Brazil’s National Data Protection Agency (“ANPD”) launched a public consultation on proposed changes to its regulatory oversight framework, reflecting the agency’s expanding role in overseeing data protection, online safety, and digital platforms.

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Photo of Daniel Erikson Daniel Erikson

Daniel P. Erikson has more than twenty years of experience in international relations, foreign policy, national security, and defense policy, primarily focused on Western Hemisphere affairs. A non-lawyer, Dan’s experience includes serving at the National Security Council, the Department of Defense, the Office…

Daniel P. Erikson has more than twenty years of experience in international relations, foreign policy, national security, and defense policy, primarily focused on Western Hemisphere affairs. A non-lawyer, Dan’s experience includes serving at the National Security Council, the Department of Defense, the Office of the Vice President, and the Department of State, as well as work for think-tanks, universities, and private sector consultancies.

Prior to joining the firm, Dan was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the National Security Council, where he served as the lead White House advisor on the hemisphere. His work covered all diplomatic, economic, and national security issues related to Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, South America, and Canada.

Dan was previously the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Western Hemisphere at the U.S. Department of Defense. At the Pentagon, he successfully advanced U.S. defense priorities as the Department’s senior policy official for the Western Hemisphere, with a focus on defense modernization, effective security cooperation, counter-narcotics, climate resilience, cyber, and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. In this capacity, Dan served as a member of the Senior Executive Service and managed a team of civilian and military defense professionals to provide policy guidance to the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Northern Command, and U.S. Southern Command.

Dan also served in the White House as Special Advisor to the Vice President, where he covered foreign affairs, economic, and national security issues in the Western Hemisphere. Prior to this, Dan was Senior Advisor for Congressional and Inter-Governmental Affairs and Senior Advisor for Policy at the U.S. Department of State. His responsibilities included advising State Department leadership on complex diplomatic issues and key administration and congressional priorities.

In addition to his U.S. government experience, Dan has held senior positions in the private sector, think-tanks, and academia. He has published widely on a range of topics in international and Latin American and Caribbean affairs and testified before the U.S. Congress. He is the recipient of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service and the U.S. State Department’s Superior Honor Award.

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Diego Bonomo is a senior advisor in the firm’s London office. Diego, a non-lawyer, has more than 25 years of Brazil regulatory, trade, and foreign affairs experience at leading business associations, think tanks, companies, and academic institutions. Diego also served in the Brazilian…

Diego Bonomo is a senior advisor in the firm’s London office. Diego, a non-lawyer, has more than 25 years of Brazil regulatory, trade, and foreign affairs experience at leading business associations, think tanks, companies, and academic institutions. Diego also served in the Brazilian government.

Before joining the firm, Diego was Team Leader of the Brazil Trade Facilitation Program at Palladium and Executive Manager of International Affairs at Brazil’s National Confederation of Industry — CNI. At the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, he served as Senior Director of the International Division and Senior Director for Policy of the Brazil-U.S. Business Council. Diego also was Executive Director of the Brazil Industries Coalition — BIC, the leading Brazilian business coalition in the United States, and General Coordinator of Foreign and Trade Affairs at the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo — FIESP. He previously served in the Office of the President of Brazil as advisor to the Minister of Long-Term Planning.

Diego holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in international relations from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo.

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Anna Sophia Oberschelp de Meneses advises on EU data protection, cybersecurity, and consumer law. Her practice covers the full range of Europe’s digital regulatory framework, including GDPR, ePrivacy, NIS2, the Cyber Resilience Act, the AI Act, the Digital Services Act, the Data Act…

Anna Sophia Oberschelp de Meneses advises on EU data protection, cybersecurity, and consumer law. Her practice covers the full range of Europe’s digital regulatory framework, including GDPR, ePrivacy, NIS2, the Cyber Resilience Act, the AI Act, the Digital Services Act, the Data Act, the European Health Data Space, and EU consumer protection law, including product safety, product liability, and consumer rights legislation. She focuses on the operational side of compliance — helping clients design policies and processes, draft documentation, and build the internal frameworks needed to meet regulatory requirements in practice.

She also advises on contentious matters, drawing on experience managing investigations before national regulators and proceedings before national courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union. She works closely with Covington’s disputes teams on matters at the intersection of regulatory compliance and litigation.

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