Rita Laura Segato (born 14 August 1951) is an Argentine-Brazilian academic, who has been called "one of Latin America's most celebrated feminist anthropologists"[1] and "one of the most lucid feminist thinkers of this era".

[2] She is specially known for her research oriented towards gender in indigenous villages and Latin American communities, violence against women and the relationships between gender, racism and colonialism.

She teaches Anthropology at the University of Brasília, where she holds the UNESCO Chair of Anthropology and Bioethics;[4] since 2011 she has taught on the Postgraduate Programme of Bioethics and Human Rights.

[1] She additionally carries out research on behalf of Brazil's National Council for Scientific and Technological Development.

In 2016, along with Prudencio García Martínez, Segato was an expert witness in the Sepur Zarco case,[5] in which senior officers at a military base in Guatemala were convicted of crimes against humanity as a result of the holding of fourteen women in sexual and domestic slavery.