Shazeda Ahmed is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral (Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship Program) fellow at UCLA. Shazeda completed her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley’s School of Information in 2022, and was previously a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy. She has been a research fellow at Upturn, the Mercator Institute for China Studies, the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, Stanford University’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) Institute, and NYU's AI Now Institute. Shazeda’s research investigates relationships between the state, the firm, and society in the US-China geopolitical rivalry over AI, with implications for information technology policy and human rights. Her work draws from science and technology studies, ranging from her dissertation on the state-firm co-production of China’s social credit system, to her research on the epistemic culture and knowledge production practices in the emerging field of AI safety.

Coordinating Senior – Monitoring & Strategy, Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, Department for the Coordination of AI oversight Gerald Hopster serves as the coordinating senior for monitoring and strategy at the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, specifically within the Department for the Coordination of AI Oversight. He co- founded this department in 2023, aiming to monitor the risks associated with algorithms and AI systems concerning public values and fundamental rights. The DCA actively monitors, analyses, and reports on the risks associated with AI and algorithms in the Netherlands. It publicises the biannual AI & Algorithmic Risks Report Netherlands in both Dutch and English. The department not only enhances collaboration among national supervisors but also offers guidance on both existing and emerging legislation. Situated within the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, which also acts as the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA), the DCA plays a crucial role in protecting public values and fundamental rights in the development and use of AI and algorithms. A criminologist and researcher with a specialized focus on technology, Gerald previously held the position of team lead for the technology and telecommunications team at the Dutch DPA before assuming his current role at the DCA.

Roel Dobbe is an Assistant Professor in Technology, Policy & Management and Director of the Sociotechnical AI Systems Lab at Delft University of Technology. His research addresses the integration and implications of algorithmic technologies in societal infrastructure and democratic institutions, focusing on issues related to safety, sustainability and justice. His projects are situated in various domains, including energy systems, public administration, and healthcare. Roel’s system-theoretic lens enables addressing the sociotechnical and political nature of algorithmic and artificial intelligence systems across analysis, engineering design and governance, always with an aim to empower domain experts and affected communities. His results have informed various policy initiatives, including the European AI Act as well as the development of the algorithm watchdog in The Netherlands. Roel is also on the board of PublicSpaces, a Dutch foundation uniting more than forty public and civil society organizations working towards an internet that is not dependent on commercial extraction. Prior to Delft, Roel was a graduate student in the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab, receiving a PhD in Control & Intelligent Systems from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley (2018), where he received the Demetri Angelakos Memorial Achievement Award. Subsequently, he was an inaugural postdoc at the AI Now Institute in New York City.

Iverna McGowan is currently serving as Tech & Human Rights Advisor at UN Human Rights (OHCHR). She founded and then Directed the Centre for Democracy & Technology from 2020 to 2024. She has been listed by EU Insider in 2024 as one of the most influential people on digital policy and by POLITICO in 2017 as one of the most influential women on EU policy and law making. Politico said that [she] "makes the voices of human rights victims heard in Brussels’ corridors of power". Iverna was Executive Director of Amnesty International’s Office in Brussels and Advocacy Director for Europe for seven years and covered EU and Council of Europe issues. Prior to that she worked in the Human Rights Unit at the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, and later as a legal researcher for an expert member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). She was awarded the Sinti and Roma European Civil Rights Prize in 2016 for her work on equal access to education for Roma children. She holds an LL.M in EU Law and was a Top 3% scholar of the University of Maastricht, she also holds an honors degree from Trinity College Dublin, where she studied European Studies. She has previously served on the boards of the Natural Resource Governance Institute, Transparency International. She was a member of the Advisory Panel to the EU Fundamental Rights Agency, and member of the Advisory Board of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel’s Privacy Hub. She is a frequent commentator on technology’s impact on society, human rights, EU foreign policy and gender equality and has contributed to pieces by Euronews, CNN, BBC, RTE, and Reuters.