Beatriz Botero Arcila, SJD
Assistant Expert
Beatriz is an Assistant Professor of Law at Sciences Po Paris and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. She holds a law degree from Universidad de los Andes, graduating in the top 6% of her class, and has studied at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies at Georgetown University and King's College London. She earned her LLM and PhD (SJD) from Harvard Law School, where she researched the governance of technologies in smart cities. Her practice focuses on artificial intelligence regulation, data governance, privacy, and digital surveillance, with direct applications to public policy design in Latin America and Europe. She has coordinated research projects funded by The McCourt Institute and Project Liberty, regularly publishes in leading legal journals in Europe and the United States, advises the World Bank on digital governance, and is a co-founder of the Edgelands Institute, an organization dedicated to studying the digitalization of urban security, with work in Medellín, Geneva, Houston, and Nairobi. At Nalanda Analytica, she contributes her expertise in artificial intelligence regulation.
