Beatriz Kira

Head of research, Policy Watch

Ph.D. student at the University of São Paulo, where she also earned her Bachelor of Laws degree (LL.B., 2015). In 2013, Beatriz was an exchange student at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), on a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). In 2015, she participated in a training course in drawing up legislation and public policy development organized by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice. In 2016 she attended the Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute, held at the University of Oxford. She is a former scholarship holder from Programa de Educação Tuturial (PET), of the Brazilian Ministry of Education, and worked as junior researcher with the Brazilian Network of Empirical Legal Studies. Currently, Beatriz is a researcher fellow with the Law and Public Policy Research Group at the University of São Paulo and coordinator of the Policy Watch area of InternetLab, where she was also part of the project “Sharing economy and its regulatory challenges”.