Yasodara Cordova | Deputy Director
Dataprev

Yasodara (Yaso) Cordova is a technologist and policy strategist with over 15 years of experience at the intersection of privacy engineering, digital identity, and governance. She currently serves as Deputy Director for Privacy and Cybersecurity at Dataprev, Brazil's federal social data infrastructure company, where she leads privacy and security strategy protecting data for over 180 million citizens, including anti-fraud initiatives, trust and safety architecture, and the rollout of a verifiable credentials platform built on MOSIP and anchored to the Brazilian national identity system. She also serves on the investment board of the Co-Develop Fund, dedicated to scaling safe and inclusive digital public infrastructure globally. Previously, Yaso served as Principal Privacy and Digital Identity Researcher at unico IDtech, one of Latin America's largest SaaS companies, where she led the development of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies and drove the integration of trust and safety practices into biometric and identity verification products. She has worked at World Bank on digital governance, cybersecurity, and fraud detection in public sector applications, and was a Mason Fellow and researcher at Harvard Kennedy School and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. A four-time SXSW speaker and World Economic Forum presenter, Yaso brings rare fluency across technical architecture, regulatory compliance, and executive strategy. She co-chaired the W3C Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group, making her the first Brazilian to chair a W3C working group.