James Görgen

James Görgen has been a Specialist in Public Policy and Government Management since 2020 at the Ministry of Development, Industry, Foreign Trade and Services (MDIC) of Brazil, working as Coordinator for Digital Markets at the General Coordination of Digital Economy of the Department of Digital Transformation and Innovation and member of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br). Between 2016 and 2020, he served at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in Rome. At this UN body, he was a consultant, coordinator of the digital innovation team, and later responsible for designing the FAO Innovation Program. From 2011 to 2016, he worked in the Executive Secretariat of the Ministry of Communications as Special Advisor to the Minister and Director of Strategic Management. Since joining the public service, he has worked directly with the issues of formulating the new regulatory frameworks for electronic communications, Internet governance and regulation, and fostering the digital economy. As a special advisor to the Minister of Communications of Brazil and the Executive Secretary, he worked on Internet regulation and governance, the Broadband for All Program, Digital TV, content promotion and the digital economy and economic regulation of the media. From 2009 to 2011, he worked as General Coordinator of Audiovisual Policies at the Ministry of Culture's Audiovisual Secretariat, in direct contact with the National Film Agency (Ancine).