Renata Ávila Pinto

In 2020, she cofounded the Geneva-based Polylateral Association and currently serves as its president.

As a digital rights activist, she has denounced the deterioration of net neutrality, mass surveillance, and attacks on freedom of expression on the Internet. For five years she was chief digital rights advisor at the World Wide Web Foundation. Along with founder Tim Berners-Lee, she led the Web We Want campaign, promoting respect for human rights in the digital era in more than 75 countries. In 2018 she was appointed Executive Director of the Intelligent Citizenship Foundation [es], an organization that promotes the openness of data and its use in favor of society in Latin America, based in Chile and Brazil.

She has written for media outlets such as eldiario.es, Global Voices, and openDemocracy, as well as for various academic publications and international periodicals. She appeared in the documentaries ForEveryone.Net (2015), Risk (2016), and Hacking Justice (2017).

In 2014, she was one of the participants in the creation of the Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet in order to implement legislation to protect net neutrality.

Renata Ávila Pinto (born 1 January 1981) is a Guatemalan lawyer and activist specializing in technology and intellectual property. She is a spokesperson and part of the team that defends Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, under the direction of Baltasar Garzón. Since October 2021 she has been the CEO of the UK-based Open Knowledge Foundation.