Fanny Hidvegi joined the AI Collaborative as Policy Director in April 2024. The AI Collaborative is an Initiative of the Omidyar Group. The AI Collaborative was created to help regulate artificial intelligence based on democratic values and principles and to ensure that the public has a critical voice in AI governance and development. For more than seven years Fanny was Access Now’s Europe Policy and Advocacy Director and led the organisation’s work on artificial intelligence and human rights as well. She also served as interim Policy Director of the global team. Fanny was a member of the European Commission's High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence and the Council of Europe's Committee of Experts on Freedom of Expression and Digital Technologies. She was a member of the European Parliament STOA Committee’s International Advisory Board. Fanny is the chair of the board of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU). Fanny is part of the Mozilla Rise25 inaugural cohort (’23), an Obama Foundation Europe Leader (’20) and a Marshall Memorial Fellow (’23). Fanny was selected to be a member of the POLITICO Tech 28 Class of 2022. Previously, Fanny was International Privacy Fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C. where she focused on E.U.-U.S. data transfers. For three years Fanny led the Freedom of Information and Data Protection Program of the HCLU. There, she gained experience on how to operate as a human rights advocate in a restrictive environment. Fanny also worked as a consumer protection lawyer both in the public and the private sector.