Carolina Rossini is a Fellow with the Cooperation Research Group at the Berkman Center, coordinating the Industrial Cooperation Project. She is an attorney with experience in intellectual property, international development, innovation policy, internet policy, the digital commons, and the impact of technology on cultures. Carolina is a legal advisor of the Brazilian Embassy in Washington in Intellectual Property and Innovation International Negotiations.
Carolina also coordinates the Brazilian Open Educational Resources Project:Challenges and Perspectives funded by the Open Society institute. Carolina holds positions at the Diplo Foundation as a fellow for the Intellectual Property and Internet Governance Program, where she authored and teach an online course on Intellectual Property, and at IQSensato as a Research Associate for the Access to Knowledge and Innovation Program.
Before moving to the US, Carolina was part of the Brazilian Creative
Commons team at Fundacao Getulio Vargas Law School, where she
coordinated the Legal Clinical Program and the CC Latin America chapter
of Open Business, and was a lecturer in Intellectual Property and
Introduction to Law disciplines. During her time at FGV she also assisted
discussion and research on access to medicines; access to genetic resources and
benefit sharing (having represented the academic community during the
Convention on Biologic diversity COP in Curitiba, Brazil) and free and open
source software.
Before
joining the academic life, Carolina was a counsel for almost 7 years at
Telefonica Telecommunications Group in Brazil, having worked in Brazil and
Spain.
She
holds a LL.M. in Intellectual Property from Boston University (2008), and
degrees from the Sao Paulo State University-UNESP (Master in International
Negotiations - 2006), University of Sao Paulo (Bachelor in Law - 2000),
Instituto de Empresa-IE, Spain (MBA in E-Business - 2004), Specialist in
Industrial Property (University of Buenos Aires - 2006) and other certificate
courses. She also studied international relations at the Catholic University in
Sao Paulo.
Carolina is an active author of papers and book chapters,
and is a regular speaker at national and international conferences.
