Camila Rioja
President at MIT Computational Law Report
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolCamila Rioja is a lawyer-turned-technology and innovation leader who directs Plexos Institute and runs a consultancy advising blockchain and emerging-tech ventures across Brazil and Latin America. With a decade of legal experience on high-profile antitrust and merger matters and a postgraduate diploma from King’s College London, she uniquely blends competition law expertise with practical legal-tech product development. A pioneer in the region’s tech ecosystem, she co-founded SP Legal Hackers, led Celo’s LatAm partnerships, and serves on the MIT Computational Law Report editorial board. She regularly lectures at top universities and mentors hackathons and innovation challenges, helping translate regulatory complexity into viable market strategies. Less obvious: her career threads institutional litigation rigor into hands-on startup guidance, making her a go-to for projects that need both legal certainty and growth-minded experimentation.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Direito, Direito at UniCEUB - Centro Universitário de BrasíliaLegal English, Legal English at The London School of EnglishPostgraduate Diploma Economics for Competition Law, Postgraduate Diploma Economics for Competition Law at King's College LondonDireito Econômico, Direito Econômico at Escola Superior de Advocacia da Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
governance8
cryptocurrency8
blockchain8
ethereum7
distributed-ledger1
ledger1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MilaRioja/BlockchainCompliance
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
MilaRioja/2018-Developments-
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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