Bio
Carolina Rossini is an internationally recognized expert in the field of technology policy and law. She has more than 25 years of experience and has worked in the private, non-profit and academic sectors, and as an advisor to various governments, policy makers and international organizations. She is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Council on the Future of Technology Policy (mandate 2023–2025). She was a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (2016–2022) and continues to be active in that community. She is the co-founder and director of partnerships and research at the Datasphere Initiative.
Carolina is a lawyer and a seasoned public speaker. She has a J.D. from the University of São Paulo in Brazil, an M.B.A. from Instituto de Empresa in Spain, an M.A. in international economic relations from the State University of Campinas/State University of São Paulo in Brazil; and a L.L.M. in intellectual property from Boston University. She has completed various certificate courses, including a leadership certificate from Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.
She has worked for companies such as Telefónica and Facebook, and various non-profits, including Public Knowledge, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Wikimedia Foundation. She worked for Yochai Benkler as a three-year fellow and project coordinator at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. As a consultant, she served clients including the Organization of American States Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, the US State Department, the Open Society Foundations, Duco Experts, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Development Programme, the Alliance for Affordable Internet, Freedom House, the Ford Foundation and Canada’s International Development Research Centre.
She is the co-founder of and serves as a senior advisor to Portulans Institute, where she was the CEO for its two first years, and is a board member of InternetLab (Brazil), Derechos Digitales (Chile), iamtheCODE (global) and Instituto EducaDigital (Brazil). She was a founding advisor to Global Partners Digital (United Kingdom), the Lighthouse Collective (United States) and the Open Knowledge Foundation (Brazil).