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Vera Jourova
Vice President, Values and Transparency, European Commission
Vera Jourova
Vice President, Values and Transparency, European Commission
Responsibilities
- Ensuring the democratic system is open, transparent, protected from external interference.
- Chairing the Commissioners’ Group on a New Push for European Democracy.
- Playing a lead role in the Conference on the Future of Europe and its follow-up on democratic processes and institutional matters.
- Brokering talks on improving, notably, the lead candidate system and transnational lists.
- Maintaining an open, transparent and regular dialogue with other EU institutions, citizens, representative associations and civil society.
- Coordinating an EU Democracy Action Plan to address external intervention in EU elections.
- Tabling legislative proposals to ensure more transparency in paid political advertising and clearer rules on financing European political parties.
- Supporting work on countering disinformation and fake information, while preserving freedom of expression, freedom of the press and media pluralism.
- Monitoring implementation of the Code of Practice, with regulatory intervention if necessary.
- Identifying risks to plurality in the media sector, and proposing cross-border projects to support independent and diverse journalistic activities.
- Leading talks on a Transparency Register and independent ethics body for EU institutions.
- Coordinating the European Citizens’ Initiative, giving European more say in decision making.
- Leading the work on the EU’s accession to the European Convention on Human Rights.
- Monitoring the application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
- Safeguarding the right of peaceful assembly and the freedom of association.
- Raising awareness of EU citizenship rights with the Rights, Equalities and Citizenship Programme.
- Coordinating work on inclusion and building a genuine Union of equality and diversity.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
former Prime Minister, Honorary Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Foundation Prospective and Innovation
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
former Prime Minister, Honorary Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Foundation Prospective and Innovation
Born in 1948 in Poitiers, Mr. Jean-Pierre Raffarin is graduated from l’École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP). He was senior lecturer at the Institut d’Études politiques of Paris and he occupies this position at ESCP Europe since 2007.
Political career at the national level
From 1988 to 2002, he was President of the Regional Council of Poitou-Charentes and presided over the Association of French Regions. Meanwhile, he was also a member and questor of the European Parliament.
From 1995 to 1997, he was appointed Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises, Commerce and Craft. Appointed by Jacques Chirac, he was the French Prime Minister from May 2002 to May 2005.
Elected Senator of Vienne from 1995 to 2017, he also occupied the position of Vice-President of the Senate from March 2011 to September 2014. Moreover, from October 2014 to July 2017, he was President of the Foreign Affairs, Defense and Armed Forces Committee of the Senate.
Since the beginning of his political involvement, he is a member of governing bodies of Center-Right political family.
International activities
- Advisor to BOAO Forum (Asia);
- Chairman of the Foundation Prospective and Innovation;
- Chairman of France—China Committee Annual Forum;
- Chairman of the Foundation Leaders for Peace
- Board member of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai;
- Board member of the “Praemium Imperial” – Tokyo;
- President of the French Republic’s personal representative for Francophony from 2009 to 2012;
- Several presidential missions, including the one related to economic relations with Algeria.
- French Special Representative for China (since January 2018).
Latest publications
- Ce que la Chine nous a appris, book in chinese written with Anne-Marie Raffarin, 2010
- Je marcherai toujours à l’affectif, Flammarion 2012
- Chine, le grand paradoxe : pour le réveil de l’Europe, Michel Lafon, 2019
Elizabeth Kelly
Director, U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute
Elizabeth Kelly
Director, U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute
Elizabeth Kelly serves as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the White House National Economic Council, where she leads efforts around technology and financial regulation. She previously served as a senior policy advisor on the Biden-Harris Transition Team and in the Obama White House. In the private sector, Elizabeth was Senior Vice President of Growth for Capital One, which acquired United Income, a fintech company that she helped grow as SVP of Operations. Elizabeth holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, an MSc in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford, and a B.A. from Duke University. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Dragos Tudorache
Member of the European Parliament
Dragos Tudorache
Member of the European Parliament
Dragoș Tudorache is a Member of the European Parliament and Vice-President of the Renew Europe Group. He is the LIBE rapporteur on the AI Act, and he sits on the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), the Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware (PEGA), the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE), and the European Parliament's Delegation for relations with the United States (D-US). He was the Chair of the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Age (AIDA).
Dragos began his career in 1997 as a judge in Romania. Between 2000 and 2005, he built and led the legal departments at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the UN missions in Kosovo. After working on justice and anticorruption at the European Commission Representation in Romania, supporting the country’s EU accession, he joined the Commission as an official and, subsequently, qualified for leadership roles in EU institutions, managing a number of units and strategic projects such as the Schengen Information System, Visa Information System, and the establishment of eu-LISA. 7
During the European migration crisis, Dragos was entrusted with leading the coordination and strategy Unit in DG-Home, the European Commission Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs, until he joined the Romanian Government led by Dacian Cioloș. Between 2015 and 2017, he served as Head of the Prime Minister’s Chancellery, Minister of Communications and for the Digital Society, and Minister of Interior. He was elected to the European Parliament in 2019. His current interests in the European Parliament include security and defence, artificial intelligence and new technologies, transatlantic issues, the Republic of Moldova, and internal affairs.
Katherine Harman-Stokes
Acting Director, Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties, United States Department of Justice
Katherine Harman-Stokes
Acting Director, Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties, United States Department of Justice
Ms. Harman-Stokes is the Acting Director of the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties (OPCL). The Office supports the Department’s Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer (CPCLO) and is responsible for helping ensure that the Department’s 42 components comply with the Privacy Act of 1974, E-Government Act, and other privacy-related laws, regulations, and policies. In her role, she also has a central policy-making role in the Department’s development and evaluation of legislative, regulatory, and other policy proposals affecting privacy, both domestically and internationally. She has directly participated in international negotiations designed to harmonize high standards for protection of privacy and civil liberties in the law enforcement and national security contexts. Before joining DOJ, she was the Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) at one of the U.S. financial regulators, where she was the first CPO and the senior advisor for ensuring data protection and privacy in all agency programs and operations. She has been a consultant to multinational companies on international data protection and privacy law, with a special expertise in biometrics, and was a corporate officer and Associate General Counsel at the company that owns the GMAT exam, where she oversaw the data protection and privacy program for the company’s operations in 110 countries. She has chaired various committees and working groups in the Federal Privacy Council and has hosted data privacy symposia. She also was an attorney at Hogan & Hartson LLP (now Hogan Lovells US), received her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law and her undergraduate degree from the American University School of International Service in Washington DC. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional-US and Government (CIPP/US, CIPP/G).
Kilian Gross
Head of Unit A2 Artificial Intelligence Policy Development and Coordination
Kilian Gross
Head of Unit A2 Artificial Intelligence Policy Development and Coordination
Since 16 of January 2020 Kilian Gross is Head of Unit A/2 in DG CNECT responsible for policy development and coordination with regard to Artificial Intelligence in the EU. Based on the work of the High-Level Expert Group the Unit has drafted a White Paper on Artificial Intelligence, which presents the options on how to promote the uptake of Artificial Intelligence and how to address at the same time the risks associated with certain uses of this new technology. Following a comprehensive public consultation in April 2021 the Unit proposed a legal framework aiming to address the risks generated by specific uses of AI. At the same time his Unit has updated the Coordinated Plan which supports the development and uptake of AI in the EU and searches to align national AI policies. The proposal for an AI-Act is currently negotiated with the co-legislators i.e. the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers. In parallel, the Unit ensures the implementation of the Coordinated Plan on AI.
Beside his work on AI, Kilian Gross lead the legal team, which has prepared and supported the negotiations of the proposal for a European Chips Act.
Beforehand since November 2015 Kilian Gross was a member of the Cabinet of Commissioner Oettinger. Within the Cabinet, he was mainly responsible for the Commission anti-fraud policy, DG HR and at an earlier stage for various digital files. Kilian Gross has started his career in the Commission in the Legal Service followed by five years in DG ENER where he worked on energy policy and on legal matters.
Prof. Ahmet Yozgatlıgil
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Industry and Technology, Republic of Turkey
Prof. Ahmet Yozgatlıgil
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Industry and Technology, Republic of Turkey
Prof. Dr. Ahmet YOZGATLIGİL was born in 1975, completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at METU Mechanical Engineering Department and his Ph.D. in energy at Drexel University, USA in 2005. He continued his studies as a faculty member at the University of Maryland in USA and as a researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
In 2007, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Middle East Technical University as a faculty member. He became Associate Professor in 2014 and Professor in 2019. He has been a visiting researcher at NASA Glenn Research Center, NIST and Argonne National Laboratory in USA, JAMIC (Japan Microgravity Center) in Japan and CNRS in France, where he worked on engine technologies and combustion.
Prof. Dr. Ahmet YOZGATLIGİL served as the Vice Rector responsible for research, innovation and internationalization at METU between 2016-2020 and as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of METU Teknokent. He served as the chairman of the board of directors and center director at Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center, and as a board member at METU MEMS Center and TÜBİTAK UZAY. He served as Vice President of TÜBİTAK and President of TÜBİTAK Marmara Research Center. YOZGATLIGİL also served as the President of the 47 membered EUREKA network, headquartered in Brussels, until June 2023.
Prof. Dr. Ahmet YOZGATLIGİL was appointed as Deputy Minister of Ministry of Industry and Technology on June 22, 2023.
YOZGATLIGİL, who is married with two children, has a good command of English.
Dr. Anna Christmann
Member of the Bundestag, Federal Government Coordinator for Aerospace, BMWK representative for the digital economy and start-ups, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
Dr. Anna Christmann
Member of the Bundestag, Federal Government Coordinator for Aerospace, BMWK representative for the digital economy and start-ups, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
Since 27 January 2022
Commissioner of BMWK for the Digital Economy and Start-ups
As of 5 January 2022
Federal Government Coordinator of German Aerospace Policy
Since 2017
Member of the German Bundestag
2013 -2017
Head of Office for the Minister and policy officer for fundamental policy issues in science policy at the Ministry for Science, Stuttgart
2008 – 2013
Academic working for various women’s networks and mentoring programmes, and at the Centre for Democracy at Zurich University
2008
Part of the constituency staff at the office of Theresia Bauer, Member of the State Parliament
2003
Member of ALLIANCE 90/THE GREENS
2002 - 2008
Student of political sciences, economics and mathematics (Heidelberg)
2008 - 2013
Doctoral thesis on ‘The limits of direct democracy’ at Bern University and the University of California
Gabriela Ramos
Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO
Gabriela Ramos
Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO
Gabriela Ramos is the Assistant Director-General for the Social and Human Sciences of UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) where she oversees the contributions of the institution to build inclusive and peaceful societies. Her agenda includes the achievement of social inclusion and gender equality, advancing youth development; promotion of values through sports; anti-racism and anti-discriminatory agenda and ethics of artificial intelligence. Her appointment at UNESCO allows her to continue supporting an agenda of inclusive growth, and the respect of human rights and human dignity.
Prior to this position, Ms. Ramos served as the Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20/G7/APEC in the OECD, contributing to the global agenda as well as leading the OECD's New Approaches to Economic Challenges, Inclusive Growth Initiative, Gender Strategy, and the work on well-being and children. In 2019, she launched the Business for Inclusive Growth (B4IG) platform, bringing together 40 major multinational companies committed to reducing inequalities.
Camilla Bustani
Director, International, Ofcom (UK communications regulator)
Camilla Bustani
Director, International, Ofcom (UK communications regulator)
Camilla Bustani is Director, International at Ofcom, where she is responsible for Ofcom’s international strategy across the sectors it regulates. She has been actively engaged in European and global regulatory debates in the communications sectors for nearly 20 years, with a particular interest in models of regulation and the development of multilateral regulatory networks. Prior to Ofcom, she worked as a lawyer in the communications, media and technology practice at Clifford Chance LLP in London, where she advised governments and regulators in developing countries on regulatory reform in the telecoms sector
Tine A. Larsen
President, National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) – Luxembourg
Tine A. Larsen
President, National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) – Luxembourg
Tine A. Larsen was appointed one of four commissioners of Luxembourg’s Data Protection Authority as of 1st November 2014 and assumes the presidency of the collegiate body.
She holds a Master in Law with a specialisation in commercial law from the University Robert Schumann in Strasbourg, France, and an MA in International Peace and Security from King’s College London.
She took the bar exam in Luxembourg in 1999 and practised as a lawyer before joining the Luxembourg Government Administration in 2003. After two years as an attaché with the Luxembourg Army Headquarters, she joined the National Rescue Services Agency. As of 2008, she was the head of its administrative, technical and medical division.
Mrs Larsen represents Luxembourg DPA at the European Data Protection Board. She is also a member of the national “Judicial Oversight Authority” (Autorité de contrôle judiciaire), the national “Information Commission” (Commission d’Accès aux documents), as well as an advisory member of the Luxembourg Human Rights Consultative Commission.
Werner Stengg
Member of Cabinet of EVP Margrethe Vestager - Europe fit for the Digital Age, and Commissioner for Competition, European Commission
Werner Stengg
Member of Cabinet of EVP Margrethe Vestager - Europe fit for the Digital Age, and Commissioner for Competition, European Commission
Werner Stengg, who joined the European institutions in 1996, is currently a cabinet expert on the cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, dealing with digital matters. Between 2006 and 2019, he held different head of unit positions across the European Commission, dealing with e-commerce and online platforms, public interest services, online gambling and postal services, and with the better regulation agenda.
Prior to that, he was involved in mainstreaming policy evaluation across the Commission, in the negotiation of bilateral and multilateral textile trade agreements, and in the negotiations on regulatory files in the areas of aviation and maritime transport.
He earned his doctoral degree in economics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.
Jennifer Dolan
Assistant Commissioner, Data Protection Commission – Ireland
Jennifer Dolan
Assistant Commissioner, Data Protection Commission – Ireland
Jennifer Dolan is an Assistant Commissioner at the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), with responsibility for children’s data protection policy. Since joining the DPC in 2017, Jennifer has led on a number of key projects, including the development and publication of the DPC’s Fundamentals for a Child-Oriented Approach to Data Processing guidance. Jennifer also represents the DPC on a regular basis at expert sub-group meetings of the European Data Protection Board ("EDPB"). As part of this European-level work, Jennifer is a co-rapporteur on the guidelines currently being produced on children’s data protection issues.
Jennifer holds an undergraduate degree and two master’s degrees from Dublin City University and the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
Karmela Holtgreve
Director General Strategy and Innovation, Deutsche Bundesbank
Karmela Holtgreve
Director General Strategy and Innovation, Deutsche Bundesbank
Born in 1984 in Split, Croatia
2004-2009
Degree in political science at Goethe University Frankfurt and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid with a focus on international relations and European politics
2009 – 2010
Trainee at Dow Jones News
2010 – 2011
Analyst at Hering Schuppener Consulting (now: Finsbury Glover Hering)
2012 – 2015
Deputy Head of Section, Internal Communication at Deutsche Bundesbank, Directorate General Communications
2016
Principal Communications Officer at European Central Bank, Directorate General Communications
2017- 2018
Management team, German G20 Presidency at Deutsche Bundesbank
2019-2023
Head of Strategic Office for Digitalisation and Head of Division Digital Transformation and Innovation
seit April 2023
Director General Strategy and Innovation
Amaryllis Verhoeven
Head of Unit – Digital transformation of industry, Deputy Director, DG GROW G / G3, European Commission
Amaryllis Verhoeven
Head of Unit – Digital transformation of industry, Deputy Director, DG GROW G / G3, European Commission
Dr. Amaryllis Verhoeven is Head of Unit for Digital Transformation of Industry in the Directorate General (DG) for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) at the European Commission (EU Commission). Before her current position, Dr. Verhoeven held different functions in the EU Commission related to Intellectual Property, Single Market and Energy files. She has also worked as an attorney with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. Dr. Verhoeven holds a Ph.D. in law and political philosophy from the University of Leuven, where she is also lecturing on a regular basis
Fred Langford
Director of Trust and Safety Technology, Ofcom
Fred Langford
Director of Trust and Safety Technology, Ofcom
Dr Fred Langford is Director of Technology – Online Safety, UK Communications Regulator Ofcom, a Visiting Professor at University of Suffolk, member of the REPHRAIN (Bristol University) and INHOPE (International Hotline Association) Advisory Boards. Fred is also a Non-Exec Director Games Ratings Authority, Trustee of the Lucy Faithful Foundation and Chair of the Global Online Regulators Network – Technical Workstream.
Prior to joining Ofcom Fred was Deputy CEO/CTO of Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and President of INHOPE (International Hotline Association) with his focus being on Internet Policy/Governance, Cybersecurity, Child Protection, Trust and Safety/Safeguarding Technologies, online crime prevention and effective regulation. His operational work was developing technical solutions and data sets for industry to implement into their architectures to reduce the risk of exposure to illegal content that has impacted upon billions of internet users.
Fred has 30 years’ experience across a variety of sectors (Commercial, CSO’s, Military and Regulatory) and a vast amount of experience across a multitude of technologies. Fred is also a founding Director of the UK Safer Internet Centre (UKSIC) and an expert advisor to UK and other Governments, Parliamentarians, The Commonwealth, Police and NGOs.
Costanza Iacomini
Head of Fintech Division, Bank of Italy
Costanza Iacomini
Head of Fintech Division, Bank of Italy
Costanza Iacomini, Head of the Fintech Division established in 2020 in the Retail payment instruments and services Directorate of Banca d’Italia; the FinTech Division - among other things - is in charge of coordinating the activities of the innovation facilitators managed by Banca d’Italia. She is currently member of the European Commission’s European Forum for Innovation Facilitators and has extensive experience in regulation and oversight of payment services and payment instruments
Alain Otaegui
Policy Expert, European Banking Authority (EBA)
Alain Otaegui
Policy Expert, European Banking Authority (EBA)
Alain Otaegui is a Policy Expert at the Digital Finance Unit at the EBA, where he is working on a range of files relating to financial innovation, with a focus on crypto-assets, DeFi and AI. Alain is currently leading the work on AI policy, coordinating the EBA’s assessment and stance on the implications of the AI Act for the European banking sector and the EBA’s monitoring of the adoption levels of the different AI techniques by banks, including Generative AI. Alain is also contributing to EBA’s policy development and supervisory preparedness under MiCAR, and is coordinating the EBA’s work on DeFi. Following academic training in law and economics, and a Master’s in geopolitics, he has previously served as a policy adviser in digital finance for the private sector in Spain and Belgium.
Yordanka Ivanova
AI Policy Development and Coordination Unit, DG CNECT, European Commission
Yordanka Ivanova
AI Policy Development and Coordination Unit, DG CNECT, European Commission
Yordanka Ivanova is a Legal and Policy Officer in the European Commission (DG CNECT, A2) in the unit responsible for Artificial Intelligence Police Development and Coordination. She is a member of the legal team who has drafted the Commission proposal for a Regulation on AI and has followed the negotiations with the European Parliament and the Council. Ms Ivanova also follows relevant international work on AI, in particular in the context of Council of Europe, UN and OECD.
Outside the Commission, Ms Ivanova has experience as a researcher and attorney-at-law, advising companies on EU regulations, including in the area of data protection, consumer protection, digital services, financial services, cybersecurity and copyright.
Adv Collen Weapond
Commissioner, Information Regulator (South Africa)
Adv Collen Weapond
Commissioner, Information Regulator (South Africa)
Johannes Collen Weapond is an admitted Advocate of the High Court of South Africa. His areas of specialization include information technology, risk management, forensic investigation, compliance management, business management as well as law with a specialization in the law of contracts. Amongst other Johannes hold the following qualifications, a B. Iuris, LLB (UNISA), B.Com (Honours IT) (UCT), B. Tech in Policing (TUT), Diploma in Education III (RCE), Diploma in Compliance Management (UJ), Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Forensics (Coursework) (UCT), Certificate in Fraud Examination (Cum Laude) (UP), Certificate in Policing (TUT), Masters in Business Systems (Coursework Completed).
Johannes is currently serving as the Chairperson of the Audit Committee of the Office of the Premier in the Eastern Cape and Chairperson of the Risk Management Committee of the Department of Telecommunication and Postal Services. He also serves as a member of the Audit Committee of the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services, the Limpopo Provincial Audit Committee, Freestate Provincial Audit Committee, Wholesale and Retail SETA, Freestate Department of Education. He is also a member of the Council of the University of Mpumalanga (UMP) and the Chairperson of the Strategy Subcommittee. He was appointed as the Independent Expert for Legal and ICT at the Quality Council for Trade and Occupation (QCTO).
Furthermore, Johannes served as a Non-Executive Director (Member of the Board) of the National Lotteries Commission and as the Chairperson of Risk Management Committee, Legal, Request for Proposal Subcommittee and Ad hoc Legal Subcommittees of the Board. He also served as a member of the Cybersecurity Advisory Council of South Africa, a member of the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) and a member of the Appeals Committee of Council. Lastly, Johannes also served as a Non-Executive Director and Coordinator of the Audit Function at Brakpan Bus Company (BBC), member of the Audit Committee of the National Department of Human Settlements, member of Council of the Forestry Advisory Council, member of Council of the Heraldry Council.
Arvind Gupta
President, Digital India Foundation
Arvind Gupta
President, Digital India Foundation
Arvind Gupta is the Head and Co-Founder of Digital India Foundation, a policy think tank working in areas of Digital Inclusion, Smart Cities, Internet Governance, Data Privacy & Cyber Security, Electronics Manufacturing. He is an Adjunct Professor at IIT-BHU, teaching “Data and Digital Economy”.
He has over 27 years of industry experience, having worked in diverse sectors in variety of leadership, policy and entrepreneurial profiles in India and Silicon Valley, USA. He has considerable experience in Consumer Internet, Digital Media, Payment Systems, Analytics and Data Economy. He has been on the Global FinTech Top100 list of Influencers and also the Member of World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Digital Economy & Society, OECD Expert Member of Global Value Chains. He has been awarded the Eisenhower Global Fellowship for Innovation for year 2014.
He has been awarded the DataQuest Pathbreaker of the year award and Distinguished Centenary Alumni award from IIT-BHU.
In his last role, he was the CEO of MyGov, an initiative of the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, to Empower Citizens of India with Participative Governance and Digitally communicate Schemes and Policies to all Indians.
He led the Digital, Social Media and Communication Campaign for PM Narendra Modi, which resulted in PM Modi creating electoral history and achieving its Mission 272+ in 2014 Elections.
He is Member of Founder’s Circle of iSPiRT, which has worked extensively on the "IndiaStack". He is one of the thought leaders in implementing DBT throughout India. He is an active member of TiE, NASSCOM and Founder Member of iSPiRT. He also co-founded startups such as amplify.ai, ApnaPay, Ideaswall amongst others. Mr. Gupta is also a frequent speaker at various industry and Global forums. He is visiting faculty at IIT, Management Schools, Innovation Forums and has published many articles on #DigitalEconomy, Value of Data, #GovTech in leading papers of India, Harvard Business Review and World Economic Forum.
Mr. Gupta graduated with a degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from IIT-BHU, Varanasi. He has a Masters in Computer Science and MBA (Finance & Marketing) from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Anja Wyrobek
Legal Policy Advisor to MEP Birgit Sippel (LIBE Coordinator and former Vice-Chair of the AIDA Committee), European Parliament
Anja Wyrobek
Legal Policy Advisor to MEP Birgit Sippel (LIBE Coordinator and former Vice-Chair of the AIDA Committee), European Parliament
Anja Wyrobek is a legal professional respected for her extensive expertise in the intersection of law, policymaking, and emerging technologies within the domains of artificial intelligence, digitalisation and data protection. Currently based in the European Parliament, Anja Wyrobek aids her MEP who notably served as the former Vice-Chair of the Artificial Intelligence Committee in shaping legislation focusing on promoting digital rights and regulating AI for a successful digital transition
Cecilia Alvarez Rigaudias
Director of Privacy Policy Engagement, EMEA at Meta
Cecilia Alvarez Rigaudias
Director of Privacy Policy Engagement, EMEA at Meta
Cecilia Aalvarez Rigaudias is the EMEA Privacy Policy Director at Facebook since March 2019. From 2015 to 2019, she served as European Privacy Officer Lead of Pzifer, Vice-Chair of the EFPIA Data Protection Group and Chairwoman of IPPC-Europe. For an interim period, she was also the Legal Lead of the Spanish Pfizer subsidiaries. She formerly worked 18 years in a reputed Spanish law firm, leading the data protection, IT and ecommerce areas of practice as well as the LATAM Data Protection Working Group.
Cecilia was the Chairwoman of APEP (Spanish Privacy Professional Association) until June and is currently in charge of its international affairs. She is also the Spanish member of CEDPO (Confederation of European Data Protection Organisations) and member of the Leadership Council of The Sedona Conference (W-6).
She is a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation in the section of the Law on Technologies of the Information and the Knowledge as well as Arbitrator of the European Association of Arbitration (ITC Section).
She formed part of the Volunteer Group of Privacy Experts of the OECD (Working Party on information Security and Privacy; WPISP) in charge of the 2013 review of the OECD guidelines governing the protection of privacy and transborder data flows of personal data. She formerly participated in the Group of Experts selected by the Spanish DPA to prepare the Madrid Resolution on International Privacy Standards in 2009.
Cecilia has written numerous publications on data protection and regularly lectures on data protection, IT and ecommerce at different Masters Programs and seminars.
Andy Phippen
Professor of Online Harms, University of Bournemouth
Andy Phippen
Professor of Online Harms, University of Bournemouth
Andy Phippen is a Professor of Digital Rights at the Bournemouth University and is a Visiting Professor at the University of Suffolk in the UK. He has specialised in the use of ICTs in social contexts and the intersection with legislation for almost 20 years, carrying out a large amount of grass roots research on issues such as attitudes toward privacy and data protection, internet safety and contemporary issues such as sexting, peer abuse and the impact of digital technology on wellbeing. He has presented written and oral evidence to parliamentary inquiries related to the use of ICTs in society, is widely published in the area and is a frequent media commentator on these issues.
Mira Burri
Professor of International Economic and Internet Law, University of Lucerne
Mira Burri
Professor of International Economic and Internet Law, University of Lucerne
Mira Burri is Professor of International Economic and Internet Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. Mira’s current research interests are in the areas of digital trade, copyright, data protection and data governance. Mira is the principal investigator of the project ‘Trade Law 4.0’ (ERC Consolidator Grant 2021–2026). She consults the European Parliament, UNESCO, the WEF and others on issues of digital innovation.
Nicolas de Bouville
Privacy Policy Manager, Meta
Nicolas de Bouville
Privacy Policy Manager, Meta
Nicolas de Bouville has a background in international and European law. He studied at the University of Amsterdam, from which he holds a Master's degree in international and European Law and at Nanterre University, from which he holds a Master's degree in technology and information society law.
Nicolas started his career at the French data protection authority, the CNIL, in the international and European affairs department. In this role, he dealt with a variety of topics related to data protection, including international data transfers and the negotiations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
In 2017, Nicolas joined Meta, where he is currently in the Privacy Policy team. He is actively following the developments of the EU AI Act.
Natascha Gerlach
Director of Privacy Policy, Center of information Policy Leadership (CIPL)
Natascha Gerlach
Director of Privacy Policy, Center of information Policy Leadership (CIPL)
Natascha Gerlach holds the position of Director of Privacy Policy for the Center of information Policy Leadership (CIPL) in Brussels. Her work is focused on a range of privacy and data related topics including cross-border data flows, AI, data ethics and data governance. Before joining CIPL, Natascha was a Senior Attorney with Cleary Gottlieb in their Brussels office, where she headed Cleary’s European eDiscovery group leveraging her experience in US eDiscovery by implementing new technologies and operationalizing the team. Natascha was also a senior member of Cleary’s Data Privacy group and advised clients on a wide array of data privacy issues, with a special focus on the cross section of international discovery and data protection. Natascha is Chair Emerita of The Sedona Conference Working Group 6 on International Electronic Information Management, Discovery and Disclosure (WG6) Steering Committee. She is on the advisory board for the Georgetown Law AEDI and has been on the ABA CBI Steering Committee since its inception in 2017. Natascha publishes regularly on data protection topics and is a frequent speaker at relevant conferences.
Jannah Patchay
Executive Director and Policy Lead, Digital Pound Foundation
Jannah Patchay
Executive Director and Policy Lead, Digital Pound Foundation
Jannah Patchay is an Executive Director and Policy Lead for the Digital Pound Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation launched in 2021 to advocate for the introduction of a well-designed digital Pound in both publicly and privately issued forms, and for an effective, diverse and competitive ecosystem for new forms of digital money in the UK and globally. Jannah is also the founder of Markets Evolution, a consultancy specialising in financial markets innovation and regulatory strategy. Over the years she has provided advisory, consulting, and delivery services to a wide cross-section of market participants including exchanges, tier-1 investment banks, brokers, funds, and start-up businesses. Her passion lies in building the financial markets of the future, harnessing frontier technologies to create new and innovative financial services and products that can promote wider social and environmental benefit, and greater access to financial services
Lisa Robinson
Online Safety Policy Analyst in the Science, Technology and Innovation Directorate, OECD
Lisa Robinson
Online Safety Policy Analyst in the Science, Technology and Innovation Directorate, OECD
Lisa works as an Online Safety Policy Analyst in the Science, Technology and Innovation Directorate at the OECD. A children’s rights lawyer, Lisa worked on the development and subsequent implementation of the OECD’s Recommendation on Children in the Digital Environment. As part of this work she has extensive experience analysing legal and policy responses to the needs of children in the digital environment as well as considering child rights implications of the evolving digital environment. Outside of the OECD, Lisa has worked on a number of different child rights and policy issues both at the domestic and international level, and she has also worked as a lecturer in the law faculties in Universities in both Australia and France.