Ronaldo Lemos

Ronaldo Lemos is the director of the Center for Technology and Society at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) School of Law in Rio de Janeiro. Dr. Lemos is the head professor of Intellectual Property law at FGV Law School. He is also the director of the Creative Commons Brazil and chairman of the board of iCommons. He has earned his LL.B. and LL.D. from the University of Sao Paulo, and his LL.M. from Harvard Law School. He is the author of several books, including "Direito, Tecnologia e Cultura," published by FGV Press, 2005, and "Software Livre e Administração Pública" (2007). He coordinates various projects, such as the Cultura Livre project, and the Open Business Project, an international initiative taking place in Brazil, Nigeria, Chile, Mexico, South Africa and the UK. He is one of the founders of Overmundo, the largest cultural Web 2.0 iniative in Brazil, recipient in 2007 of the Prix Ars Electronica (Golden Nica) in the category Digital Communities. He is also a member of the Electronic Commerce Comission appointed by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice, curator of the TIM Festival, and monthly columnist at Trip Magazine.