About the IAPP

Dirceu Santa Rosa has over 20 years’ experience as an intellectual property and technology lawyer. Having received an LL.M in Intellectual Property Law from The George Washington University Law School in 1995, and his Law degree from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, he worked in several leading law firms and companies, in Brazil and abroad. He has been deeply involved in the privacy and data protection debate in Brazil, either through his work as a lawyer with Licks Advogados (where he leads the Privacy & Cybersecurity practices) or through IDEPED ( a not-for-profit organization that was involved in the debate involving Brazil´s Data Protection laws and legal framework since its early stages).