Who we are

Valeria Milanes

Co-Director

IT Law specialist, graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She is a lawyer with experience in litigation, researcher, and lecturer in IT Law, with a special focus on data protection and privacy. She has participated as a guest lecturer in postgraduate courses at the UBA and the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. She joined ADC in 2015 in charge of the areas of Freedom of Expression and Privacy and developed the digital area. Between 2018 and 2023 she was in charge of the Executive Direction of the organization. She integrates various international spaces representing ADC and civil society in general, namely: she is a member of the Reference Panel of the Global Privacy Assembly, coordinates the Civil Society Forum of the Ibero-American Data Protection Network, and maintains active participation in the Civil 20, which is the engagement group representing civil society in the G20. She has been elected for the third time as a member of the Steering Committee of CSISAC, which is the global civil society space that acts as an observer of the OECD's Committee on Digital Economy Policy (CDEP). She currently works at ADC as Co-Director.

Alejandro Segarra

Co-Director

He is a founding partner of the law firm PSM Abogados, in charge of the criminal and constitutional law area, professor of Criminal Procedural Law at the undergraduate course at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, and member of the Argentine Association of Professors of Criminal Procedural Law. He is also deputy director of the Institute of Constitutional Law of the Bar Association of San Isidro, Province of Buenos Aires. He worked in the Public Defender's Office before the Correctional Courts of the Federal Capital. He was an associate lawyer at Negri & Teijeiro Law Firm, in the area of commercial law, international contracts, and corporate matters. He was legal advisor in constitutional and criminal matters at the Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Congress. As director of Strategic Litigation of ADC, he has filed lawsuits and amicus curiae briefs in several areas of law, such as freedom of expression, disability, and privacy, among others, which have had a strong impact at the national and regional levels. He currently works at ADC as Co-Director.

Marianela Milanes

Project Manager

She holds a degree in Political Science from the School of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). After a decade of working in public administration, she joined the ADC team, where she currently works as a Project Manager, seeking the defense of human rights and the strengthening of democracy, mainly in the digital environment.