Leadership

(Germany) Principal Adviser on Justice Policy at EU Commission; Member of German Data Ethics Commission, member of the Global Council on Extended Intelligence; Visiting Professor of Law, College of Europe. Former Director of Fundamental rights and Union citizenship and Principal Advisor at the Directorate-General Justice of the European Commission. Formerly responsible for leading work on the GDPR and the EU–US Privacy Shield, data protection, and privacy in the law enforcement and national security context.

Global AI Ethics and Regulatory Leader at Ernest Young, one of the five largest consultancies in the world. Chair of IEEE Working Group P7003 Standard for Algorithm Bias Considerations. Trustee and 5Rights Foundation. Member of the AI Ethics Board, Hayden AI.

(The Gambia) Amb. Prof. Muhammadou M.O. Kah serves as Ambassador Extraordinary and plenipotentiary of The Gambia to Switzerland and permanent representative of The Gambia to the United Nations organisations at Geneva (UNOG), WTO and other International Organisations in Switzerland. He served as Vice Chancellor/Rector of The University of the Gambia and was the 3rd and first Gambian born to provide leadership for the University of The Gambia; Provost /vice President for Academic Affairs at American University of Nigeria, Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria; Vice Rector for Technology and Innovation and Founding Dean. School of IT and Engineering at the ADA University, Baku, Azerbaijan. He also served as founding chairman at Zenith Bank Gambia Limited, a subsidiary of Zenith Bank in The Gambia; Governing Board of The African University of Science and Technology, Abuja, Nigeria; founding Board member of The International Digital Health and AI Research Collaborative (I-DAIR), Geneva, Switzerland and Governing Council Member of DCAF-Geneva Center For Security sector Governance Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland.
Amb. Prof. Kah served as the past Chairman of the Africa Group of Ambassadors at Geneva (April 2021- Sept. 2021) and served as the Vice President (Africa) for the UN Human Rights Council (2022 and 2023); Vice Chairman for UNCTAD’s Commission on Science and Technology Development and a member of the Advisory Board of the UNCTAD Trade and Development Bureau (TDB) (June 2021-July 2023). Amb. Prof. Kah served as one of two Ambassadors designated as Friends of the Chair of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) General Assembly and serves as one of the Vice Chairs of the General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Member of the United Nations High-Level Advisory Board for Artificial. Member of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group of the African Internet Government Forum. As a legal and political researcher, Farahat has 20 published articles related to international refugee law, statelessness, politics, democracy, parliamentary studies, digital rights, and internet governance.

AI policy researcher at Control.AI. Former AI Governance Researcher at Center for AI Safety, Berkeley, California. Former Analyst at Stanford Existential Risks Initiative. Graduated Phi Beta Kappa in Psychology from Harvard University.

Senior Policy Analyst at New America Foundation. Former Senior researcher at Princeton University. Fullbright Fellow. Senior expert in global AI governance and geopolitics.

(Argentina) Chair of the Outreach Committee of the World Federalist Movement. International Director of the United Nations Parliamentary Assembly Model. Executive Director of the NGO Democracia Global – Movimiento por la Unión Sudamericana y el Parlamento Mundial. She is the Coordinator of the campaign for the creation of a Latin American and Caribbean Criminal Court against Transnational Organized Crime (COPLA). A Parliamentary Advisor in the Honorable Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Republic. She is a tango teacher.

Tjerk Timan is a Phd scientist specialised in Trustworthy AI, digital privacy and security. Principal Consultant in Technopolis Group. Formerly Senior Scientist Strategy & Policy for AI at TNO Group.

(USA) Chief Strategy Officer of Ericom. Previously, he was Chief Cryptologic Technician of the NSA - National Security Agency, where he lead multiple operations technical team in projects with the FBI and CIA. Previously Vice-President and Principal Analyst of Forrester Research. Creator of the Zero Trust eXtended framework, Director of Threat Intelligence of Armor. Director of Cyber Analytics of Decisive Analytics.

(Germany) A European and German politician, widely renowned for his activism in digital civil rights. As a EU parliamentarian, he served as Vice-Chair of the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. From 2018 to 2022, he served as Minister for Energy, Agriculture, the Environment, Nature and Digitalization of the German State of Schleswig-Holstein. He is member of NOYB – European Center for Digital Rights, lead by Max Schrems. Currently, he serves as President of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, a foundation promoting the environment, civil rights and multilateral democracy with 180 staff in 30 countries.

(UK/Russia) Leading global cybersecurity executive and expert in the financial sector. Formerly Chief Cybersecurity Architect at Lloyds Banking Group, Principal Security Architect at VISA. He is PhD candidate in Physics from University of St. Petersburg. Russia He holds dozens of patents in physics and cyberdefence. As a UK, Canadian and Russian citizen, he is an activist in promoting freedom of speech, and bringing peace in the ongoing global propaganda and informational superiority war.

(Finland) Head of IT R&D at the ICRC international Committee fo the Red Cross. He was previously Global Vice-President of Cyber Security and Privacy at HUAWEI technologies. Before that he was Head of Business Security and Continuity at NOKIA for 13 years, and Member of ICT Security Advisory Board of the Republic of Finland. Previously a member of ENISA - European Network and Information Security Agency, and member of EU Commission NIS - Network and Information Security platform and EU Commission security advisory board (reporting to Commissar Redding) and Founding and Board Member of Trust In Digital Life.

Researcher on AI governance, including work with Collective Intelligence Project and research lead on 'The Recursive Public', funded by OpenAI's Democratic Inputs to AI grant. Co-Initiator of the Global Assembly for COP26. Former Public Policy programme at The Alan Turing Institute.

(Tunisia) Vice President of the North African School and Forum of Internet Governance. Member of the African Union Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group on Internet Governance.

(USA) Tenured Professor in Communication and Political Science at Stanford University. Director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy at Stanford University. In 1988, and deployed widely around the World and renowned as a method of public consultation, Deliberative Polling. His work focuses on deliberative democracy and democratic theory in books such as “When the People Speak” (2009), Deliberation Day (2004 with Bruce Ackerman) and Democracy and Deliberation (1991).

(USA) Professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University. World renowned academic leader in global democratic governance. From 2008-2014 the UN Human Rights Council Rapporteur on "the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories" (while being of Jewish descent). Chairman of the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Author or coauthor of over 20 books and the editor or co-editor of another 20 volumes. Leading academic and proponent of global democratic governance reform and institution building.

(Italy) An Italo-argentinian journalist, communication expert, political commentator, activist for social and climate justice and advocate of global governance. He co-founded in 1964 and lead Inter Press Service, turning it in the following decades into primary news agency of the Global South. he was Deputy Director of the Scientific Council of the World Policy Forum, founded by Mikhail Gorbachev. He is member of the International Committee of the World Social Forum since it was established in 2001. He is Responsible for international relations of the European Centre for Peace and Development, based in Belgrade. He was Chairman of the Board of the Alliance for a New Humanity. Member of the Governance Advisory Board of the Trustless Computing Association.

(Italy) World-renowned expert in global governance and global constituent processes towards accountable global institutions. He taught at the universities of Sussex, Naples, Cambridge, Rome Sapienza, Rome LUISS, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Harvard. Professor of Innovation, Governance and Public Policy at the University of London, Birkbeck College, School of Business, Economics and Informatics. Adviser to the European Union, Council of Europe, OECD, several UN agencies. Research Director at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Rome. Author of numerous books on global governance and UN reform.

(Switzerland) A seasoned IT security executive with 15 years of C-level experience. Chief Information Security Officer at Cryptyx AG, leading Swiss IT security consultancy. Formerly, Chief Information Security Officer at DHL Suisse, and before that Cyber Risk Engineering Global Practice Leader at Allianz Suisse. Previously, he was Managing Consultant IT Security at Detecon International and before that at Credit Suisse and PwC. Has a master in IT engineering from ZHAW School of Engineering. Holds over 15 international IT security degrees and certifications.

(India) Founder and former Executive Director of the Center for Information and Society, the leading digital civil rights NGO in India. Formerly director of the International Open Source Network, a project of United Nations Development Programme’s Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme serving 42 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Formerly, Public Policy Director - Data Economy and Emerging Tech at Meta India.

(Italy) Former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Italy. Formerly Professor of Security and International Relations at Link Campus University of Rome. She has over 20 years of experience as senior intelligence and security analyst and international cooperation, including with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and several think-tanks.

(USA) President at the Decentralized AI Alliance. Global Chair for International Protocols for AI standards at IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization. A global leader in the conversion of decentralized digital technologies, AI, and democratic governance. CEO of Toda.Network, a decentralized network protocol. CEO of PrivacyShell, cybersecurity advisory to large organizations and helps build cybersecurity startups.

(Italy) Expert in intelligence-grade cybersecurity. Founder at CEO of In The Cyber, a leading state-grade lawful spyware systems provider, which acquire in 2019 the Italian Hacking Team, a world-leading spyware makers. He is Chairman of Conferenza Nationale sulla Cyberwarfare, italy’s leading conference on cyberwarfare. He is Executive Vice President of European Center for Advanced Cybersecurity, EUCACS.

(USA) Silicon Valley based senior executive and founder, and activist for peace and democracy via IT and AI. CEO at Platonic Holdings, Cofounder at Enya Labs, formerly Chief Operating Officer and Cofounder of Boba Network, a leading level-2 platform for secure computing platform over Ethereum.