Ana Brian Nougrères
Is currently the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy (since 2021).
Dr. Ana Brian Nougrères holds a Doctorate in Law and Social Sciences from the Faculty of Law at the Universidad de la República (Uruguay), awarded in 1986.
She currently serves as a Professor of IT Law and Personal Data Protection in the Bachelor’s in Data Science and at the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad de Montevideo (since 2014). She has also been a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Universidad de la República, since 2003.
Ana Brian Nougrères is a founding member of the Institute of IT Law at the Universidad de la República (since 2000), and an ex officio member of the Ibero-American Network for Data Protection (since 2003). She has contributed to the work of the International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications (IWGDPT) in multiple years (2004, 2006, 2008, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025). She is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) (since 2007), and was appointed a Privacy by Design Ambassador in 2011. She was a founding member of the International Academic Network on Personal Data Protection and Related Rights (from 2010 to 2012).
She served as Legal Advisor to the National Parliament of Uruguay, providing legal counsel to both the Senate and the House of Representatives (between 1992 and 2019). In this capacity, she actively supported several legislators in the drafting and adoption of Uruguay’s Personal Data Protection Act in 2008. Her work also played a key role in Uruguay’s accession to Convention 108 of the Council of Europe, which entered into force on August 1, 2013, making Uruguay the first non-European country to sign the Convention and the 45th country to become a party to it.
Her additional academic training includes a Journalism Program (Escuela de Periodismo de Búsqueda, Uruguay, 2017–2019), the Executive Development Program (Instituto de Estudios Empresariales, Universidad de Montevideo, 2019), and a course on Business Communication in Times of Crisis (Facultad de Comunicaciones, Universidad de Montevideo, 2019).
She also served as Legal Advisor to the Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Prisons (2011–2018).
Ana Brian Nougrères actively participates in international academic and professional conferences, teaches courses, contributes to publications, and collaborates with experts from various universities and institutions on topics related to information technology, human rights, and personal data protection—both in Uruguay and internationally (including Australia, Berlin, Bogotá, Bolivia, Brasília, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Cambridge, Cartagena de Indias, Qatar, Córdoba, South Korea, Dallas, Florence, Guatemala, Mauritius, Havana, Lima, Lisbon, Lithuania, Madrid, Morocco, Mexico, Milan, Mongolia, Monterrey, Paris, Puebla, Ribeirão Preto, Rome, São Paulo, Santa Marta, Santiago de Chile, Shanghai, Stanford, Tokyo, Warsaw, among others).
She has authored more than 100 articles in her areas of specialization, published in academic journals such as Tribuna del Abogado (Uruguayan Bar Association) and Anuario de Derecho Informático (Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de la República), among others. She also contributes to specialized publications such as La Ley – Privacidad (Spain), and is recognized as a consulting expert by journals such as OneTrust Data Guidance (UK). In 2008, she authored Protección de Datos en Uruguay. Her most recent publication,co-authored, is titled “Transferencia Internacional de datos personales en América Latina: Hacia la armonización de normas” (2025).
