View many of the experts who took part in past editions of
The Athens Roundtable
-

Prokopios Pavlopoulos
H.E. President of the Hellenic Republic (2015-2020)
-

Carl Bildt
Former Prime Minister, Kingdom of Sweden and Senior Advisor, Covington & Burling LLP
-

Yoshua Bengio
President and Scientific Director, LawZero; Founder and Scientific Advisor, Mila; Full Professor, Université de Montréal, Canada
-

Marija Pejčinović Burić
Former Secretary General of the Council of Europe
-

Jack Clark
Co-founder, Anthropic
-

Jared Mueller
Head of External Affairs, Anthropic
-

Dimitris Papastergiou
Minister of Digital Governance, Hellenic Republic
-

Amy Klobuchar
U.S. Senator from Minnesota
-

Jean-Noël Barrot
Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs; Former Minister for Digital Transition and Telecommunications, France
-

Kyriakos Pierrakakis
Minister for the National Economy and Finance; Former Minister of State and Digital Governance, Hellenic Republic
-

Gabriela Ramos
Assistant Director-General for the Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO
-

Vilas Dhar
President, The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
-

Lucilla Sioli
Director, European AI Office, European Commission
-

Christos Dimas
Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Government of the Hellenic Republic
-

Dragos Tudorache
Member of European Parliament
-

Stuart Russell
Professor and Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; Founder, Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI)
-

Neema Lugangira
Member of Parliament T anzania, and Chair, African Parliamentary Network on Internet Governance
-

Alexander Bornyakov
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine
-

Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen
Deputy Secretary-General, OECD
-

Joslyn Barnhart
Senior Research Scientist, Strategic Governance Lead, Google DeepMind
-

Marek Havrda
Principal Adviser & Member of Regulatory Scrutiny Board, European Commission; Former Deputy Minister for European Affairs, Office of the Government of the Czech Republic
-

Irene Solaiman
Head of Global Policy, Hugging Face
-

Ekaterini Nassika
Former Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic to the USA
-

Yvette D. Clarke
Congresswoman, United States House of Representatives
-

Sara Jacobs
U.S. Representative, California's 51st congressional district
-

Tom Goldstein
Volpi-Cupal Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland; Co-PI, NIST-NSF TRAILS
-

Yannis Mastrogeorgiou
Special Secretary for Strategic Foresight at the Presidency of the Government of the Hellenic Republic
-

Rumman Chowdhury
US Science Envoy, Artificial Intelligence; CEO, Humane Intelligence
-

Alondra Nelson
Former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director for Science and Society, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, U.S.
-

Amandeep Signh Gill
Under-Secretary-General and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies, United Nations
-

Gary Marcus
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Neural Science, NYU; CEO, Center for the Advancement of Trustworthy AI
-

Tawfik Jelassi
Assistant Director-General for Communications & Information, UNESCO
-

Anna Makanju
Head of Public Policy, OpenAI
-

Margot Skarpeteig
Program Manager, Human Rights, Empowerment and Inclusion, The World Bank
-

Michael Punke
Vice President of Global Public Policy, Amazon Web Services
-

Anthony Gooch
Director of Public Affairs and Communications, OECD
-

Yi Zeng
Founding Director, Center for Long-term AI; Professor, Director; Brain-inspired Cognitive Intelligence Lab
-

Eileen M. Lach
Former General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, IEEE
-

Mike Rounds
U.S. Senator, State of South Dakota
-

Marietje Schaake
International Policy Director at Stanford University Cyber Policy Center and International Policy Fellow at Stanford HAI
-

Nikos Loutas
Head Data and AI Policy, NATO
-

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter
Former Commissioner (2018-2025), Federal Trade Commission, U.S.
-

Sasha Rubel
Public Policy Lead, AWS
-

Katherine Forrest
Partner, Cravath; Former U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York; Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice
-

Ján Hargaš
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic
-

Oliver Ilott
Director, UK AI Safety Institute
-

Brian Schatz
U.S. Senator from Hawaii
-

Elizabeth Kelly
Head of Beneficial Deployments, Anthropic; Former Director, U.S. AI Safety Institute, NIST
-

Yoichi Iida
Deputy Director-General for G7/G20 Relations, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan
-

Anna Eshoo
U.S. Representative, California's 16th congressional district
-

Jerry McNerney
U.S. Senator, State of California; Former U.S. Representative (2007-2023), State of California
-

Keith Sonderling
Former Commissioner, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2020-2024)
-

Audrey Plonk
Head of Division, Digital Economy Policy, OECD
-

Eva Maydell
Member of the European Parliament
-

Brando Benifei
Member of the European Parliament
-

Axel Voss
Member of the European Parliament
-

Lilian Itemba
Judge, High Court, Tanzania
-

Alexandros Spyridonos
Lawyer and Co-Founder of the European Law Observatory on New Technologies
-

Linda Bonyo
Founding Director, Africa Law Tech; Founder, Lawyers Hub Kenya
-

Sebastian Hallensleben
Chair of JTC 21, CEN, CENELEC
-

Peter Schildkraut
Partner and Technology, Media & Telecommunications Industry Group Co-Leader, Arnold & Porter
-

Avi Gesser
Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.
-

Gry Hasselbalch
Senior Expert, International Outreach for a Human-Centric Approach to AI (InTouchAI.eu)
-

Elham Tabassi
Chief of Staff, Information Technology Laboratory, United States National Institute of Standards and Technology
-

Renée Cummings
Data Science Professor, Data Activist in Residence, Criminologist at the School of Data Science, University of Virginia
-

Peter Cihon
Senior Advisor, U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI); Former Senior Policy Manager, GitHub
-

Juraj Čorba
Chair of AIGO OECD and Co-Chair, Global Partnership on AI
-

Navrina Singh
Founder & CEO, Credo AI
-

Russell Wald
Executive Director, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI)
-

Connor Leahy
CEO, Conjecture
-

Werner Stengg
Digital Expert, Cabinet of Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager, European Commission
-

Emmanuel Kahembwe
CEO - UK&I, VDE
-

Clara Neppel
Senior Director, IEEE Europe
-

Ariel Conn
Head of the IEEE- SA Research Group on Issues of Autonomy and AI for Defense Systems
-

Robert Silvers
Former Under Secretary for Policy (2021-2024), Department of Homeland Security, US
-

Kay Firth-Butterfield
Head, Artificial Intelligence, Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum; Member, Lord Chief Justice’s Advisory Panel on AI and Law; Member of Doughty Street Chambers and a Master of the Inner Temple, UK
-

Hon. Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud
Judge, Supreme Court of India and Head of e-Courts, India; Chief Justice of India (2022-2024)
-

Cédric Wachholz
Chief of Section, Digital Innovation and Transformation Section, UNESCO
-

Brad Smith
President and Vice Chair, Microsoft
-

Richard Blumenthal
U.S. Senator, State of Connecticut
-

Xue Lan
Cheung Kong Chair Distinguished Professor and Dean of Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University
-

John Tasioulas
Inaugural Director, Institute for Ethics in AI and Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy, University of Oxford
-

Marielza Oliveira
Director for Partnerships and Operational Programme Monitoring in the Communication and Information Sector, UNESCO
-

Patrick Penninckx
Head of Information Society Department, Information Society and Action against Crime Directorate, Directorate General Human Rights and Rule of Law, Council of Europe
-

Elizabeth Thomas-Raynaud
Head of Emerging Digital Technologies unit, OECD; Former Head of Secretariat, GPAI, OECD
-

Ivan Fong
Former General Counsel, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Policy Officer and Secretary, 3M
-

Charina Chou
Global Policy Lead for Emerging Technologies, Google
-

Mark Rotenberg
Executive Director & Founder, Center for AI and Digital Policy
-

Lee J. Tiedrich
Distinguished Faculty Fellow for Ethical Technology, Duke University
-

Renaud Vedel
Coordinator, French National AI; Co-Chair, GPAI Steering Committee
-

Cornelia Kutterer
Former Head of Rule of Law, Responsible Tech & Competition, European Government Affairs, Microsoft
-

Justin Antonipillai
CEO, WireWheel; Former United States Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs
-

Nadia Benaissa
Policy Advisor, Bits of Freedom
-

Tim Clement-Jones
Consultant DLA Piper; Former Chair, House of Lords Select Committee on AI, DLA Piper
-

Merve Hickok
President and Policy Director, Center for AI and Digital Policy; Founder, AIethicist.org
-

Amb. François Nkulikiyimfura
Ambassador to France, Government of the Republic of Rwanda
-

Karine Perset
Acting Head, OECD AI and Emerging Digital Technologies Division
-

Hon. Benes Aldana
President, The National Judicial College (2017-2025)
-

Sebastian Wieczorek
Former Global Lead AI Ethics, SAP
-

Christina J. Colclough
Founder, Why Not Lab; Outgoing Steering Committee Member for workers/trade unions, GPAI
-

Paul Nemitz
Former Principal Adviser, DG Justice, EU Commission
-

Konstantinos Karachalios
Managing Director of Standards Association and Member of Management Council, IEEE
-

Emily Frascaroli
Managing Counsel, Product Litigation, Ford Motor Company
-

Gabriele Mazzini
Team Leader, Artificial Intelligence Policy & Regulation, European Commission
-

Sophia Adams Bhatti
Former Head of Strategy and Policy, Simmons Wavelength Limited; Former Director of legal and Regulatory Policy, The Law Society
-

Lynne E. Parker
Associate Vice Chancellor and Director, AI Tennessee Initiative, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
-

Paul W. Grimm
Former District Judge, United States District Court for the District of Maryland
-

Alexandra Reeves Givens
President and CEO, Center for Democracy and Technology
-

Miriam Vogel
President and CEO, EqualAI
-

Stéphane Séjourné
Executive Vice-President, European Commission for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy; Member of the European Parliament (2019, 2021 - 2024)
-

Ulrike Till
Director IP and Frontier Technologies Division, World Intellectual Property Organization
-

Helen Dodds
International lawyer, NED; Former Global Head of Legal, Dispute Resolution, Standard Chartered Bank
-

Ellen M. Granberg
President, George Washington University
-

Mimi Zou
Head of the School of Private & Commercial Law at UNSW Law & Justice; Deep Tech Dispute Resolution Lab, Oxford University
-

David Freeman Engstrom
Associate Dean, Stanford University Law School
-

Daniel E. Ho
Professor of Political Science, Stanford University; Associate Director, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
-

Merethe Eckhardt
Member, Working Group on the Quality of Justice, European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ), Council of Europe
-

Bertrand Braunschweig
Interim Director, Paris Center of Excellence, Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence
-

Jim Shaughnessy
Executive Vice President, Head of Global Affairs, Workday
-

Clementina Barbaro
Secretary of the Working Group on Quality of Judicial Systems, Council of Europe – CEPEJ
-

Isabela Ferrari
Federal Judge, Second Regional Federal Court (Rio de Janeiro), Brazil
-

V.K. Rajah
Chairman, Advisory Council on the Ethical Use of AI and Data, former Attorney-General, Singapore
-

Francesca Rossi
IBM AI Ethics Global Leader, AAAI President-elect
-

Frank Torres
Director of Consumer Affairs, Microsoft
-

Michael Fitzpatrick
Head of Global Regulatory Affairs, Google
-

Jan Kleijssen
Director, Information Society - Action against Crime, Council of Europe
-

Kilian Gross
Head of Unit, DG CNECT A/2 Coordination and Development of AI Policy, European Commission
-

Freek Staehr
Sr Member of Global Legal Consul, in charge of AI Ethics from a Legal Perspective, SAP
-

Mike Philips
Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft
-

Addie Cooke
Global AI Policy Lead at Google Cloud, Google
-

Cameron Kerry
Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution; Former General Counsel and Acting Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce
-

Erwin Gianchandani
Assistant Director for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, U.S. National Science Foundation
-

John C. Havens
Regenerative Sustainability Practice Lead, The IEEE Standards Association
-

Alyssa Ayres
Dean, George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs
-

Luis Aranda
Senior Economist in Artificial Intelligence, OECD
-

Anthony Aguirre
Executive Director & Secretary of the Board, Future of Life Institute; Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz
-

Heather Frase
Senior Fellow, Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging T echnology (CSET)
-

Ian C. Haydon
Science Communicator, Institute for Protein Design
-

Rebekah Tromble
Director, Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics, George Washington University
-

Anne Bouverot
Special Envoy of the French President to the AI Action Summit, Office of the President of the Republic of France
-

Chloé Goupille
Secretary General, AI Action Summit
-

Carme Artigas
Co-Chair at the AI Advisory Board, Office of the UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology
-

Maya Wiley
President and CEO, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
-

Barry Lynn
Executive Director, Open Markets Institute
-

Henri Verdier
Envoy to the AI Action Summit on Global AI Governance | Ambassador for Digital Affairs, French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs
-

Roxanne Varza
Envoy to the AI Action Summit on Innovation & Culture | Director, STATION F
-

Claire Foulquier-Gazagnes
Advisor to the AI Action Summit Public Interest Envoy | T ech Policy Fellow, UC Berkeley
-

Constance de Leusse
Executive Director of the AI & Society Institute
-

Axel Dauchez
President and Founder, Make.org
-

Gilles Babinet
Co-Chairman, Conseil national du numérique (CNNum)