Global voices on AI governance

Carolina Aguerre is Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities and Communication at the Universidad Católica del Uruguay (UCU; Senior Associate Fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research (GCR21) at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany; and honorary co-director at the Centre for Technology and Society (CETYS) at Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina). She is a researcher working at the intersection of technology governance and global, regional, and national policies. She has experience in serving in different advisory roles in policy and multistakeholder environments, including the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) (2020-2022), UNESCO Ad Hoc Expert Group on Ethical Recommendations for Artificial Intelligence (2020) and the MultiStakeholder Advisory Group for the IGF (2012-2014), among others. She has a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires and an MA in Communication and Culture from Goldsmiths College, University of London. She was a resident fellow at the CGR21 (2020-2021) at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Aziz Z. Huq is a scholar of U.S. and comparative constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He has worked on topics ranging from democratic backsliding to regulating AI. His award-winning scholarly work is published in several books and leading law reviews, social science, and political science journals. He has also written for the Washington Post, the New York Times, Dissent, The Nation, and many other non-specialist publications. In 2015, he received the Graduating Students Award for Teaching Excellence. He has an active pro bono practice. He is now on the board of the American Constitution Society, the New Press, and the ACLU of Illinois. Before joining the Law School, he worked as counsel and then director of the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Project, Senior Consultant Analyst for the International Crisis Group, and as a law clerk for Judge Robert D. Sack of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and also for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Zhiyu Li is an Assistant Professor in Law and Policy at Durham University. Her research interests lie in law and technology, constitutional law, and comparative law. Her research has been published in academic journals, including Harvard International Law Journal and Artificial Intelligence and Law, and cited in the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Judicial Behaviour and the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Administrative Law. She also spoke at various fora within and outside the United Kingdom such as the Annual Conference of the Society of Legal Scholars and the Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum. She was interviewed by Cointelegraph and Deutsche Welle about the issues of technologizing justice and was invited by Dubai Judicial Institute and the Institute for Legal Transformation to provide training on judicial innovation for legal professionals.

Jake Okechukwu Effoduh is an Assistant Professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law of the Toronto Metropolitan University in Canada, where he teaches Technology Law and Society. He has gained significant expertise in international human rights advocacy at various ranks of legal systems. As Chief Councillor of the Africa – Canada Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation Consortium, he provided human rights compliance expertise on the use of AI and Big Data in Canada and across over 20 African countries. He has also informed the regulatory frameworks and policy formulation on artificial intelligence in several African countries as well as in the United States and Brazil. Effoduh holds two master's degrees in international law from the University of Oxford in the UK and Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Canada. He has held multiple academic fellowships, including at the Centre for Law, Technology, and Society at the University of Ottawa; the Harvard Library Innovation Lab of Harvard Law School; the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance of the University of Cape Town; and the Center for Human Rights Science of Carnegie Mellon University.

Smitha is a Fritz Family Fellow with Georgetown’s Tech & Society Program and SJD Candidate at Georgetown Law. Smitha’s primary research interests focus on issues around digital governance, privacy, data protection and surveillance. She also works on questions of emerging technology and law, and the expansion of tech regulation. Her current research focuses on policy and legal frameworks applicable in relation to the use of digital technologies in government services, and the role that international organisations and non-state actors are playing in this context. Smitha is an Assistant Professor of law (on leave) at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Digital Asia Hub, where she is involved in research related to the governance of digital infrastructure used to deliver public services, and more broadly digital platforms.