LUCA BELLI

Professor & Researcher

I am Professor of Digital Governance and Regulation at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School, Rio de Janeiro, where he directs the Center for Technology  and Society (CTS-FGV) and the CyberBRICS project. I am also editor of the International Data Privacy Law (IDPL) Journal, published by Oxford University Press, and Director of the Computers Privacy and Data Protection conference Latin-America (CPDP LatAm). Since 2024, I have been appointed as a member of the Brazilian Presidency’s National Cybersecurity Committee (CNCiber), and I am also board member of the Global Digital Inclusion Partnership (GDIP) and member of the Steering Committee of the Forum for Information & Democracy (FI&D).

My work is at the interface of law and technology, and I enjoy developing multistakeholder partnerships to analyse existing challenges from different perspectives, and put forward creative solutions. Before joining FGV, I worked as an agent for the Council of Europe (CoE) Internet Governance Unit, I served as a CoE  Network Neutrality Expert, and I earned a PhD in Public Law (summa cum laude) from Université Paris Panthéon-Assas.

Over the past two decades, I have coordinated several projects dedicated to the full stack of digital policies, producing more than 80 publications on law and technology, exploring data governance, Internet access, cybersecurity, AI regulation, and digital transformation. Many of these works have been quoted by numerous media outlets, including The Economist, Financial Times, Forbes, Le Monde, BBC, China Today, The Beijing Review, The Hill, O Globo, Folha de São Paulo, El Pais, etc.

Most of my research is in open access and accessible on this website or on my Lattes profile, and some of my works have been i.a. quoted by the Organization of American States Report on Freedom of Expression and the Internet (2013); used by the Council of Europe to elaborate the Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers on Network Neutrality (2016); featured in the French Telecoms Regulator (ARCEP) Report on the State of the Internet (2018 and 2021); used by the Brazilian Telecom Regulator (ANATEL) to provide guidance on community networks (2020); and quoted by the Council of Europe Best practices on Regulatory Mechanisms of Content Moderation (2021).  

I am not a fan of social media, but you can find me on Twitter,  LinkedIn, and BlueSky.