Laura Caroli is an independent expert on AI governance, working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and public policy. She serves as Ambassador of Women in AI Belgium and is a former Senior Fellow at the Wadhwani AI Center at CSIS in Washington, DC, where she focused on AI governance and regulation from a transatlantic perspective. Prior to that, she served as Senior Policy Advisor to MEP Brando Benifei at the European Parliament for ten years, where she led the technical negotiations on the EU AI Act. Before joining the European Parliament, she worked at the Intelligence Foresight Committee of the Italian Parliament and the think tank Italianieuropei. She holds a PhD in Geopolitics from the University of Trieste. She now works as an independent expert on AI governance.