Senior Fellow at the Brazilian Center of International Relations (CEBRI). Paulo Sérgio Melo de Carvalho is a reserve Lieutenant General for the Brazilian Army. He is a specialist in Information Technology and Communications and has acted in the cybernetics area at the political/strategic and operational/technical levels, having headed the Cybernetic Defense Center between 2014 and 2016 and becoming the first commander of the Cybernetic Defense Command, created in 2016. Currently, he is a consultant for the cybernetic sector and participates in human resources capacitation, in Brazil and abroad.