Bruno Bioni holds a PhD in Commercial Law and a Master’s in Civil Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo (USP). In the academic field, he was a study visitor at the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the Department for Personal Data Protection of the Council of Europe (CoE), as well as a visiting researcher at the Research Centre for Law, Technology and Society of the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa. He is the author of the books “Personal Data Protection: the function and limits of consent” and “Data Regulation and Protection: the principle of accountability”, as well as the organizer of several books, such as “Data Protection: context, narratives and founding elements”. He was a member of the Federal Senate Commission of Jurists on Artificial Intelligence, of the Committee for Studies on Digital Integrity and Transparency on Internet Platforms of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) and was co-chair of the Task Force focused on Inclusive Digital Transformation of T20. He is currently a member of the National Data Protection Council (CNPD), appointed as a member among representatives of civil society organizations, and a professor at ESPM and IDP-SP. He is the Founding Director of Data Privacy Brasil, a space where a school of courses and a research association in the area of ​​privacy and data protection intersect.

Carmen Alvarez Valdés is Senior Corporate Counsel at Microsoft´s Office of Data Protection, part of the Privacy, Safety and Regulatory Affairs team, which is responsible for the alignment and lead engagements with data protection authorities as well as engagements related to data protection and adjacent regulatory issues with other regulators and external stakeholders. Before that, she worked in the same position at software technology companies in the field of AI and telecommunication services on data protection, telecom, software and technology areas of practice. Carmen Alvarez completed her bachelor's and master's degrees in law, tax law and audit at the University of Oviedo in Spain. She is AIGP and CIPP/E certified by IAPP.

Adeboye is a leading civil society voice in the Internet Governance space in Africa and a proven project manager. He has background studies in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics and a Masters Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa from the University of Pretoria. A legislative engagement expert and Senior Program Manager at Paradigm Initiative. He is an Alumnus of the African School on Internet Governance with many years of global, regional, and national digital rights advocacy experience. Adeboye led Paradigm Initiative’s advocacy work on the Digital Rights and Freedom Bill in Nigeria, A bill that was passed by Nigeria’s National Assembly in February 2019.

Alison Gillwald (PhD) is the Executive Director of Research ICT Africa. She is also an adjunct professor at the University of Cape Town’s Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance. A former broadcasting and telecommunications regulator in the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) and the South African Telecommunications Authority (SATRA, together now ICASA), she has published widely on and been actively involved in telecommunications policy formulation and regulation across the continent and global South. Her applied research and practice continue to focus on digital equality and data justice, as well as on internet, data and AI governance at the national, continental and international levels. She continues to lead RIA’s After Access surveys, extending the development of digital indicators into new areas of the digital and platform economy for evidence-based policy formulation on the continent. In 2023, she conceptualised the background paper on digital inequality for the UN Women CSW 67, applying Research ICT Africa data to analyse intersectional digital inequality, linking it to data injustice and its manifestations in AI. Alison leads RIA’s technical assistance to the African Union Commission on the African Union Data Policy Framework, endorsed by member states in 2022, and the implementation plan focusing on capacity building and technical assistance for policy formulation. She recently co-led the Data Justice project of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) and now co-leads the Algorithmic Transparency in the Public Sector project, which is looking at different public algorithm repositories as a mechanism of public accountability, empowering citizens to understand and safeguard the use of their data in automated decision-making. She also led the Research ICT Africa team commissioned by UNESCO to prepare a position paper on information integrity for the G20 Brazil in 2024, where she has also served on the T20. She serves on the Digital Inclusion Roundtable of the United Nations Secretary General’s Digital Cooperation Roadmap and has previously served as Deputy Chairperson of the Ministerial Broadband Advisory Body; the Ministerial Digital Migration Task Force, the ICANN President’s Task Group on Multistakeholderism; the African Ministers’ Advisory Group and ITU Gender Task Team. She has served on the board of the public broadcaster, the SABC, AVUSA and the Media Monitoring Project. She currently serves on the board of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in Canada.