International Digital Rights/Participants Bios

Carolina Rossini

Carolina Rossini is a Brazilian attorney focused on Internet and IP law and policy, cooperation theory, international IP negotiations, and open licensing. She is a member of the IP Global Agenda Council for the World Economic Forum, a board member of the Brazilian Internet Institute, and the founder of OER-Brazil, which works with policymakers to enact open access and open educational resource polices in Brazil and beyond. Rossini previously was a Fellow at the Berkman Center at Harvard University coordinating the Industrial Cooperation Project. She also worked with GPOPAI on open innovation strategies at the University of Sao Paulo, and was an IP professor at FGV Law School (CTS) and part of Creative Commons Brazil. In San Francisco, Carolina worked for the Wikimedia Foundation shaping strategies to increase community engagement and foundation presence in Brazil. Her first six years out of law school were spent working, in Brazil and Spain, as an in-house transactional telecom and internet policy lawyer for Terra Networks, the ISP of Telefonica. Carolina has an LLM in Intellectual Property from Boston University (USA), a MBA from Instituto de Empresas (Spain), a Master Degree in International Negotiations from UNESCP-UNICAMP (Brazil) and a Bachelors degree in Law (JD) from University of Sao Paulo (Brazil).

Maira Sutton

Francisco Javier Vera Hott

Francisco is a Chilean lawyer who works as the vicepresident ONG Derechos Digitales (Digital Rights NGO) since 2008, holding a JD from the Universidad de Chile. He is mainly focused in technological regulation policy, advising the Librarians Union, Chilean Public Libraries among other institutions. Also, he has attended several congressional hearings regarding copyright and privacy rights. you can contact him trough his email francisco (at) derechosdigitales.org and his twitter account @panchovera. More info on his linkedin profile and the organization website

Jon Lawrence

Jon is the Executive Officer of Electronic Frontiers Australia (www.efa.org.au), and is also a board member of the Internet Society of Australia (www.internetsociety.org.au). Electronic Frontiers Australia was founded in 1994 and is an independent, non-profit civil liberties advocacy group focused on the digital world. Jon is based in Melbourne and has been working in the IT/Internet industry for over 15 years. He has broad commercial and policy experience in the domain name and web hosting industries across Australia, Europe and the US. His interests include internet governance, domain name policy issues, freedom of speech in the online context, copyright law reform and bridging the digital divide. He recently completed a Master of International Relations degree at the University of Melbourne.

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