Mariateresa Garrido V.

Mariateresa Garrido Villareal is an international lawyer and trainer specialising in freedom of expression, digital rights and AI governance in Latin America. For eight years she was Associate Professor at the University for Peace (UN-mandated) in Costa Rica, where she also coordinated the Doctoral Programme and served as Deputy Director of the Global Center for Peace Innovation. She has led UNESCO- and UNDP-funded projects on journalist safety in Central America and teaches online courses for UNICRI on disinformation and online hate. Today she works as an independent consultant and trainer, including for the Inter-American Development Bank. She is driven by the conviction that peace must be built into AI systems from the start, and that peace workers need the skills to question them.