Carolina Rossini

Activist, Brainstormer, Educator/Teacher, Idea generator, Lawyer, Parent, Policy maker, World traveler

Carolina Rossini is the International Intellectual Property Director at Electronic Frontier Foundation. Carolina is a Brazilian attorney and an international expert in intellectual property law, with expertise in both traditional transactions in software content, and internet business as well as more innovative commons-based approaches. She has more than seven years of transactional experience as well as a strong background in academic and nonprofit approaches to IP. She is also a seasoned strategic planner and project manager with a strong track record in fundraising, hiring, management, and execution. She is fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. She is a member of the IP Global Agenda Council for the World Economic Forum, a board member of the Brazilian Internet Institute, and the founder of OER-Brazil, which works with policymakers to enact open access and open educational resource polices in Brazil and beyond. Rossini previously was a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University coordinating the Industrial Cooperation Project and working with Yochai Benkler. Back in Brazil, she worked with GPOPAI-USP on open innovation strategies for university knowledge governance and technology transfer at the University of Sao Paulo, and was an IP professor and Legal Clinic coordinator at FGV Law School in Rio de Janeiro and part of Creative Commons Brazil. In San Francisco, Carolina worked for the Wikimedia Foundation shaping strategies to increase community engagement and foundation presence in Brazil. Before joining and academic and non-profit life, she worked, in Brazil and Spain, as an in-house transactional telecom and internet lawyer for Terra Networks, the ISP of Telefonica. While there she negotiated and drafted contracts that became corporate standards for internet access services, international backbone access, data centers, mobile content, and more. Carolina has an LLM in Intellectual Property from Boston University (USA), a MBA from Instituto de Empresas (Spain), a Master Degree in International Negotiations from UNESCP-UNICAMP (Brazil) and a Bachelors degree in Law (JD) from University of Sao Paulo (Brazil).

shaping the policy and legal environments to ensure people have access to knowledge, and so choose to enjoy culture, have access to quality education or become market or social entrepreneurs

that public funded educational resources should be available to the public as open educational resources that are legally and technically interoperable

creative commons, Intellectual Property, Open Access for Biomedical Literature, Open Business, Open Educational Resources, Policy and Advocacy, Sharing Economy, Telecom Industry

dancing samba and salsa, making caipirinha, choosing the best prosciutto, being a mom