Ronaldo Lemos

Ronaldo Lemos is a lawyer specializing in technology, intellectual property, media and public policy. He is the founder of the Institute of Technology and Society, a leading research center in Brazil. He was a Visiting Scholar at Oxford, Princeton, the MIT Media Lab and a Visiting Professor at the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). He co-created Brazil’s Internet Bill of Rights Law (2014) and Brazil’s National IoT Plan (2018), and served on the board of the Mozilla Foundation, Access Now and other non-profit organizations. Previously, Lemos was Vice-President of the Social Communication Council in the National Congress in Brazil. He writes weekly about law and technology for Folha de S. Paulo, one of Brazil’s most widely read newspapers.