Participant/carolina-rossini

Carolina Rossini was the Coordinator of Legal Practice and International Partnerships at the Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School (FGV DIREITO RIO) and Lead of Projects in the Center for Technology & Society at the same University, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the past two years. She also, during this period, worked as a professor in the field of Intellectual Property and Internet Law, and as a consultant for Intellectual Property in Ford Foundation Brazil.

Mrs. Rossini earned an MBA in E-Business from Instituto de Empresas de Madri, Spain, and a Master in International Negotiations from the joint Program from UNICAMP/UNESP/PUCSP, São Paulo, Brazil. Carolina is a lawyer graduated from Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and studied International Relations in PUCSP/Brazil.

Currently, Carolina is a researcher at Diplo Foundation Internet Governance Program and is pursuing her Master in Law from Boston University, with focus in Intellectual Property and Innovation Policy.

Since 2000, Carolina is an active member of the A2K, cyber law and the FOSS community in Brazil, co-authoring studies such as the Regulation of Spam in Brazil a study commissioned by the Brazilian Internet Committee and accessible at http://www.cgi.br/publicacoes/documentacao/ct-spam-EstudoSpamCGIFGVversaofinal.pdf

Before that, Carolina worked in Telefonica Telecom Group as a in-house lawyer.

She can be reached at carolina.rossini@gmail.com

Main interests: IP policy, public interest and A2K; Net Neutrality; peer production

Blog at http://innovationdeveloper.blogspot.com/