Dr Talita Dias (she/her)

Dr Talita Dias is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, where she is directing the project ‘Advancing the Application of International Law in the Cyber Context in Africa’. This project builds on the Handbook on Developing a National Position on International Law and Cyber Activities: A Practical Guide for States, co-authored with Professor Kubo Mačak and Dr Ágnes Kasper.

Prior to joining Exeter, Talita was the International Policy and Government Lead at Partnership on AI (PAI), where she led research on global AI governance and oversaw government relations. Talita also held positions at Chatham House (where she was a Senior Research Fellow in the International Law Programme, leading research on international law and emerging technologies); the University of Oxford (as a Junior Research Fellow in Law, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Law and Public Policy, and a Lecturer in International Law and Criminal Law); and Royal Hollow (where she was a Teaching Fellow in International Law). She has worked for national governments, international organisations (including the European Union External Action Service, the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, and the International Criminal Court), and civil society organisations.

Talita is an international lawyer with over twelve years of academic research, teaching, legal practice, and policy experience. She is the co-author of the Handbook on Developing a National Position on International Law and Cyber Activities: A Practical Guide for States (CCDCOE, 2025) and the author of Beyond Imperfect Justice: Legality and Fair Labelling in International Criminal Law (Brill, 2022).

Talita holds a DPhil and a master’s in law (Magister Juris) from the University of Oxford, and a Bachelor of Laws from the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil, where she is a qualified lawyer.