Carolina Rossini

Carolina is the Director of Public Interest Technology (PIT) Programs at the UMass PIT Initiative and a Professor of Practice. Besides teaching and conducting research, Carolina is leading the development of a graduate course on PIT.

Carolina Rossini is an internationally recognized expert in technology, policy, and law. With over 25 years of experience, having worked in the private, non-profit, and academic sectors, and advising various governments, philanthropic funders, and international multilateral organizations. She is a council member of the Think 20 advising the G20 (mandate 2024), of the World Economic Forum Global Council on the Future of Technology Policy (mandate 2023 to 2025), and was awarded a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader fellowship (2016 to 2022). She co-founded and directed two think tanks: the Datasphere Initiative and Portulans Institute. She was a law professor and founder and Director for the Law Clinical Program at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, in Rio de Janeiro (2004-2006). She is also a lecturer at Boston University Law School and a PIT Fellow at BU's Faculty of Computing & Data Science, supporting public interest technology projects.

She is a lawyer and seasoned public speaker, who is a JD from University of São Paulo, Brazil (2000), with the following Master’s degrees: MBA from IE University in Spain (2004) with a Telefonica awarded full scholarship, MA in International Economic Relations from Santiago Dantas – UNICAMP/UNESP, Brazil (2005), and a LL.M. in Intellectual Property, with a scholarship awarded by Boston University, USA (2008). She has various certificate courses, including Leadership from the Oxford Saïd Business School, UK, and Leadership for Racial Equity from Virginia University.

She has worked for companies such as Telefónica and Facebook, as well as various non-profits such as Public Knowledge (VP for International Policy), Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Wikimedia Foundation. She worked for Prof. Yochai Benkler as a 3-year fellow and Project Coordinator at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. As a consultant, she served clients including Co-Develop Fund, Open Society Foundations, DT Institute, the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression at the Organization of American States, the US State Department, Open Society Foundations, DUCO Experts, UNHCR, UNDP, Alliance for Affordable Internet, Freedom House, Ford Foundation, IDRC, and more.

She 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  (UK), and the Open Knowledge Foundation (Global and Brazil). She is based in Arlington, Massachusetts, and has lived in Brazil (her country of origin), Spain, and the USA.