Andres Lombana-Bermudez
Andres is an assistant professor of communication at Universidad Javeriana, an associate researcher at the Centro de Internet y Sociedad de la Universidad del Rosario (ISUR), and a faculty associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.
Andres é professor assistente de comunicação na Universidad Javeriana, pesquisador associado do Centro de Internet y Sociedad de la Universidad del Rosario (ISUR) e professor associado do Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society da Universidade de Harvard.
Armando Guio Español
I am a lawyer with a Masters of Law from Harvard Law School (LL.M. '16) and a Master of Public Policy from Oxford University (MPP '18). I designed and worked on the implementation of Colombia's AI Strategy. I have also contributed to AI public initiatives in Chile, Brazil, Peru and Argentina, and design UNESCO's AI strategy in Latin-America. Currently, I'm a Consultant of CAF-Development Bank of Latin-Amercia in AI policy design and implementation.
Auxane Boch
Auxane Boch is a doctoral candidate at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) school of management and an associate researcher at the TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (TUM IEAI). Her research focuses on accountability of AI systems, culture and perception of ethics, social robotics, video games, and education. Additionally, she is a Beyond Fellow at the TUM International Future Lab in the AI for Earth Observation's ethics team. Finally, Auxane works profusely with the Women in AI group, and is a Women in Games ambassador.
Beatriz Botero
Dr. Beatriz Botero Arcila is an Assistant Professor of law in the digital information economy at Sciences Po Law School and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Her research and expertise focus on data governance in urban environments and how different governance frameworks have different impacts on people's lives. Recent work has explored modes of data governance in smart city projects, the sharing economy, and Covid contact tracing apps.
She is currently studying surveillance technologies adopted to provide public security both in Europe and the US and how they interact with other public interests (i.e. civil liberties) and institutional frameworks and incentives.
Carlos Affonso Souza
Has a PhD and a Master’s Degree in Civil Law from Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ). He is a Law professor at UERJ and at Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio), where he teaches Law & Technology, Contract Law, and History of Law. Carlos Affonso is a visiting researcher at the Information Society Project from Yale Law School. He is a member of the Copyright Commission at Rio de Janeiro Bar Exam Institute (OAB/RJ) since 2007 and a Policy Fellow at the nonprofit organization Access. He is a Consultant at the Brazilian Internet Observatory, an initiative that stemmed from the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br). He is one of the Co-founders and a Director of the Institute for Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro (ITS Rio).
Carolina Rossini
Carolina Rossini is the Director of Partnerships and Research at the Datasphere Initiative. Carolina has more than 20 years of experience in technology and telecom law, policy, and non-profit management, strategy, and development. She is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a Boston University Law School law lecturer. She has worked for companies, including Telefónica and Facebook, and various non-profits, including Public Knowledge, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Wikimedia Foundation. She worked for Prof. Yochai Benkler as a 3-year fellow and Project Coordinator at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. She is the co-founder of and serves as a senior advisor to Portulans Institute, where she was the CEO for its 2 first years, and is a board member of InternetLab (Brazil), Derechos Digitales (Chile), #IamtheCode (Global), and Instituto EducaDigital (Brazil). She is a lawyer, who graduated from the University of Sao Paulo – FADUSP (2000). She has the following Master’s degrees: MBA from Instituto de Empresa (2004), International Economic Relations (Santiago Dantas – UNICAMP/UNESP – 2005), LL.M. in Intellectual Property from Boston University (2008).
Celina Bottino
Celina has a Master’s Degree in Human Rights from Harvard University and Undergraduate Degree in Law from Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio). She is an expert on human rights and technology. She was a researcher at the Human Rights Watch in New York and a Supervisor at the Human Rights Clinic in Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV Rio). Celina was a consultant for the Harvard Human Rights Clinic and a researcher at ISER. An Associate of the Children’s and Adolescent’s Rights Protection in Rio de Janeiro. Celina is currently developing research in the human rights and technology field. She is affiliated with Harvard's Berkman Klein Center and Project Director at the Institute for Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro (ITS).
Christian Fieseler
Christian Fieseler is professor for communication management at BI Norwegian Business School and a director of the Nordic Centre for Internet and Society. Christian’s research is focused on the question of how individuals and organizations adapt to the shift brought by new, digital media, and how to design participative and inclusive spaces in this new media regime.
Ciro Ferreira
Ciro Eduardo Ferreira is a Brasília-based Diplomat at the Division of Digital Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil as of 2020. He has worked with digital economy issues, including Artificial Intelligence and connectivity infrastructure. Previously he had worked as a Science and Technology analyst at the Ministry of Science and Technology (2013-2019). He holds a Master of Arts degree in International Relations at the University of Brasilia (2012).
Christian Perrone
Fulbright Scholar (Georgetown University, USA), a Ph.D. candidate in International Law and Digital Law (UERJ), LL.M. in International Law (University of Cambridge, UK), and LL.B. in International Human Rights Law from the European University Institute (EUI, Italy). Former Secretary of the Inter-American Juridical Committee of the Organization of American States (OAS) and expert in Human Rights with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. He is a Public Policy Consultant with ITS and heads the organization’s Law and Technology and GovTech departments.
Pesquisador Fulbright (Universidade de Georgetown, EUA), Doutorando (UERJ) em Direito Internacional e Direito Digital; Mestre - LL.M.- em Direito Internacional (Universidade de Cambridge, Reino Unido); Diplomado em Direito Internacional dos Direitos Humanos pelo Instituto Universitário Europeu (EUI, Itália). Ex-secretário da Comissão Jurídica Interamericana da OEA e especialista em Direitos Humanos da Comissão Interamericana de Direitos Humanos e da Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos. Atualmente, advogado, consultor de Políticas Públicas e Head das áreas de Direito e Tecnologia e GovTech do ITS.
Christoph Lutz
Christoph Lutz (Dr. oec., University of St. Gallen, Switzerland) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway. He is also the codirector of the Nordic Centre for Internet and Society, a leading Internet and Society research center in Europe. His research interests include digital inequality, social media, privacy, the sharing economy and social robots. Christoph has published widely on these topics in top-tier journals such as New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, Big Data & Society, Social Media + Society, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, JASIST, Communications of the ACM, and Science and Engineering Ethics.
Diego Cerqueira
Software Engineer, graduated in Information Systems, MSc student in Systems and Computer Engineering (PESC-COPPE) at UFRJ. He was Researcher and Technical Leader at ITS Rio, where he built civic innovations such as Mudamos +, LGPDJus and Pegabot. Currently Web Specialist at NIC.br's Ceweb.br, working with Internet Governance and Internet public policies, developing projects focused on Artificial Intelligence and dissemination of open Web Technologies. He is a Strategic Advisor at data_labe and a Fellow at the Instituto de Identidades do Brasil (ID_BR).
Elisabeth Sylvan
Dr. Elisabeth (“Lis") Sylvan is the Managing Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Dr. Sylvan’s lifelong interest is in sociotechnical systems that support creativity, shared knowledge, and collaboration. At BKC she oversees the operations of all efforts outside of independent faculty projects, leads a variety of educational and research initiatives on youth, technology and learning, and spearheads new educational programs such as the Digital Self Determination project and Research Sprints. Previously Lis was the Vice President of Education at The Tech Interactive in Silicon Valley and a Research Scientist at the education R&D firm, TERC. Dr. Sylvan holds a Master's and PhD from the MIT Media Lab.
Diogo Cortiz
Diogo Cortiz is a Researcher at the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br) and Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). He holds a PhD in Technologies of Intelligence and Digital Design from PUC-SP, with a PhD fellowship from Universite Paris I - Sorbonne. Specialist in Neuroscience and Behavior at PUC-RS. He did a post-doc research in VR and Metaverse at the University of Salamanca (Spain) and was a visiting researcher at the Cognitive Science Lab at Queen Mary University of London. He has researches at the intersection of Design and AI focused to understand human behavior in digital universe.
Ellen Hohma
Ellen Hohma is a researcher at the Technical University of Munich’s Institute for Ethics in AI and doctoral candidate at the TUM Chair of Business Ethics. She holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Management & Technology from TUM and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). In her research she investigates through various practice-related projects together with industry partners such as Fujitsu, Munich RE or Celonis how AI systems and their operators can meet responsibilities and accountability obligations through technical or non-technical methods.
Danilo Doneda
Attorney. Professor at IDP. Director of Cedis/IDP. Member of the National Council for Data Protection and Privacy. Member of the Board of Directors of IAPP - International Association of Privacy Professionals
Franziska Poszler
Franziska Poszler is a PhD student and research associate at the Chair of Business Ethics at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. She works in an interdisciplinary team on the research project "Autonomous Driving Ethics", which investigates how to incorporate ethical decision-making into the logic of automated vehicles. In her doctoral thesis, she explores implementation possibilities and the admissibility of operationalizing/implementing ethical theories within technologies. Educational background: Franziska completed her Bachelor's degrees in Philosophy as well as in Business Administration with a minor in Psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. She received her Master's degree in "Organisational Behaviour" from the London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK.
Gemma Newlands
PhD Candidate at University of Amsterdam and Stipendiary Fellow at the Nordic Centre for Internet & Society
Janaina Costa
She is a lawyer, researcher, Bachelor of Laws from UFMG and Master in Economic and Social Development from IEDES - Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She served as a civil lawyer, tax officer and director of the Minas Gerais SEC Board of Arrangements and Accountability. He also carried out local development projects in consulting for French city hall and organizations. Today she works as a researcher and is interested in innovative public policies that contribute to the satisfaction, promotion and protection of human rights.
Kari Laumann
Kari Laumann is project manager for the Norwegian Data Protection Authority’s (NDPA) Regulatory Sandbox for Privacy and AI. The sandbox is one of several initiatives in the Norwegian Government’s National Strategy for AI where the aim is to stimulate innovative and responsible AI. Laumann has several years of experience from the NDPA as a social scientist with a focus on strategy, analysis and policy development. She led the work with the report on AI and privacy that the NDPA launched in 2018.
Laura Schertel
Visiting Researcher at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt with the Capes Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship; Private Law professor and lawyer. Privacy and data protection expert. PhD at Humboldt University of Berlin.
Marina Gonçalves Garrote
Researcher at the Data Privacy Brasil Research Association. Master's student in Civil Procedure at the University of São Paulo. Specialist in Gender and Sexuality by the Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights of the Institute of Social Medicine of the State University of Rio de Janeiro. Lawyer in São Paulo. Co-author of the policy paper "Between visibility and exclusion" (2022).
Mariana Valente
Professor of Law at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), director of InternetLab. She is a lawyer, PhD in legal sociology at the USP Law School, and is a member of the Senate Committee of Jurists on Artificial Intelligence.
Micaela Mantegna
Known as the “Abogamer”, Micaela Mantegna is a lawyer and activist specialized in video games and XR policy, artificial creativity and AI ethics.
Currently a TED Fellow and an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard, her research focuses on metaverse ethics and governance; generative artificial intelligence, creativity and copyright. She was part of the external red team that contributed to evaluate OpenAI’s DALL·E 2 Preview and her TED talk, “How to stop the metaverse from becoming the internet's bad sequel” has gathered over 400k views.
She has authored several articles and papers at the intersection of gaming, ethics, XR, creativity and artificial intelligence. Her first book "ARTficial: creativity, artificial intelligence and copyright" is currently on press, forthcoming September 2022.
Miriam Wimmer
PhD in Communication from UnB, Master in Public Law and graduated in Law from UERJ. Certified as a specialist in personal data protection (Europe) by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (CIPP/E). Professor of the Master's and Doctorate program in Law at IDP-Brasilia. She has been a public servant since 2007, part of Anatel's career as a Specialist in Regulation of Public Telecommunications Services. She has held different management positions at the Ministry of Communications-MC and at the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications-MCTIC, where she coordinated the elaboration of the Brazilian Strategy for Digital Transformation and the first formulation of the Brazilian Strategy for Artificial Intelligence. Member of the Senate Jurists Committee for drafting a bill on Artificial Intelligence. She is currently Director of the National Data Protection Authority-ANPD.
Nina Desgranges
M.A. student at the Graduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology (PPGSA), at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Since 2019, she has been a researcher at the Digital Studies Laboratory (LED-IFCS) and the Latin American Network of Studies on Surveillance, Technology and Society (Lavits), where she researches delivery work and platformization. She is a member of the editorial committee of Revista Habitus and is vice-coordinator of “Acontece no IFCS”, producing scientific dissemination content for social media. She works as a volunteer in subnational policy coding in Brazil, in the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) project at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. She has an interest in digital antropology, sociology of technology and experience with digital methods and qualitative research, in particular digital ethnography. At ITS, she is a Junior Researcher for GovTech.
Nuria López
PhD in Theory and Philosophy of Law at PUC-SP and Head of Technology, Privacy and Data Protection at Daniel Advogados
Rafael Grohmann
Assistant professor of media studies with focus on critical platform and data studies at University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC), with a graduate cross-appointment at the Faculty of Information (iSchool). Director of DigiLabour Initiative. Researcher of Fairwork project. Editorial Board Member of Big Data & Society and Work, Employment and Society journals. Member of Scholars Council, Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2), UCLA. Founding Board Member of Labor Tech Research Network. His research interests include platform cooperativism and worker-owned platforms, work & AI, datafication, workers' organization, platform labor, communication and work. He holds a PhD in Communication from the University of São Paulo.
Samson Esayas
Dr. Samson Esayas is an associate professor at BI Norwegian Business School and teaches a wide range of topics on law and technology including privacy and data protection, LegalTech, and EU competition law. His research focuses on the interplay between law, technology and markets as regulatory tools, with a particular emphasis on tackling harms from data power using data privacy and competition laws.
Sandra Cortesi
Dr. Sandra Cortesi is the Director of the Youth and Media project at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. At Youth and Media Sandra collaborates closely with talented young people (ages 12-18) and engages with researchers in the field who share an interest in exploring innovative ways to understand, evaluate, and shape current and future social challenges emerging in the digital world. Sandra’s current work focuses on (interconnected) areas of youth’s life, including information quality and the news ecosystem; well-being; risks to safety and privacy; the future of work, digital skills, and lifelong learning; emerging technologies (e.g., AI, AR, VR); and spaces for youth participation, civic engagement, and innovation.
Sabelo Mhlambi
Sabelo Mhlambi is the founder of Bhala, an AI startup that democratizes the advances of AI to millions of Africans through Natural Language Processing of African languages and African visual languages. He is also the founder of Bantucracy a public interest organization that focuses on ubuntu ethics and technology. Mr Mhlambi currently a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society , a Fellow at Stanford’s Digital Civil Society Lab, and a 2019-2020 Technology & Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
Sarah Newman
Sarah Newman is Director of Art & Education at metaLAB at Harvard, at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Working at the intersection of research and art, her work engages with technology’s role in human experience. In addition to her art practice, she is also an educator, and leads creative workshops to address interdisciplinary research problems. Newman's work has been exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Berlin, Rome, and London, and she has held artist residencies in Germany, Sweden, and Italy. Her research in Artificial Intelligence and related technologies investigates how emerging technologies embed and mirror historical social and ethical challenges. She is Co-Founder of the Data Nutrition Project, which designs tools and practices for responsible AI development. Newman holds a BA in Philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA in Imaging Arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Newman was a 2017 AI Grant Fellow, a 2018 & 2021 Harvard Assembly Fellow, a 2018-2020 Fellow at the Royal Society of Art, a 2019 Rockefeller AI Bellagio Resident, and the 2019-2020 artist-in-residence at Northeastern University’s School of Law. She is a current grantee of the National Endowment for the Arts working on a project at the intersection of technology and criminal justice.
Shaun Pather
Shaun Pather is Professor and Chair of the Department of Information Systems, and the Deputy Dean for Research in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of the Western Cape. He is an NRF-rated researcher and Fulbright Scholar whose expertise and associated praxis concern the advancement of the Information Society in developing societal contexts. His work focuses on the design and deployment of ICT-facilitated interventions to advance societal and economic objectives across developing counties. In this regard, Shaun has been involved in several proof of concept interventions to deliver digital divide solutions to marginalized communities. He has published widely on ICT for Development (ICT4D), E-Government and IT Evaluation and is currently an advocate for the perpetuation of human rights within the application of emerging 4IR innovation.
Silvana Bahia
Silvana Bahia is co-executive director of Olabi, coordinator of PretaLab - an initiative to encourage black women in technologies and innovation. Master in Culture and Territorialities from UFF, Associate Researcher at the Art and Artificial Intelligence group at USP. In 2022 she was named one of the 100 most important innovators in the world by The Future Laboratory in England. In 2021, it received the Protagonista Brasil, Digital Country award, which recognizes leaders from the public and private sectors, as well as from civil society, who have stood out for their work in projects and social impact actions in the area of information technology in themes focused on transformation. digital and inclusive of the country.
Susan E. Hendrickson
Susan E. Hendrickson is Executive Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard and a Lecturer at Harvard Law School. Her work focuses on emerging and disruptive technology and its implications for democracy, human rights and the public interest. Her experience tackling complex legal, commercial, and public policy issues in emerging tech spans three decades and encompasses a wide array of technologies, including social media, AI, communications and networking technologies, autonomous systems, biotech, fintech, digital education, semiconductors, Web 3.0, and AR/VR/XR technologies. Sue serves on the board of Human Rights First and as an advisor to its Innovation Lab. Prior to Berkman Klein, Sue was a partner at Arnold & Porter, where she co-headed the Technology and Life Sciences Transactions practices. She is a graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School, and was an editor on the Harvard Law Review.
Urs Gasser
Dean, TUM School of Social Sciences & Technology
Vanessa Gonçalves de Almeida Rosa
Vanessa Rosa is a US based Brazilian visual artist and art historian. Her work merges physical and digital media into a storytelling continuum. Murals become portals to an imaginary world with projection mapping, ceramics metamorphose into living entities with the aid of AI models. She creates fictional tales about world history, past and possible futures intertwined. Vanessa is one of the organizers of Mars College, an educational program, R&D lab, and off-grid residential community dedicated to cultivating a low-cost, high-tech lifestyle. She is also the creator of Little Martians, a sci-fi universe merging ceramics, 3d scans and AI.
Yasodara Cordova
Acts as Principal Privacy Researcher at Unico, IDTech pioneer and leader in digital identity solutions in Brazil. She is MC/MPA Ford Foundation Mason Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University (USA) and was also a member of TikTok's Security Advisory Board in Brazil. Yasodara has been an Internet privacy activist for over 15 years, having worked in the federal government, academia, the private sector, and as a Senior Consultant to the World Bank to implement security and privacy projects in several countries.