Cid Torquato
Business Development in Brazil

Cid Torquato studied Law at the University of São Paulo (USP), where he specialized in International Affairs. He has worked for the Brazilian e-Government Committee (Ministry of Planning) and held managerial positions at StarMedia Networks and Lowe & Partners Latin America.

In May, 2001, he founded the Brazilian Chamber of e-Commerce - Camara-e.net, which he headed until September 2006. During this period, Torquato took part in various forums, such as the Executive Committee on e-Commerce (Brazilian Ministry of Development); Inter-Ministerial Committee on the Information Society (Ministry of Foreign Affairs); São Paulo State Chamber on ICTs; UN ICT Task Force (New York); CCBI/WSIS; E-BITT Comission/ICC (Paris); and as jury of the World Summit Award. Has worked as a consultant for ITC (WTO/UNCTAD, Geneva), on ICTs for SMEs, as well as in projects for the World Bank; Inter-American Development Bank; UNCTAD; WEF; GBDe; CompTIA; ITAA; and ITI.

He has led important missions to promote Brazilian ICTs in Korea, India, USA, France, England, Argentina, Colombia, Bangladesh, Ecuador, and Bahrain.

He has published three books on the Digital Economy, and keeps an active agenda of consulting, presentations and systematic collaboration with the media, with articles as well as a reliable source of trends, knowledge and information.