Waldemar Gonçalves Ortunho Júnior

Waldemar Gonçalves Ortunho Junior is Chief Executive Officer of the National Data Protection Authority - ANPD, having been appointed on November 6, 2020 to serve a 6-year term. Prior to this, he chaired Telecomunicações Brasileiras SA - Telebras, a Brazilian federal state company, linked to the Ministry of Communications, responsible for implementing the Public Telecommunications Policies of Brazil from January 24, 2019 to November 2020, when he asked for his resignation from office to take over the ANPD.

He is an Electronic Engineer, graduated from the Military Engineering Institute, with a postgraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Brasília (UnB). Professional with 40 years of experience in the Ministries of Defense (Brazilian Army) and Communications, working in the areas of Information Technology (IT), with an emphasis on telecommunications, broadcasting and information technology. He was appointed representative of the Brazilian government at the Polytechnic School of the Ecuadorian Army, in Quito, with the function of advisor / instructor in the area of digital signal processing.

He was representative of the then Ministry of Communications in the Digital TV Management Group and manager of the international mobile telephony roaming project for South America. As a military engineer, in the Ministry of Defense he served in the Telecommunications Directorate and in the Army Commander’s Office, where he managed the telematic network project. He was coordinator of the technology area at the National Stadium in Brasília at the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, and at the 2014 World Cup.