Mariana Valente is Professor of international economic law. Her research focuses on the regulation of digital platforms and artificial intelligence from a socio-legal and political economy perspective, and she has experience with topics such as gender-based violence (GBV), intellectual property, regulation in peripheral markets, and data justice.
She is Brazilian and approaches her work and research from both a Brazilian and a global perspective. She is a co-founder and deputy director of InternetLab, a think tank on internet policy based in São Paulo, a co-founder of the Center for Law and Tech, and heads the Law and Policy Strategy Group of the IPIE (International Panel on the Information Environment).
As part of her numerous political engagements, she served as a member of the Brazilian Senate’s Commission of Jurists, which drafted the bill to regulate artificial intelligence (AI). In 2025, she received the Internet Governance Highlights Award from CGI.br (the Internet Steering Committee in Brazil).