Dr. Ana Brian Nougrères is a Professor of Law, Privacy and ICT at the University of Montevideo. She is based in Uruguay and is a practicing Attorney-at-law and Consultant on data protection. In July 2021, the Human Rights Council appointed her as the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy and she took up the mandate on 1 August 2021. She presented her first UN report “Privacy and personal data protection in Ibero-America: A step towards globalization?” A/HRC/49/55  at the Human Rights Council in March 2022.