Catalina Devandas Aguilar is a Costa Rican lawyer who served as the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities from 2014 until 2020.

She also worked for the World Bank and took part in the establishment of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities with the United Nations Secretariat.

[2][3] She has previously consulted for the World Bank and was part of the United Nations Secretariat that established the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

[4] In 2014, Aguilar was named the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

[5] During her time as Special Rapporteur, she traveled to multiple countries to determine the conditions of people with disabilities.