Yara Esquivel Soto worked as a Public Prosecutor at the Costa Rican Office of Economic and Corruption related Crimes since the year 2001, where she was in charge of the investigation and trial of several high profile corruption cases involving high-ranking government officials and private entrepreneurs. In October 2006, she took a position as a regional investigator in the Office of Internal Oversight Services of the United Nations and moved to Kenya, where she was posted for one year to investigate fraud, corruption and malfeasance within the organization, specifically in the various Peace Keeping Missions operating in the African continent.

Ms. Esquivel Soto has participated in several conferences and training courses around the world with emphasis in corruption. She participated in the 6th Course in Corruption Control in Criminal Justice in Japan, hosted by the United Nations Far East and Asia Institute, as well as several other courses in money laundering and other legal technicalities of this kind of activity. In January 2006, she participated in the Postgraduate Specialist Program on Investigation and Evidence in the Criminal Process at the Universidad Castilla La Mancha in Spain. She is soon to pursue her Master’s Degree at Oxford University in the field of International Human Rights Law. She is also part of the Corruption Hunter Network established and led by NORAD, an organization which is part of the Norwegian Government, that provides a common ground for prosecutors and investigators specialized in corruption to discuss matters regarding this subject.