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speakers and participants at The Athens Roundtable
Vilas Dhar
President, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Marija Pejčinović Burić
Secretary General of the Council of Europe
Lucilla Sioli
Director, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry, European Commission
Elham Tabassi
Chief of Staff, Information Technology Laboratory, United States National Institute of Standards and Technology
Richard Blumenthal
United States Senator
H.E. Prokopis Pavlopoulos
President of Greece, 2015-2020
Rep. Yvette D. Clarke
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Carl Bildt
Former Prime Minister of Sweden
Senior Advisor, Covington & Burling LLP
Konstantinos Karachalios
Managing Director, IEEE Standards Association
Tawfik Jellasi
Assistant Director-General for Communications and Information, UNESCO
Hon. Jerry McNerney
United States Representative, California,
Co-Chair, AI Caucus, US Congress
Miriam Vogel
President and CEO, EqualAI
Jan Kleijssen
Director, Information Society - Action against Crime, Council of Europe
Karine Perset
Head, Policy Observatory and Network of Experts, OECD.AI
Yoichi IIda
Deputy Director-General for G7/G20 Relations, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan
Francesca Rossi
IBM AI Ethics Global Leader, President of AAAI
Katherine B. Forrest
Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP
Former U.S District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Dr. Clara Neppel
Senior Director, IEEE Europe
Brad Smith
President and Vice Chair,
Microsoft
Lee Tiedrich
Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Ethical Technology, Duke Initiative for Science & Society; Member of GPAI Multi-stakeholder Expert Group; Co-Chair of GPAI IP Subcommittee;
Member of GPAI AI & Climate Steering Committee and PETS Steering Committee
Kilian Gross
Head of Unit, Artificial Intelligence Policy Development and Coordination, DG CONNECT, The European Commission
Sasha Rubel
Public Policy Lead, AWS
Dr. Christos Dimas
Deputy Minister of Development and Investments, Hellenic Ministry
Merethe Eckhardt
Member, Working Group on the Quality of Justice, European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ), Council of Europe
Paul Nemitz
Principal Adviser, Directorate General for Justice and Consumers, European Commission
Michael Fitzpatrick
Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, Google
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
Robert Silvers
Under Secretary for Policy, US Department of Homeland Security
Isabela Ferrari
Federal Judge, Second Regional Federal Court (Rio de Janeiro), Brazil
Hon. D.Y Chandrachud
Judge, Supreme Court of India
Sebastian Wieczorek
Vice President, Artificial Intelligence Technology, SAP
Lord Tim Clement-Jones
Member, UK House of Lords, Former Chair, House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, and Co-Chair All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence
Elizabeth Thomas Raynaud
Head of Secretariat, Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), OECD
V.K. Rajah
Chairman, Advisory Council on the Ethical Use of AI and Data, former Attorney-General, Singapore
Prateek Sibal
Programme Specialist, Digital Innovation and Transformation, UNESCO
Frank Torres
Director of Consumer Affairs, Senior Policy Counsel, Microsoft
Jim Shaughnessy
Executive Vice President, Head of Global Affairs, Workday
Alexandra Reeves Givens
President and CEO, Center for Democracy and Technology
Martin Hansen
Of Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP
David Engstrom
Associate Dean, Stanford University Law School
Marielza Oliveira
Director for Partnerships and Operational Programme Monitoring in the Communication and Information Sector, UNESCO
Freek Staehr
Senior Vice President, SAP Legal; Member, SAP AI Ethics Steering Committee
Daniel E. Ho
William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University; Associate Director, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
Clementina Barbaro
Co-Secretary, Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAHAI), Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law, Council of Europe
Hon. Benes Aldana
President, National Judicial College (United States)
Jochen an der Burgt
Head of Digital Risk Management, Daimler
Eileen Lach
Member of the Executive Committee, IEEE Global Initiative on the Ethics of A/I Systems
Bertrand Braunschweig
Interim Director, Paris Center of Excellence, Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence
Laura Galindo
OECD Artificial Intelligence Policy, OECD ONE AI Secretariat
Karen Silverman
CEO and Founder, The Cantellus Group
Avi Gesser
Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
David Hoffman
Associate General Counsel and Senior Director of Data Policy Strategy, Intel Corporation
Constant Kohler
Account Manager, Industry, Electrotechnology and ICT, CEN-CENELEC
John Tasioulas
Director, Oxford University Institute for Ethics in AI
Charina Chou
Global Policy Lead for Emerging Technologies, Google
Hon. Beverly Martin
Director, Center on Civil Justice at NYU School of Law
Michael Rubin
Partner, Latham and Watkins LLP
Benjamin S. Haley
Partner, Covington & Burling LLP
Geng Li
Global Director, Compliance, Anheuser-Bush InBev
Connie Brenton
Vice President, Law, Technology and Operations, NetApp
Amy Sellars
Assistant General Counsel and Director, Discovery Center of Excellence at Cardinal Health
Mimi Zou
Director of Studies in Law, Regent's Park College & PI, Deep Tech Dispute Resolution Lab, Oxford University
Darin Thompson
Legal Counsel, Ministry of Attorney General, British Columbia, Canada
Dr. Ulrike Till
Director, Division of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy, World Intellectual Property Organization
Dr. Jean-Marc Deltorn
Senior Researcher at the International Centre for the Study of Intellectual Property (CEIPI, University of Strasbourg)
Maura R. Grossman
Research Professor, School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, Former Counsel, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Patrick Pennickx
Head of Information Society Department, Directorate General Human Rights and the Rule of Law, Council of Europe
Bruce Hedin
Principal Scientist, H5
Shawnna Hoffman Childress
Global Co-Leader, IBM Cognitive Legal Practice
Gabriele Mazzini
Team Leader - Artificial Intelligence policy & regulation, European Commission
Merve Hickok
CAIDP Chair of Board; Founder, AIethics
Helen Dodds
International lawyer, NED; Former Global Head of Legal, Dispute Resolution, Standard Chartered Bank
Peter Schildkraut
Technology, Media & Telecommunications Industry Group Co-Leader and Telecommunications, Internet & Media Partner, Arnold & Porter
Bruce Simpson
CEO, Stephen A. Schwarzman Foundation; Global Board Member, Human Rights Watch
Hon. Paul W. Grimm
District Judge, United States District Court for the District of Maryland
Sophia Adams Bhatti
Head of Strategy and Policy, Simmons Wavelength Limited, Former Director of legal and Regulatory Policy, The Law Society
Anthony Davis
Lecturer in Law, Columbia University
Werner Stengg
Digital Expert, Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, European Commission
Jeanna Neefe Matthews
Professor, Clarkson University/ Member, ACM Technology Policy Council
Cornelia Kutterer
Senior Director, European Government Affairs, Rule of Law & Responsible Tech at Microsoft
Renaud Vedel
French National AI Coordinator; Co-Chair GPAI Steering Committee
Michael Quartararo
President, Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS)
Justin Antonipillai
CEO, WireWheel; Former US Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Foreign Affairs
Anna Gressel
Senior Commercial Litigation Associate, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Yannick Meneceur
Magistrate (France), Head of Digital Development Unit and Advisor, Council of Europe’s Ad-Hoc Committee on AI (CAHAI)
Dr Christina J. Colclough
Founder of the Why Not Lab
Outgoing Steering Committee Member for workers/trade unions, GPAI
Future of work Lead, UNI Global Union
Jim Pastore
Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.
Julie Brickell
Executive Managing Director and General Counsel, H5; Lecturer, Law & Technology, Columbia University
Emily Frascaroli
Managing Counsel, Product Litigation, Ford Motor Company
Marc Rotenberg
President and Founder, Center for AI and Digital Policy
Manuel Muniz
Provost of IE University and Dean of IE School of Global and Public Affairs; Former Secretary of State for Global Spain, Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation
Ivan Fong
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Policy Officer and Secretary, 3M
Nadia Benaissa
Policy Advisor, Bits. of Freedom
Dirk Staudenmayer
Head of Unit for Contract Law of the Directorate - General Justice and Consumers, European Commission
David Siffert
Director of Research and Projects at New York University School of Law - Center on Civil Justice
Marco Bona
Co-founder and Senior Partner at MB.O.