Leandro Ucciferri

Leandro Ucciferri is the Engagement Lead for Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) within our Digital Transformation. He focuses on expanding collaboration with and support for civil society organizations around the world, leading efforts to adapt the RDR and Digital Inclusion’s benchmarking methodologies, and strengthening civil society coalitions built around the data produced by the benchmarks under the Digital Transformation.

Leandro is a lawyer and digital rights advocate with a decade of experience working in the technology policy space. Prior to joining WBA, Leandro was the Global Partnerships Manager at Ranking Digital Rights, where he fostered breakthrough research projects to study local and regional digital services and telecom operators in the Majority World. Before joining RDR, Leandro was a researcher and project officer at the Association for Civil Rights (ADC, in Spanish), a non-profit and independent NGO, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At ADC, Leandro managed research projects and advocacy campaigns focused on the right to privacy in the digital age. He has published reports covering issues such as biometrics, encryption, surveillance, cybersecurity, financial technologies, and digital identity. He has participated as a speaker in international events and multilateral fora including at the United Nations, the Organization of American States (OAS), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), RightsCon, and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF).