Talita Dias

Talita is the International Policy and Government Lead at Partnership on AI. Her work focuses on global AI governance and government relations.

Prior to joining PAI, Talita was the Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House’s International Law Programme, where she led research and policy engagement on how international legal frameworks apply to new and emerging technologies.

Talita is an international lawyer with over a decade of combined policy and research experience. She has worked with a range of governments and multilateral institutions, including the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the African Union, the European Union External Action Service, the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence and the International Criminal Court.

Talita co-founded the Oxford Process on International Law Protections in Cyberspace during her time as a Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. She also taught different subjects at the University of Oxford, including Law and Public Policy for the Master of Public Policy Programme at the Blavatnik School of Government.

Talita holds a DPhil and master’s degree in law from the University of Oxford, and a bachelor’s degree in law from the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil, where she is a qualified lawyer.