argentine intelligence for his merits in creating plans to reduce crime in border areas, reactivating and leading the Tripartite Command of the Triple Border, and reducing homicides in Rosario and surrounding areas by 76 percent. He also completed the first Anti-Terrorist Mission Center in Latin America (CMA). He has served as National Security Advisor to the Argentine Republic.

A specialist in the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he has participated in various OAS missions as an observer. From 2015 to 2019, he currently serves as the National Director of Criminal Intelligence, leading the criminal intelligence system and standing out for his public-private cooperation and federal deployment of information fusion centers.

Ferrer Picado led the only Argentine intergovernmental and interagency deployment in Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria with the Syrian Humanitarian Plan. He has also been cited as a leading expert on the subject by several organizations for his study of the authoritarian interference of China, Russia, and Iran in Latin America.