Vânia Gonçalves is a tech and research leader who has spent over 25 years working where technology meets policy and society. She leads an international team working on cutting-edge security and privacy research, and serves as an expert evaluator for the European Commission. She holds a PhD, studied technology policy at Cambridge and spent several years researching emerging technologies and regulation in Brussels.

In 2010 she founded the Geek Girls Portugal community, and she advocates for more diverse teams building technology, as a safeguard against its harms.