Diego Casaes is a Senior Campaigner with Avaaz, a global civic movement that campaigns on issues from climate change, disinformation, human rights, and other topics.He has nearly 10 years of experience in advocacy and campaigning in the Brazilian Congress in the fields of anti-corruption, digital rights, and environmental protection, having been involved in key Brazilian policy processes like the Ficha Limpa Law (Clean Slate Law), the Internet Rights Law (Marco Civil da Internet), the “open vote” Constitutional Amendment that brought to light corruption practices inside the Brazilian Congress, and more. Recently he led Avaaz’s anti-disinformation work in the last Brazil 2018 elections, helping take down a network with 16 million followers that were spreading disinformation during the elections. Before Avaaz, he worked in the Transparency Hacker Collective at the House of Digital Culture, a collective of technologists and policy-geeks that helped push the agenda of digital culture, transparency, open data, and digital rights in Brazil. Right now, he’s also finishing an MBA in International Relations at FGV (Getúlio Vargas Foundation) in São Paulo, Brazil.