Lawyer, graduated Law at FGV in 2015. Master in Public Health from UERJ (2017), studying the interface between innovation, intellectual property and access to medicines policies in Brazil. Grantee of the Fundación Botín Programme for the Public Interest in Latin America (2013). Researcher in the Fiocruz and Shuttleworth Foundation project on intellectual property and access to medicines (2017). National Coordinator of the NGO Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (2013-2016). Certified Graphic Designer from the Istituto Europeo di Design (2018). Author of “O que é Creative Commons? Novos modelos de direito autoral em um mundo mais criativo“. Currently, researcher in the CyberBRICS project at FGV’s Center for Technology and Society.
Luca Belli
Professor at FGV Law School, Head of the Center for Technology and Society at FGV
Luca Belli
I am Professor of “Internet Governance and Regulation” and “Data Protection Regulations” at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School, where I also head the Center for Technology and Society and the CyberBRICS project, and I am Associated Researcher at the Centre de Droit Public Comparé of Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas. I am also Member of the Board of the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) and member of the Programming Committee of the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conferences (CPDP).
My work is at the interface of law and technology and I focus primarily on Internet access, data protection and digital platform regulations, and digital policy in the BRICS countries. I enjoy developing multistakeholder partnerships to analyse existing challenges and put forward creative solutions.
Before joining FGV, I worked as an agent for the Council of Europe (CoE) Internet Governance Unit and served as a Network Neutrality Expert for the CoE. Besides working for the Council of Europe, over the past decade I have worked and have been consulted by various international organisations and national regulators, including the International Telecommunications Union, the Secretariat of the Internet Governance Forum, the Internet Society and the French Telecoms Regulators. I have coordinated several projects dedicated to digital policy and Internet governance, producing research outputs in English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, amongst which “De la gouvernance à la régulation de l’Internet” (Berger-Levrault, 2016); the “Net Neutrality Compendium” (Springer, 2016); “Community Networks: the Internet by the People, for the People” and “Platform Regulations: How Platforms are Regulated and How They Regulate Us” (FGV, 2017); “The Community Network Manual” (FGV-ITU-ISOC, 2018) and “Governança e Regulações da Internet na América Latina” (FGV 2019).
The majority of my research is in open access and have been i.a. quoted by the Organization of American States Report on Freedom of Expression and the Internet (2013); used by the CoE to elaborate the Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers on Network Neutrality (2016); featured in the French Telecoms Regulator (ARCEP) Report on the State of the Internet (2018), and published or quoted by various media outlets, including Le Monde, BBC, The Hill, China Today, O Globo, El Pais and La Stampa.
Nicolo Zingales
Professor at FGV Law School and Associated Scholar at Stanford CIS
Nicolo Zingales
Nicolo Zingales is Professor of Information Law and Regulation at the law school of the Fundação Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro, and coordinator of its E-commerce research group. Fascinated by the interaction of law, technology and markets, he researches on a range of issues revolving around the roles and responsibilities of digital platforms and intermediaries in the online ecosystem. He published several articles in scientific journals primarily on competition law, intermediary liability, Internet governance and data protection law, including most recently ‘Platform value(s): A multidimensional framework for online responsibility’ (2020) Computer Security and Law Review; BRICS academic report on Digital Era Competition Law: A BRICS Perspective (2019, BRICS Competition Centre); ‘Antitrust intent in an age of algorithmic nudging’ (2019) Journal of Antitrust Enforcement; ‘Data protection considerations in competition analysis: funnel or straitjacket for innovation?’, in P. Nihoul and P. Van Cleynenbreugel, The Role of Innovation in Competition Analysis (Edward Elgar, 2018); ‘Between a Rock and Two Hard Places: WhatsApp at the Crossroad of Competition, Data Protection and Consumer Law’ (2017) Computer Law & Security Review; Platform Regulations: How Platforms Are Regulated and How They Regulate Us (FGV Press, 2017); and ‘The Legal Framework for SEP Disputes in the EU Post-Huawei: Whither Harmonization?’ (2017) Yearbook of European Law.
His research has been cited, among others, by the UN Special Rapporteur for the Protection and Promotion of Freedom of Opinion and Expression, the UK House of Lords, and the European Parliament. He is founder and co-chair of the Internet Governance Forum’s Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility, a founding member of the MyData Global Network and lead of its Brazilian Hub. He is also currently a Research Associate at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society and an Extramural Fellow at the Tilburg Law and Economics Center. Prior to establishing his academic home at FGV, he worked for three years in the United Kingdom (University of Leeds and University of Sussex), and for two years in the Netherlands (Tilburg Law School). He held visiting appointments at the law schools of the University of Western Australia, the Graduate Institute of Geneva, New York University, Harvard University, and at the Max Planck Institute for Competition and Innovation. He holds a JD from the University of Bologna and a PhD in international law and economics from Bocconi University (2013).
Paul de Hert
Professor of the Law and Criminology Faculty at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Paul de Hert
Paul De Hert is professor of law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
He is the Director of the research group on Fundamental Rights and Constitutionalism (FRC) and senior member of the research group on Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS). Paul De Hert is also associated-professor Law and Technology at the Tilburg Institute for Law and Technology (TILT). The bulk of his work is devoted, but not limited, to criminal law and technology & privacy law. At Brussels, Paul De Hert holds the chair of ‘Criminal Law’, ‘International and European Criminal Law’ and ‘Historical introduction to eight major constitutional systems’. In the past he has held the chair of ‘Human Rights’, ‘Legal theory’ and ‘Constitutional criminal law’.
Rosamunde Van Brakel
Professor and researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel LSTS (BE)
Rosamunde Van Brakel
Research professor at the Law, Science, Technology & Society research group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel specialised in surveillance and crime control. She is currently coordinating the VUB Research Chair in Surveillance Studies. Her main research focuses on the governance of crime control and surveillance. She is a director of the annual international Conference Computers, Privacy and Data Protection and is co-founder and executive director of the LSTS-spin-off Privacy Salon.
Dara Hallinan
CPDP Brussels, FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure
Dara Halinan
He studied law at the University of Birmingham in England and at the University of Bayreuth in Germany and completed a Master’s in Human Rights and Democracy in Italy and Estonia. From 2011, he worked at Fraunhofer ISI before moving to FIZ in 2016 . The focus of his work is the interaction between new technologies – particularly ICT and biotechnologies – law and society. He is writing his PhD on ‘The Role of Data Protection Law in Protecting Genetic Privacy in Research Biobanking’ at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium.