Cameron Kerry is a global thought leader on privacy, artificial intelligence, and cross-border challenges in information technology. He joined Governance Studies and the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings in December 2013 as the first Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow. He leads two projects: The Privacy Debate, which engages policymakers and stakeholders on the national legislative debate on privacy, and the Forum for Cooperation on AI, a series of roundtables bringing together officials and experts from several countries to identify avenues of cooperation on AI regulation, standards, and research and development. 

Previously, Kerry served as general counsel and acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he was a leader on a wide of range of issues including technology, trade, and economic growth and security. He continues to speak and write on these issues, focusing primarily on privacy, artificial intelligence, and international data flows, along with other digital economy issues. During his time as acting secretary, Kerry served as chief executive of this Cabinet agency and its 43,000 employees around the world as well as an adviser to then President Barack Obama. His tenure marked the first time in U.S. history two siblings have served in the president’s Cabinet at the same time. 

As general counsel, he was the principal legal adviser to the several Secretaries of Commerce and Commerce agency heads. Kerry spearheaded development of the White House blueprint on consumer privacy, “Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World: A Framework for Protecting Privacy and Promoting Innovation in the Global Digital Economy”. He then led the administration’s implementation of the blueprint, drafting privacy legislation and engaging with international partners, including the European Union. He also was a leader in the Obama administration’s successful effort to pass the America Invents Act, the most significant overhaul of the patent system in more than 150 years. He helped establish and lead the Commerce Department’s Internet Policy Task Force, and was the department’s voice on cybersecurity issues and similar issues in the White House “Deputies Committee.” Kerry also played a significant role on intellectual property policy and litigation, cybersecurity, international bribery, trade relations and rule of law development in China, the Gulf Oil spill litigation, and other challenges facing a large, diverse federal agency. He traveled to the People’s Republic of China on numerous occasions to co-lead the Transparency Dialogue with China as well as the U.S.-China Legal Exchange and exchanges on anti-corruption. 

In addition to his Brookings affiliation, Kerry is a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab. He also served as senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP in Boston, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., where his practice involved privacy, security, and international trade issues. Before Kerry’s appointment to the Obama administration in 2009, he practiced law at the Mintz Levin firm in Boston and Washington and taught telecommunications law as an adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School. Kerry has also been actively engaged in politics and community service throughout his adult life. During the 2004 presidential campaign, he was a close adviser and national surrogate for Democratic nominee John Kerry, traveling to 29 States and even Israel. He has served on the boards of nonprofits, and is currently on the board of the National Archives Foundation. 

The Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellows in Governance Studies are individuals of particularly noteworthy distinction. The fellowship is designed to bring distinguished visitors from government, business, journalism, and academia to Brookings to write about challenges facing the country. Kerry is the first to be named to this prestigious fellowship.

Joshua P. Meltzer is a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution. His research focuses on international economic relations and the intersection of technology and trade policy. Along with Cameron Kerry, he co-leads the Forum on Cooperation in Artificial Intelligence (FCAI)—a multistakeholder dialogue with government officials from the U.S., EU, Canada, the U.K., Singapore, Japan, and Australia, as well as AI experts from industry and academia. He also leads the USMCA initiative, which focuses on how the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) can strengthen international cooperation in North America.

Meltzer has testified before the U.S. Congress, the U.S. International Trade Commission, and the European Parliament. He was an expert witness in the Schrems II litigation in Europe on data flows and privacy and a consultant to the World Bank on trade and privacy matters. He is a member of the Australian government’s National Data Advisory Council and the OECD’s “Data Free Flow with Trust” expert community. Meltzer teaches digital trade law at Melbourne University Law School and has taught digital trade law as an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Law School and ecommerce and digital trade at the diplomatic academy of the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Before joining Brookings, he was a diplomat at the Australian Embassy in Washington D.C. and prior to that an international trade negotiator in Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Meltzer has appeared in numerous media outlets, including the Economist, the New York Times, CNN, Bloomberg, the Asahi Shimbun, and China Daily. He holds an S.J.D. and LL.M. from the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor and law and commerce degrees from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Andrea Renda is Director of Research at CEPS since 1 November 2023. He also leads the CEPS Unit on Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and the Digital Economy (GRID).

He is Adjunct Professor of Digital Policy at the School of Transnational Governance of the European University Institute, in Florence (Italy), where he (i) teaches courses on “Regulation of Emerging Technologies” and “AI Policy: ethics, policy and governance challenges”; (ii) teaches in, and coordinates, several executive training courses (on digital platforms, high-quality regulation, agile governance, digital identity, blockchain); directs research projects (ACE BRAIN on blockchain, regulation and innovation; and a project on the future of work); and contributes research to the Global Peace Tech Hub.

Andrea is a non-resident Senior Fellow at Duke University’s Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Visiting Professor of Competition Policy and the Digital Economy at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium). He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Science, a CITI Fellow at Columbia University’s Centre for Tele-Information and a member of the European Parliament’s STOA International Advisory Board. His current research interests include regulation and policy evaluation, regulatory governance, innovation and competition policies, sustainable development, innovation policy, and the ethical and policy challenges of emerging digital technologies, in particular Artificial Intelligence.

A very prolific author and keynote speaker, Andrea provides regular advice to several institutions, including the European Commission, the European Parliament, the OECD, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and many more. He sits in the Board of the journals Telecommunications Policy (Elsevier), European Journal of Risk Regulation (Cambridge) and Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance (Emerald). He is currently the Vice Chair of the advisory group on Economic and Societal Impacts of Research (ESIR), for the European Commission, DG Research and Innovation; and member of the Expert Group on “Smart Specialisation Strategies for Sustainability” (S4) at the European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre; and a Distinguished Fellow appointed to provide advice to the European Commission, DG GROW for the year 2023. He is the Co-director of the Brookings/CEPS Forum for Global Cooperation on AI. He is also a member of the OECD Network of Experts on AI, where he is currently the Co-Chair of the Working Group on Risk.

In the recent past, Andrea was a member of the EU High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence, and a member of the Task Force on AI of the Italian Ministry of Economic Development. He sits in the Advisory Board of the University College Dublin’s Centre for Digital Policy; and in the Steering Committee of the “Regulatory Diplomacy in Artificial Intelligence” project at the Global Partnership on AI’s International Center of Expertise in Montreal on Artificial Intelligence (CEIMIA). He is the Co-Coordinator and Strategy Director of the PERISCOPE project, an EU-funded project that analyses the socio-economic and behavioural impacts of COVID-19; and the Director of the Trade and Technology Dialogue, an EU-funded project that supports, for three years, the activities of all ten working groups of the EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council.

Andrew W. Wyckoff is the Former Director of the OECD’s Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) where he oversaw OECD’s work on innovation, business dynamics, science and technology, information and communication technology policy as well as the statistical work associated with each of these areas.

His experience prior to the OECD includes being a program manager of the Information, Telecommunications and Commerce program of the US Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), an economist at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and a programmer at The Brookings Institution.

He has served as an expert on various advisory groups and panels which include joining the Global Board of Trustees of Digital Future Society (DFS), being a Commissioner on the Lancet/FT Governing Health Futures 2030 Commission, the International Advisory Board of the Research Council of Norway and Head of OECD’s Delegation at the G20 and G7 meetings on ICT and Digital Economy.

Mr. Wyckoff is a citizen of the United States, holds a BA in Economics from the University of Vermont, and a Master of Public Policy from the JFK School of Government, Harvard University.

Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation

Niamh Smyth TD is Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment with special responsibility for Trade Promotion, AI and Digital Transformation.

It is the first occasion there has been a Minister designated with the portfolio concerning AI. There is a large body of work now being undertaken by the Minister to provide targeted support, training and advice to Irish enterprises to drive the adoption and deployment of AI systems across all business and industry sectors.

Minister Smyth is also currently working on new legislation that will outline how the EU AI Act will be enforced in Ireland. The Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Bill will designate the regulators responsible for implementing and enforcing the EU AI Act in Ireland, as well as provide for penalties organisations could face for non-compliance.

Minister Smyth has been a member of parliament since 2016, having first been elected to local government in 2009. Minister Smyth has been elected to parliament on three successive occasions and was made a Minister in the Department of Enterprise in February of this year.

She was previously the Chairperson of the Oireachtas Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht. During her tenure she chaired the high-profile investigation into payments at the Irish public service broadcaster.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced on 10 June 2022 the appointment of Amandeep Singh Gill of India as his Envoy on Technology.  The Secretary-General wishes to extend his appreciation and gratitude to the Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, Ms. Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, for her dedication and commitment as Acting Envoy on Technology. 

Mr. Gill is the Chief Executive Officer of the International Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence Research Collaborative (I-DAIR) project, based at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.  

A thought leader on digital technology, he brings to the position a deep knowledge of digital technologies coupled with a solid understanding of how to leverage the digital transformation responsibly and inclusively for progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. 

Previously, he was the Executive Director and Co-Lead of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation (2018-2019).  In addition to delivering the report of the High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation, Mr. Gill helped secure high-impact international consensus recommendations on regulating Artificial Intelligence (Al) in lethal autonomous weapon systems in 2017 and 2018, the draft Al ethics recommendation of UNESCO in 2020, and a new international platform on digital health and Al. 

Mr. Gill was India’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva (2016-2018).  He joined his country’s Diplomatic Service in 1992 and served in various capacities in disarmament and strategic technologies and international security affairs, with postings in Tehran and Colombo.  He was also a visiting scholar at Stanford University.  

Mr. Gill holds a PhD in Nuclear Learning in Multilateral Forums from King’s College, London, a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Electrical Communications from Panjab University, Chandigarh and an Advanced Diploma in French History and Language from Geneva University.  He is fluent in English, French, Hindi and Punjabi. 

Since 16 of January 2020 Kilian Gross is Head of Unit A/2 in DG CNECT responsible for policy development and coordination with regard to Artificial Intelligence. Following the work of the High-Level Expert Group the Unit has drafted a White Paper on Artificial Intelligence, which presents the options on how to promote the uptake of Artificial Intelligence and how to address at the same time the risk associated with certain uses of this new technology. Based on the results of the Public Consultation on the White Paper, in April 2021 his Unit has proposed a legal framework, aiming to address the risks generated by specific uses of AI as well as an updated Coordinated Plan aiming to align AI policy support measures among EU Member States. The Unit is currently following up the process for the adoption of the legal proposal as well as the implementation of the Coordinated Plan on AI. In addition, Kilian Gross leads the legal team, which has prepared the proposal for a European Chips Act.

Before November 2015 Kilian Gross was a member of the Cabinet of Commissioner Oettinger. Within the Cabinet, he was mainly responsible for the Commission Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and DG HR.

Michael McNamara was elected to the European Parliament to represent the Ireland South constituency in June 2024.

He is Co-Chair of the European Parliament’s Working Group on the Implementation and Enforcement of the AI Act.

Michael is a Member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) and the Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia. He is also a Substitute member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and the Delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly.

Michael represented the Clare constituency as a member of the Irish parliament from 2011 until 2016, and again from 2020 until 2024.

He was appointed Chair of the Special Committee on the COVID-19 Response in 2020 and was also appointed Chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Drug Use in 2024.

He is a barrister and a farmer.

Nikolaj Munch Andersen is Chief AI Advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, working at the Office of Denmark’s Tech Ambassador to assist Denmark in navigating a new geopolitical and technological reality. Nikolaj’s primary interests and expertise lie at the intersection between AI and geopolitics. Nikolaj’s work is centred around the national and international direction of AI policy and global governance through cooperation with countries, dialogue with the tech industry, participation in multilateral forums, and engagement with civil society and the research sector.

Nikolaj holds a Master of Science degree in Cognitive Science and has a strong technical background in natural language processing, AI model evaluation, and responsible AI implementation in critical areas like healthcare. He has previously served as Data Science Mentor at MIT Critical Data, and as Affiliated Researcher at AIM: AI in Medicine Programme at Harvard Medical School.

Laetitia Cailleteau is leading the Responsible AI practice at Accenture in Europe, Africa and Middle East. She is a change maker, helping companies build on the power of technology and human ingenuity ethically. With 25 years of experience in consulting, operating at all levels including C-Suite for Fortune’s companies, Laetitia is commercially aware with a proven track record of delivering responsible value through Data & AI for her clients. She is able to communicate well across business and technology within differing business cultures globally. Laetitia had a progressive cross-industry career and specialized in the last 20 years on Digital Transformation, Human-Centered Innovation, Data-Led Reinvention, and AI and Ethics.

She was appointed by the European Commission as a reserve member of the AI High-Level Group of Experts, is part of the Joint Technical Committee on AI at CEN/CENELEC through Afnor, authored several academic publications, and holds patents in the Conversational AI and Responsible AI domain.

Laetitia is a frequent speaker at international conferences and a multiple award winner (Inspired Minds Top 65 Most Influential AI Women in 2023; World AI Summit Top 75 Innovators 2023; CIO Views Most Powerful Women in Technology 2022; Analytics Insights’ 10 Most Influential Women in Technology 2020).

Tjade Stroband is Director for Artificial Intelligence Policy at Microsoft’s European Government Affairs office in Brussels. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2022, Tjade has over fifteen years of public sector experience, working on competition, internal market, industrial property and digital policies at the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Netherlands Permanent Representation to the EU and the European Commission’s DG CONNECT. Tjade holds a MSc in Business Economics from the University of Amsterdam (specialisation in Industrial Organisation).

Thibaut Kleiner is the Director for Future Networks in DG Connect. He has worked since 2001 at the European Commission. The first ten years of his career in the Commission were spent in the area of competition policy (merger, antitrust and State aid). In September 2011, he moved to the digital policy area, as advisor of Vice-President Neelie Kroes, in charge of the Digital Agenda, and supervised Internet policies at large (Internet Governance, cybersecurity, cloud, data).

From January 2014 to June 2016, he was head of unit in charge of network technologies (5G and Internet of Things) in DG Connect. From June 2016 to December 2019 he was the deputy head of cabinet of Commissioner Oettinger, in charge of Budget and Human Resources and he then came back to DG Connect to head the unit in charge of Research Strategy and Coordination and was subsequently Director for Policy, Strategy and Outreach from December 2020 until March 2025. An economist by training Thibaut holds a Master from HEC Paris and a PhD from the London School of Economics.

Pamela Krzypkowska is a specialist in the field of digitalization, with extensive experience in artificial intelligence and new technologies. She currently serves as the Director of the Department of Research and Innovation at the Ministry of Digital Affairs, where she leads Poland’s responsible digitalization strategy in the age of AI.

Previously, she worked as an AI Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, where she was responsible for leading flagship AI projects for the company’s largest clients in Poland. Her work at Microsoft covered a wide range of activities, from MLOps (managing the AI model lifecycle) to the development and implementation of models, as well as working with generative models.

In addition to her professional work, Pamela is actively involved in education. She lectures at the Leon Koźmiński Academy and the Warsaw University of Technology, actively sharing her knowledge and experience. Her classes are highly regarded for her ability to present complex topics in an accessible manner.

Iveta Lohovska serves as the Chief Technologist and Principal Data Scientist for AI and Supercomputing at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), where she champions the democratization of decision intelligence and the development of ethical AI solutions. An industry leader, her multifaceted expertise encompasses natural language processing, computer vision, and data mining. Committed to leveraging technology for societal benefit, Iveta is a distinguished technical advisor to the United Nations’ AI for Good program and a Data Science lecturer at the Vienna University of Applied Sciences. Her career also includes impactful roles with the World Bank Group, focusing on open data initiatives and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Joshua P. Meltzer is a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution. His research focuses on international economic relations and the intersection of technology and trade policy. Along with Cameron Kerry, he co-leads the Forum on Cooperation in Artificial Intelligence (FCAI)—a multistakeholder dialogue with government officials from the U.S., EU, Canada, the U.K., Singapore, Japan, and Australia, as well as AI experts from industry and academia. He also leads the USMCA initiative, which focuses on how the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) can strengthen international cooperation in North America.

Meltzer has testified before the U.S. Congress, the U.S. International Trade Commission, and the European Parliament. He was an expert witness in the Schrems II litigation in Europe on data flows and privacy and a consultant to the World Bank on trade and privacy matters. He is a member of the Australian government’s National Data Advisory Council and the OECD’s “Data Free Flow with Trust” expert community. Meltzer teaches digital trade law at Melbourne University Law School and has taught digital trade law as an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Law School and ecommerce and digital trade at the diplomatic academy of the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Before joining Brookings, he was a diplomat at the Australian Embassy in Washington D.C. and prior to that an international trade negotiator in Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Meltzer has appeared in numerous media outlets, including the Economist, the New York Times, CNN, Bloomberg, the Asahi Shimbun, and China Daily. He holds an S.J.D. and LL.M. from the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor and law and commerce degrees from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

General Director, National Agency of Information Society Linda Karçanaj was born in Tirana, Albania, to a family of honored professors of their time. She studied Computer Science and earned both BA, MA and PhD degrees from the University of Tirana, with excellent results. Being that she graduated with honors, she got appointed as a full-time lecturer of Information and Communication Technology subjects at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tirana for 6 years. Simultaneously, she was working as a programmer, database manager and IT expert for various international organizations, projects and local companies. During this time, she also attended various trainings in algorithm and IT in France and Germany. Upon moving to Canada, Ms. Karcanaj worked for 5 years as an IT manager for local private companies in Ontario, managing data processing and analytics and providing expertise and IT solutions in operational work processes.

After returning to Albania, Mrs. Karçanaj held the position of Director of Information Technology in the Municipality of Tirana for 4 years, being the initiator of the integration of ICT in the local government administration. In this period, she led the digitalization of work processes in the largest municipality of Albania. Further on, she returned as a full-time lecturer of ICT subjects, at the Faculty of Economics, University of Tirana for 3 years. For the past 9 years and a half, Mrs. Karçanaj has led the Albanian National Agency of Information Society, holding the position of the General Director. She has successfully implemented the digital revolution of transforming public services through the e-Albania governmental platform. Today, 95% of public services are provided online-only through the e-Albania platform, changing the mindset and means of access between the citizens and state institutions, emphasizing the importance of digitalization of services and the modernization of public administration.

Mrs. Karcanaj has shown her leadership and managerial skills in the design of integrated systems in education, e-Health, transport, consular services, tax and customs services for businesses, thus improving citizens’ quality of life by saving them time and money in reduced costs and fees. She has continually led investments in developing electronic systems, digitalizing physical archives, improving physical infrastructures, equipping the relevant stakeholders with an electronic seal or signature, etc. Currently, Ms. Karçanaj is committed to paving the way for implementation of emerging technologies in public administration such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, big data and analytics and blockchain.

Her upcoming challenges include implementing plans on fostering a community of programmers with state-of-the-art training in Albania, thus addressing the lack of professional workforce and helping the youth obtain ready for-the-job skills. Under the administration of Mrs. Karçanaj, NAIS has been internationally praised by the United Nations, the European Union, the US Department of State, ReSPA and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for the success of digital governance, making Albania a leader in the region.

Executive Director for Global AI and Data Policy at JPMorgan Chase, Kip drives a firmwide strategy to advance outcomes across the public policy and regulatory landscape that enable responsible innovation. Previously, he was Head of Platform Policy at Snap Inc., where he led the development of Snap’s product and content policies and engaged policymakers on rights-respecting approaches to managing digital risks. Kip worked in the White House under President Obama as Senior Director of Cabinet Affairs and Senior Advisor to the Domestic Policy Council, where he was a member of the National Science and Technology Council subcommittee on AI and Machine Learning. He was also Senior Counsel in the Office of Legal Policy at the US Department of Justice, where his work focused on the development of federal policies concerning emerging technologies. After leaving government, Kip led the Silicon Valley office of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and worked at Stanford University, where he was Associate Director at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center, Director of Program for the Global Digital Policy Incubator, and a fellow with the Digital Civil Society Lab.

Līga Raita Rozentāle is a senior leader with over 20 years of experience driving teams on strategic issues for government and business development. Throughout her career, she has a track record on fostering innovation and thought leadership within the national, EU, NATO and UN context. Liga draws from experience in the private sector currently leading Public Policy for Europe and internationally for CrowdStrike, running her own consultancy advising various public and private stakeholders on business development in the areas of digital economy, and previously as Senior Director, Microsoft European Government Affairs (Cyber & Defence). Earlier in her career Liga served as the first Latvian cyber diplomat for Latvia at the EU, NATO and the UN fostering in the age of cyber diplomacy and addressing the complexities of the new 5th domain of warfare. Liga has been named among top 50 most influential women in Europe on cybersecurity and serves on advisory committees for ENISA, Women4Cyber, EU Navigator, and the Global Cyber Alliance.

Matthew Jensen is the Global Head of Government Relations and Public Policy at Indeed, a globally leading job matching and hiring platform. In this role, he focuses on digital and workforce policy, including artificial intelligence, platform responsibility, trust and safety, workforce development, and skills-first hiring. Matthew helps shape initiatives that leverage AI and labor market data to improve job matching, strengthen skills-first hiring and worker mobility, and inform evidence-based policymaking. Matthew serves as Vice Chair and board member of Internet Works, an industry trade association representing technology companies. 

Before joining Indeed, he served in senior leadership and legislative positions within the U.S. government and at leading technology companies, with extensive experience navigating complex regulatory environments worldwide. Matthew holds a Master’s in International Business and Policy from Georgetown University and lives in the Washington, D.C. area with his family.

Andrea Renda is Director of Research at CEPS since 1 November 2023. He also leads the CEPS Unit on Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and the Digital Economy (GRID).

He is Adjunct Professor of Digital Policy at the School of Transnational Governance of the European University Institute, in Florence (Italy), where he (i) teaches courses on “Regulation of Emerging Technologies” and “AI Policy: ethics, policy and governance challenges”; (ii) teaches in, and coordinates, several executive training courses (on digital platforms, high-quality regulation, agile governance, digital identity, blockchain); directs research projects (ACE BRAIN on blockchain, regulation and innovation; and a project on the future of work); and contributes research to the Global Peace Tech Hub.

Andrea is a non-resident Senior Fellow at Duke University’s Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Visiting Professor of Competition Policy and the Digital Economy at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium). He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Science, a CITI Fellow at Columbia University’s Centre for Tele-Information and a member of the European Parliament’s STOA International Advisory Board. His current research interests include regulation and policy evaluation, regulatory governance, innovation and competition policies, sustainable development, innovation policy, and the ethical and policy challenges of emerging digital technologies, in particular Artificial Intelligence.

A very prolific author and keynote speaker, Andrea provides regular advice to several institutions, including the European Commission, the European Parliament, the OECD, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and many more. He sits in the Board of the journals Telecommunications Policy (Elsevier), European Journal of Risk Regulation (Cambridge) and Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance (Emerald). He is currently the Vice Chair of the advisory group on Economic and Societal Impacts of Research (ESIR), for the European Commission, DG Research and Innovation; and member of the Expert Group on “Smart Specialisation Strategies for Sustainability” (S4) at the European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre; and a Distinguished Fellow appointed to provide advice to the European Commission, DG GROW for the year 2023. He is the Co-director of the Brookings/CEPS Forum for Global Cooperation on AI. He is also a member of the OECD Network of Experts on AI, where he is currently the Co-Chair of the Working Group on Risk.

In the recent past, Andrea was a member of the EU High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence, and a member of the Task Force on AI of the Italian Ministry of Economic Development. He sits in the Advisory Board of the University College Dublin’s Centre for Digital Policy; and in the Steering Committee of the “Regulatory Diplomacy in Artificial Intelligence” project at the Global Partnership on AI’s International Center of Expertise in Montreal on Artificial Intelligence (CEIMIA). He is the Co-Coordinator and Strategy Director of the PERISCOPE project, an EU-funded project that analyses the socio-economic and behavioural impacts of COVID-19; and the Director of the Trade and Technology Dialogue, an EU-funded project that supports, for three years, the activities of all ten working groups of the EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council.

Lan Xue is a nonresident senior fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center of the Foreign Policy program at Brookings Institution. His research focuses on global governance, crisis management, and science, technology, and innovation policy. Xue is the dean of Schwarzman College and a distinguished professor of arts, humanities, and social sciences at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

Cameron Kerry is a global thought leader on privacy, artificial intelligence, and cross-border challenges in information technology. He joined Governance Studies and the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings in December 2013 as the first Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow. He leads two projects: The Privacy Debate, which engages policymakers and stakeholders on the national legislative debate on privacy, and the Forum for Cooperation on AI, a series of roundtables bringing together officials and experts from several countries to identify avenues of cooperation on AI regulation, standards, and research and development. 

Previously, Kerry served as general counsel and acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he was a leader on a wide of range of issues including technology, trade, and economic growth and security. He continues to speak and write on these issues, focusing primarily on privacy, artificial intelligence, and international data flows, along with other digital economy issues. During his time as acting secretary, Kerry served as chief executive of this Cabinet agency and its 43,000 employees around the world as well as an adviser to then President Barack Obama. His tenure marked the first time in U.S. history two siblings have served in the president’s Cabinet at the same time. 

As general counsel, he was the principal legal adviser to the several Secretaries of Commerce and Commerce agency heads. Kerry spearheaded development of the White House blueprint on consumer privacy, “Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World: A Framework for Protecting Privacy and Promoting Innovation in the Global Digital Economy”. He then led the administration’s implementation of the blueprint, drafting privacy legislation and engaging with international partners, including the European Union. He also was a leader in the Obama administration’s successful effort to pass the America Invents Act, the most significant overhaul of the patent system in more than 150 years. He helped establish and lead the Commerce Department’s Internet Policy Task Force, and was the department’s voice on cybersecurity issues and similar issues in the White House “Deputies Committee.” Kerry also played a significant role on intellectual property policy and litigation, cybersecurity, international bribery, trade relations and rule of law development in China, the Gulf Oil spill litigation, and other challenges facing a large, diverse federal agency. He traveled to the People’s Republic of China on numerous occasions to co-lead the Transparency Dialogue with China as well as the U.S.-China Legal Exchange and exchanges on anti-corruption. 

In addition to his Brookings affiliation, Kerry is a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab. He also served as senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP in Boston, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., where his practice involved privacy, security, and international trade issues. Before Kerry’s appointment to the Obama administration in 2009, he practiced law at the Mintz Levin firm in Boston and Washington and taught telecommunications law as an adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School. Kerry has also been actively engaged in politics and community service throughout his adult life. During the 2004 presidential campaign, he was a close adviser and national surrogate for Democratic nominee John Kerry, traveling to 29 States and even Israel. He has served on the boards of nonprofits, and is currently on the board of the National Archives Foundation. 

The Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellows in Governance Studies are individuals of particularly noteworthy distinction. The fellowship is designed to bring distinguished visitors from government, business, journalism, and academia to Brookings to write about challenges facing the country. Kerry is the first to be named to this prestigious fellowship.

Jason is the Chief AI, Innovation, and Digital Economy Officer at UNIDO, overseeing projects and programs related to AI, digital transformation, and innovation, with a key focus on the Digital Economy. He co-leads efforts under Objective 2 of the Global Digital Compact, which aims to advance inclusive and sustainable digital transformation.

Previously, Jason served as UNIDO’s Digitalization and Innovation Officer, spearheading the organization’s digital and transformation initiatives and driving innovation solutions. His leadership emphasizes optimizing service delivery through digital solutions, collaborating closely with stakeholders to enhance processes and outcomes.

With extensive experience at UNIDO, Jason has held roles as the head of IT, strategic financial management, business transformation, and communications. Before joining UNIDO, he led finance management consulting in the UK public sector and served as head of finance at a large multinational corporation. Jason is a Chartered Management Accountant and holds an MBA.

Michel Kerf became the World Bank’s Regional Director for Digital Transformation in Latin America and Caribbean and Europe and Central Asia Regions on April 14, 2025.

Prior to this experience, he was the Division Director for Central America and the Dominican Republic, overseeing a portfolio of 62 projects worth $7.6 billion.

Michel Kerf brings over 25 years of World Bank experience to the role, including previous positions such as Country Director for Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands or Transport Practice Manager for East Asia and Pacific Region.

Michel Kerf has also held the roles of Sector Manager, Sustainable Development, for Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and the Pacific Islands; Sector Leader for Sustainable Development in Peru and in Argentina; Infrastructure Policy Advisor in the Sustainable Development Department of the East Asia and Pacific Region; and Senior Private Sector Development Specialist in the Middle East and North Africa Region.

Michel, a Belgian national, graduated in Law from the University of Liège, Belgium, and obtained a Master of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics. He has taught as Visiting Professor at the University of Liège and at the College of Europe in Bruges. He is also the author of several publications on subjects related to concessions, privatization, and competitiveness of infrastructure services.

Alison Gillwald (PhD) is the founding director of Research ICT Africa (RIA), a 30-year-old African digital and data policy and regulatory think tank with the mission of accelerating digital inequality and data justice. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Cape Town’s Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, where she convenes a doctoral programme on the digital economy and society.

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. During South Africa’s Presidency of the G20 this year, she has served as an advisor to the Government on the High-Level Task Force on Artificial Intelligence, Data Governance, Innovation for Sustainable Development and the G20 Digital Economy Work Group, leading RIA’s role as the only African knowledge partner across all priority areas. She also co-chairs the T20 Task Force on Digital Transformation.

She also led the RIA team commissioned by UNESCO to prepare a position paper on information integrity for the Brazilian G20, and served on the Brazilian T20. She has been active in the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), most recently co-leading the Algorithmic Transparency in the Public Sector project. She also co-led the Data Justice work of the Data Governance Working Group. She is also a past deputy chairperson of Giganet, the only dedicated Internet Governance academic policy research conference. She serves on the International Telecommunications Union Academic Advisory Body.

Over three decades, she has also been commissioned and partnered with UNCTAD, UNDP, UNDESA, UNECA, UN Women, The World Bank, and The African Development Bank. Gillwald led RIA’s technical assistance to the African Union Commission on the AU Data Policy Framework and implementation plan. She has served on the Digital Inclusion Roundtable of the UN Secretary General’s Roadmap for Digital Cooperation. She was also appointed by the then President of the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to the four-member Multistakeholder Committee, to enhance multistakeholder participation as part of the organisational review following the IANA transition.

Prior to joining UCT, Gillwald was Associate Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand Graduate School of Public and Development Management, where she was the founding director of the Learning Information Networking and Knowledge (LINK) Centre in 1999, with the purpose of fast-tracking ICT policy and regulatory training in Southern Africa. Before joining Wits, she was appointed by President Mandela through the first democratic Parliament to serve on the founding Council of the South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (SATRA). The body was responsible for implementing the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which introduced a dedicated sector regulator in South Africa and opened the mobile telecommunications market. Before that, she established the Policy Department in the first independent broadcasting regulator, the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) in 1995, where she was responsible for coordinating the Triple Inquiry Report into the viability of public broadcasting, local content, and cross-media ownership. This was preceded by her appointment to the Advisory Board of the Independent Media Commission, which was responsible for ensuring equitable coverage of political parties by the media in the first democratic elections. In 2000, she was appointed to the African Communication Ministers’ Advisory Group, and in 2002, she was appointed by the then Minister of Communications to chair the South African Digital Broadcasting Advisory Body, which reported to Cabinet in 2003.

In 2004, she was appointed to the board of the public broadcaster, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), and was reappointed to serve in 2008. She has also served on the boards of the AVUSA publishing house, the Media Monitoring Project, and is currently on the board of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in Canada. She has provided technical assistance, been commissioned, and consulted for the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), the Competition Commission, the Department of Trade and Industry, the South African Presidency, and the Department of Finance (Treasury) on administrative pricing in infrastructure industries. She played a key role in developing the digital strategy and the National Development Plan. She provided technical assistance to the Ministry of Communication on the National Broadband Policy and Plan and SA Connect. She was subsequently appointed deputy chairperson to the Broadband Advisory Council.

Gillwald has a doctorate from the University of Witwatersrand and an MA in Politics from the University of Natal. She also holds an Honours degree in African Politics and Journalism from Rhodes University. She is published in the areas of gender, geopolitics, political economy, and development.

Cameron Kerry is a global thought leader on privacy, artificial intelligence, and cross-border challenges in information technology. He joined Governance Studies and the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings in December 2013 as the first Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow. He leads two projects: The Privacy Debate, which engages policymakers and stakeholders on the national legislative debate on privacy, and the Forum for Cooperation on AI, a series of roundtables bringing together officials and experts from several countries to identify avenues of cooperation on AI regulation, standards, and research and development. 

Previously, Kerry served as general counsel and acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he was a leader on a wide of range of issues including technology, trade, and economic growth and security. He continues to speak and write on these issues, focusing primarily on privacy, artificial intelligence, and international data flows, along with other digital economy issues. During his time as acting secretary, Kerry served as chief executive of this Cabinet agency and its 43,000 employees around the world as well as an adviser to then President Barack Obama. His tenure marked the first time in U.S. history two siblings have served in the president’s Cabinet at the same time. 

As general counsel, he was the principal legal adviser to the several Secretaries of Commerce and Commerce agency heads. Kerry spearheaded development of the White House blueprint on consumer privacy, “Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World: A Framework for Protecting Privacy and Promoting Innovation in the Global Digital Economy”. He then led the administration’s implementation of the blueprint, drafting privacy legislation and engaging with international partners, including the European Union. He also was a leader in the Obama administration’s successful effort to pass the America Invents Act, the most significant overhaul of the patent system in more than 150 years. He helped establish and lead the Commerce Department’s Internet Policy Task Force, and was the department’s voice on cybersecurity issues and similar issues in the White House “Deputies Committee.” Kerry also played a significant role on intellectual property policy and litigation, cybersecurity, international bribery, trade relations and rule of law development in China, the Gulf Oil spill litigation, and other challenges facing a large, diverse federal agency. He traveled to the People’s Republic of China on numerous occasions to co-lead the Transparency Dialogue with China as well as the U.S.-China Legal Exchange and exchanges on anti-corruption. 

In addition to his Brookings affiliation, Kerry is a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab. He also served as senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP in Boston, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., where his practice involved privacy, security, and international trade issues. Before Kerry’s appointment to the Obama administration in 2009, he practiced law at the Mintz Levin firm in Boston and Washington and taught telecommunications law as an adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School. Kerry has also been actively engaged in politics and community service throughout his adult life. During the 2004 presidential campaign, he was a close adviser and national surrogate for Democratic nominee John Kerry, traveling to 29 States and even Israel. He has served on the boards of nonprofits, and is currently on the board of the National Archives Foundation. 

The Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellows in Governance Studies are individuals of particularly noteworthy distinction. The fellowship is designed to bring distinguished visitors from government, business, journalism, and academia to Brookings to write about challenges facing the country. Kerry is the first to be named to this prestigious fellowship.

Cinzia Missiroli is an accomplished, results-oriented senior professional with expertise in all aspects of European Standardization at a strategic and operational level, and has a demonstrable record of success in leveraging vision and incisive direction to drive sustainable practices and optimal processes within a European and international context. Cinzia has notable capacity for spearheading multidisciplinary projects that support the attainment of overarching organizational goals underpinned by an aptitude for optimizing resource allocation and cost efficiencies. Cinzia has advanced communication and interpersonal skills that frequently facilitate the maintenance of strong relationships at all levels and engender a leadership environment that is conducive to motivation, target-achievement and professional excellence. She is skilled in Negotiation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Supporting Others, People Management, and International Relations.

Karen McCabe is the Senior Director of Public Affairs and Marketing at IEEE, the world’s largest professional association, where she drives efforts to build and connect communities working at the intersection of technology, standards and policy, and where her focus is on the development and promotion of collaborative strategies that produce impactful outcomes. Karen works at the nexus of mission-driven organizations, industry, academia, NGOs and government/intergovernmental bodies to raise awareness, to educate and build capacity among stakeholders in the technology and social impact sphere. She has held various leadership and senior management positions in the technology sector, with a specific focus in the global standards and technology domain. Karen is engaged in efforts in climate change, digital inclusion, identity management, data governance, ethics and technology and global standards in trade and policy. Karen is a member of the OECD Internet Technical Advisory Committee and past member of the IGF MAG and works with an array of organizations and bodies to connect technologists, industry leaders and policy makers where she develops partnerships and builds alliances across stakeholder communities.

Cameron Kerry is a global thought leader on privacy, artificial intelligence, and cross-border challenges in information technology. He joined Governance Studies and the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings in December 2013 as the first Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow. He leads two projects: The Privacy Debate, which engages policymakers and stakeholders on the national legislative debate on privacy, and the Forum for Cooperation on AI, a series of roundtables bringing together officials and experts from several countries to identify avenues of cooperation on AI regulation, standards, and research and development. 

Previously, Kerry served as general counsel and acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he was a leader on a wide of range of issues including technology, trade, and economic growth and security. He continues to speak and write on these issues, focusing primarily on privacy, artificial intelligence, and international data flows, along with other digital economy issues. During his time as acting secretary, Kerry served as chief executive of this Cabinet agency and its 43,000 employees around the world as well as an adviser to then President Barack Obama. His tenure marked the first time in U.S. history two siblings have served in the president’s Cabinet at the same time. 

As general counsel, he was the principal legal adviser to the several Secretaries of Commerce and Commerce agency heads. Kerry spearheaded development of the White House blueprint on consumer privacy, “Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World: A Framework for Protecting Privacy and Promoting Innovation in the Global Digital Economy”. He then led the administration’s implementation of the blueprint, drafting privacy legislation and engaging with international partners, including the European Union. He also was a leader in the Obama administration’s successful effort to pass the America Invents Act, the most significant overhaul of the patent system in more than 150 years. He helped establish and lead the Commerce Department’s Internet Policy Task Force, and was the department’s voice on cybersecurity issues and similar issues in the White House “Deputies Committee.” Kerry also played a significant role on intellectual property policy and litigation, cybersecurity, international bribery, trade relations and rule of law development in China, the Gulf Oil spill litigation, and other challenges facing a large, diverse federal agency. He traveled to the People’s Republic of China on numerous occasions to co-lead the Transparency Dialogue with China as well as the U.S.-China Legal Exchange and exchanges on anti-corruption. 

In addition to his Brookings affiliation, Kerry is a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab. He also served as senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP in Boston, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., where his practice involved privacy, security, and international trade issues. Before Kerry’s appointment to the Obama administration in 2009, he practiced law at the Mintz Levin firm in Boston and Washington and taught telecommunications law as an adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School. Kerry has also been actively engaged in politics and community service throughout his adult life. During the 2004 presidential campaign, he was a close adviser and national surrogate for Democratic nominee John Kerry, traveling to 29 States and even Israel. He has served on the boards of nonprofits, and is currently on the board of the National Archives Foundation. 

The Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellows in Governance Studies are individuals of particularly noteworthy distinction. The fellowship is designed to bring distinguished visitors from government, business, journalism, and academia to Brookings to write about challenges facing the country. Kerry is the first to be named to this prestigious fellowship.

Juha Heikkilä is Adviser for Artificial Intelligence in the European Commission Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology. He is developing the international dimension of the EU AI strategy at the Commission and is engaged in both bilateral and multilateral international work. He has long been involved in developing the Commission Artificial Intelligence and Robotics activities, previously leading a unit which was instrumental in developing the AI strategy published in 2018, the Coordinated Plan on AI, the ecosystem of excellence of the White Paper, and engaging with the High-Level Expert Group on AI. He oversaw a major funding programme on Robotics and AI, including the €700m Public-Private Partnership in Robotics, and was setting up the Public-Private Partnership in AI, Data and Robotics. Juha Heikkilä holds a PhD in Linguistics from Cambridge University.

Karine Perset is the Acting Head of the OECD AI and Emerging Digital Technologies Division, where she oversees the OECD.AI Policy Observatory, the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) & integrated network of experts as well as the OECD Global Forum on Emerging Technologies. She oversees the development of analysis, policies and tools inline with the OECD AI Principles. She also helps governments manage the opportunities and challenges that AI and emerging technologies raise for governments. Previously she was Advisor to ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee and Counsellor of the OECD’s Science, Technology and Industry Director. Karine is Franco-American.

Emmanuelle Ganne is Chief of Digital Trade and Frontier Technologies at the World Trade Organization (WTO) where she coordinates policy discussions, negotiations, research and technical assistance on digital trade, AI and other frontier technologies. Prior to this, she held various positions at the WTO, including as WTO lead on micro, small and medium side enterprises (MSMEs), as Counselor to Director-General Pascal Lamy, and in the Accessions Division where she assessed trade policies of governments wishing to join the WTO and advised them on how to improve their business environment. Ms. Ganne is a Yale World Fellow. She is the author of a 2018 book entitled “Can Blockchain Revolutionize International Trade?” and is a regular speaker on digital trade and frontier technologies. Ms. Ganne has received various awards for her work on trade digitalization and blockchain.

Cristina Akemi Shimoda Uechi is the General Coordinator of Digital Transformation and Deputy Director of the Department of Science, Technology and Digital Innovation of the Secretariat of Science and Technology for Digital Transformation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Brazil. She is graduated in Electrical Engineering (University of São Paulo) and MSc in Biomedical Engineering (University of Brasília).

Akifumi Irie is Advisor to Director-General, Global Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Japan. Before this he was Senior Deputy Director, General Affairs Division, Global Strategy Bureau (2017-2018) and Senior Deputy Director, Broadcasting Policy Division, Information and Communications Bureau (2016-2018) in the Ministry.

Mr Irie has also held positions as First Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japanese delegation representative to the OECD) (2013-2015) and OECD Vice Chair; Deputy Director for International Economy division (in charge of US and EU), Global Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan (2012-2013); Deputy Director for Public Finance Policy Division, Ministry of Finance (2010-2012) and Consumer Policy Division / Telecommunications Business Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, in charge of planning consumer protection in the field of telecommunication (2002-2005).

Aaron Kleiner is Director of Government Affairs and Public Policy for Unity, the world’s leading platform for the creation and operation of real-time 3D content and experiences. He leads Unity’s global engagements on technology policy issues and dialogues with policymakers and regulators, as well as Unity’s participation in policy forums and trade associations. Aaron is a member of the Board of the XR Association, and the Leadership Council of The Software Alliance.

Prior to Unity, Aaron served in public policy and operational leadership roles at Microsoft. Aaron was Chief of Staff to former FTC Commissioner Julie Brill in her position as Microsoft’s Chief Privacy Officer and Corporate Vice President for Global Privacy and Regulatory Affairs. He also led Microsoft’s global strategic engagement with cybersecurity regulators and standards groups to enable use of cloud services by critical infrastructure organizations. Before Microsoft, Aaron was an international trade attorney in the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Aaron is a former Presidential Management Fellow, and completed executive education at the Harvard Kennedy School in strategic management of regulatory and enforcement agencies. He is a graduate of the University of Washington, where he received both his law and undergraduate degrees. Aaron lives in Seattle with his family.

Andrew W. Wyckoff is the Former Director of the OECD’s Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) where he oversaw OECD’s work on innovation, business dynamics, science and technology, information and communication technology policy as well as the statistical work associated with each of these areas.

His experience prior to the OECD includes being a program manager of the Information, Telecommunications and Commerce program of the US Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), an economist at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and a programmer at The Brookings Institution.

He has served as an expert on various advisory groups and panels which include joining the Global Board of Trustees of Digital Future Society (DFS), being a Commissioner on the Lancet/FT Governing Health Futures 2030 Commission, the International Advisory Board of the Research Council of Norway and Head of OECD’s Delegation at the G20 and G7 meetings on ICT and Digital Economy.

Mr. Wyckoff is a citizen of the United States, holds a BA in Economics from the University of Vermont, and a Master of Public Policy from the JFK School of Government, Harvard University.