Brigitte Vézina
Director of Policy, former Copyright Advisor at Europeana Foundation
Creative Commons
Netherlands, NL
Brigitte is Creative Commons' Director of Policy and Open Culture, where she leads the organization's policy efforts and runs the Open Culture Program, which promotes open access to cultural heritage worldwide. Before joining CC, she worked for a decade as a legal officer at WIPO and then ran her own consultancy, advising Europeana, SPARC Europe and others on copyright matters. Brigitte is a fellow at the Canadian think tank Centre for International Governance Innovation. She holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the Université de Montréal and a master’s in law from Georgetown University. She has been a member of the Bar of Québec since 2003.
