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J. Carlos Lara

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Tags chile, santiago, latin-america, lawyer, co-executive-director, derechos-digitales, digital-rights, human-rights, public-policy, ai-governance, algorithmic-accountability, automated-decision-making, freedom-of-expression, data-privacy, intellectual-property

J. Carlos Lara · 2 direct neighbours visible

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03 · Background

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Chilean human-rights lawyer based in Santiago; Co-Executive Director of Derechos Digitales, the Latin American digital-rights non-profit, alongside Jamila Venturini. The co-direction model was introduced in September 2021, with Lara and Venturini — both then members of the organisation's managerial staff — taking joint stewardship after Maria Paz Canales stepped down from a four-year tenure as Executive Director. Prior to the transition Lara managed the organisation's Public Policy and Research team.

Lara holds a law degree from the University of Chile School of Law and a Master of Laws from the University of California, Berkeley — an LL.M. in Law and Technology completed in 2017–2018. Before joining Derechos Digitales' senior leadership he worked as a research assistant at the University of Chile's Center for Studies in Information Law and as an instructor and lecturer in intellectual property, privacy, and civil law, with consulting work in intellectual property for public and private institutions. His research and policy lines at Derechos Digitales have centred on technology and data privacy, freedom of expression, access to knowledge on online platforms, and — over the last several years — AI governance and algorithmic accountability across Latin America.

Under the Lara/Venturini co-direction the organisation has expanded its regional AI-and-human-rights line, including leading the drafting of the Latin American civil-society contribution to the 192nd session of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights' regional hearing on artificial intelligence and human rights in April 2025, a collaborative effort across seventeen Latin American organisations.

04 · Sources

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  1. derechosdigitales.org

    Checked 2026-05-13

    Derechos Digitales' own about page — primary source for Lara's current title (Co-Executive Director, alongside Jamila Venturini), his Chilean nationality, his University of Chile law degree and UC Berkeley master's, and his framing as a "Defender of human rights in digital environments, with experience in research and public policy advocacy"

  2. derechosdigitales.org

    Checked 2026-05-13

    Derechos Digitales' September 2021 announcement of the co-direction transition — primary source for the start date of the Venturini/Lara co-direction model and for Maria Paz Canales's prior four-year tenure as executive director

  3. berkeleyglobalsociety.com

    Checked 2026-05-13

    Berkeley Global Society profile — primary source for Lara's 2017-2018 LL.M. in Law & Technology at UC Berkeley, his prior research-assistant work at the University of Chile's Center for Studies in Information Law, and his prior teaching in intellectual property, privacy, and civil law

  4. linkedin.com

    Checked 2026-05-13

    LinkedIn profile — corroborates the Executive Director title and Santiago base

  5. apc.org

    Checked 2026-05-13

    Association for Progressive Communications 20th-anniversary interview (2025) with Venturini and Lara as Derechos Digitales' co-executive directors — primary source for Lara's joint stewardship of the organisation's regional AI-and-data-colonialism framing

  6. tedic.org

    Checked 2026-05-13

    TEDIC account of the 192nd IACHR session (April 2025) — corroborates Derechos Digitales' lead drafting role on the Latin American civil-society contribution on AI and human rights under Lara and Venturini's co-direction

  7. necessaryandproportionate.org

    Checked 2026-05-13

    Necessary & Proportionate (the international principles on the application of human rights to communications surveillance) author listing — corroborates Lara's long-standing public-policy and research output on surveillance and digital rights from the Derechos Digitales platform

Source: entities/persons/person-juan-carlos-lara.md in movement-graph at pin 3cc1a36.