Francisco Brito Cruz
Executive DirectorChico is the Executive Director and co-founder of InternetLab. He is a lawyer, holding a bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degree from the University of São Paulo Law School (FDUSP). Currently, he is a professor in the Digital Law postgraduate program at Fundação Getúlio Vargas Law School in São Paulo and a member of the Steering Committee of the World Movement for Democracy.
He was a visiting researcher at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley (2013) and a member of the Electoral Law Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association — São Paulo Section (2019-2020). Also founded and coordinated the Law, Internet, and Society Nucleous at the University of São Paulo (NDIS-USP, 2012-2014, 2016-2019).
Chico is co-author of the books “Sobrevivendo nas Redes: Guia do Cidadão” (Moderna, 2018), “Direito Eleitoral na Era Digital” (Literacy, 2019) and “A Internet no banco dos réus” (IASP, 2017) and author of the book “Novo jogo, velhas regras” (Letramento, 2020).
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