Carina Birarda is a cybersecurity and digital governance specialist with more than 25 years of experience across cybersecurity leadership, cyber resilience, telecommunications, digital policy, and critical infrastructure environments in both the public and private sectors, including executive and CISO advisory roles across Latin America and international markets. She was appointed to the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) in 2022, 2023, and 2024, and was reappointed in 2026.
During her MAG terms, Birarda co-facilitated the IGF Best Practice Forum on Cybersecurity, contributing to community-driven guidance on cybersecurity norms, agreements, and international cooperation frameworks. Her engagement with the BPF on Cybersecurity dates back to 2017, when she began as a key contributor, including to the IGF 2019 BPF Cybersecurity: Agreements final output report, among others. She has participated as an invited expert in the IGF Parliamentary Track across multiple editions, contributing to dialogue between legislators and the technical community on cybersecurity and digital governance.
Birarda has served since 2025 on the Americas & Caribbean Coordination Committee of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE), contributing to regional cyber capacity building strategy. She also served on the Steering Committee of the ICC Latin America Committee, the regional body coordinating Latin America's participation in the International Cybersecurity Challenge (ICC) — ENISA's global CTF competition — where she participated as an international technical juror representing the Latin America & Caribbean region.
She served as Vice President of the Internet Society Cybersecurity Special Interest Group (2017–2021) and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Cloud Security Alliance Argentina Chapter (2015–2019), contributing to the cloud security governance ecosystem at the regional level.
Birarda is a founding member of the organizing committee of IGF Argentina, the National Internet Governance Forum, since its inaugural edition in 2016, representing the technical community.
Her research work includes the co-authored policy paper "Women's Participation in Cybersecurity in Spanish-Speaking Countries in Ibero-America" (Tecnológico de Monterrey Cybersecurity Hub, 2023, funded by Microsoft and INCIBE), and a chapter in "El Quinto Poder" (Editorial Planeta, 2025) on cybersecurity and digital citizenship. Her full publication record is available via ORCID.
Prior to her current roles, Birarda led strategic projects at BA-CSIRT, the cybersecurity center of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, coordinating security protocols for the 2018 Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games with official IOC recognition, and leading BA-CSIRT's successful admission to FIRST.
Birarda founded Binary Group in 2017, a Spanish-speaking community dedicated to developing women in defense and cybersecurity across Ibero-America, connecting talent with international capacity building opportunities and governance spaces. She teaches at the Universidad Nacional Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz (UNSO) and at Ekoparty Hackademy, and has been recognized as Top Women in Cybersecurity Americas for three consecutive years (2022, 2023, and 2024).
