Renato Leite Monteiro is the vice president for privacy, data protection, and AI at e&, formerly known as Etisalat, a global technology company headquartered in the United Arab Emirates. He is Twitter/X’s former global data protection officer and global head of privacy. Leite is also a visiting fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), where he aims to foster collaboration between industry, academia, government, and civil society about accountability, transparency obligations, and the right to explanation in AI systems, which was the focus of his Ph.D, research.

Monteiro has provided several testimonies to the Brazilian Federal Senate regarding the Brazilian Bill on AI. His contributions mainly focused on transparency obligations and the right to explanation. Renato also actively collaborated with the discussions and drafting of the General Data Protection Law of Brazil(LGPD). He has also contributed to the discussions and drafting of privacy, data protection, and AI regulation in the EU, Asia, LatAm, and the U.S.

Monteiro cofounded Data Privacy Brasil, Brazil’s leading privacy and data protection research center. He was recognized as one of the global Thought Leaders in privacy and selected for the Global Data Review’s 40 under 40.