Simone Lahorgue Nunes

Practice Areas

Media, Entertainment and Sports Law

Technology

Privacy and Data protection

Freedom of Expression and Right to Privacy

Career

Founding Partner at Lahorgue Advogadas Associadas. Previously, she implemented and was the head of the Media & Entertainment | Privacy & Data Protection Practices of a renowned Brazilian full-service law firm for 11 years. She was also General Counsel at Grupo Globo, the biggest media group in Latin America, from 1997 to 2008. Ms. Lahorgue is a professor at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) Law School.

Simone is an arbitrator for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

At the International Bar Association (IBA), she is a member of the Advisory Board for the Technology Law Committee, where she served as co-chair (2015-2016). Simone was also chair of the Sports Law Subcommittee (2020-2021).

She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional / Europe CIPP – E; Certified Information Privacy Manager – CIPM; and Certified Data Protection Officer – CDPO/BR by the International Association of Privacy Professional (IAPP).

Publications

Simone is the author of books on topics related to copyright, financial market and antitrust.

Personal

Simone is a member of the Board and the Executive Board of Equality Now since 2017, an international non-governmental organization.

https://www.equalitynow.org/