Alex Krasodomski leads the Chatham House Digital Society Initiative’s research on digital public infrastructure, state and private sector cooperation and competition on technology provision, and public AI. He is a fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), Demos and the Public AI Network, and is a co-organizer of AI Palace.
Until June 2022, he was the research director at Demos, and director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, during which time he authored more than a dozen major reports on digital election integrity, content moderation practices, digital regulation and the intersection between tech and politics.
Arthur Gwagwa is a research fellow in the Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies programme, based at Utrecht University. He has varied research interests in AI governance, including regulation, geopolitics, philosophical ethics, and intercultural non-domination perspectives that draw from the perspectives of under-represented groups, including indigenous groups of Africa, North America and the Antipodes. He is also a member of the Chatham House Digital Society Initiative’s Responsible AI Taskforce, a board member of the Stanford Journal of Online Trust and Safety, an expert on Zimbabwe for UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, and a member of the AI Academic Network of the Center for AI and Digital Policy. Arthur is a globally recognized human rights lawyer with a particular interest in human rights in the digital age; he is acknowledged as one of Africa’s pioneers in that area of law and as a change-maker in digital rights. In his spare time, Arthur is a college admissions counsellor.
Brandon Jackson is an expert in product innovation at the Public AI Network, an international coalition of researchers working to make the case for public investment into AI. He has over 15 years of experience building public-interest technologies in mission-driven start-ups in both the US and UK tech ecosystems. He has a BA in computer science from Yale University and an MPhil in the history of science and technology from the University of Cambridge, where his research centred on the public adoption of new technologies such as radios.
Elliot Jones is a senior researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute. He is currently working on approaches to foundation model evaluation and foundation model use in the public sector. At Ada, he has led research on the ethics of public service media recommendation systems, vaccine passports and digital contact tracing apps. He has previously been a researcher at Demos’s Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, and a summer fellow at the Centre for Governance of AI.
Stacey King is a director of trust strategy at Google, where she is responsible for developing and leading strategies that uphold Google’s values in response to emerging regulations. Prior to joining Google, Stacey served as both the Alexa Trust policy principal – developing principles, guidelines and technical solutions for the ethical development of AI, data and content – and as the business and technical leader of an Amazon subsidiary/incubation group. Stacey is a peer reviewer for the journal AI and Ethics. She recently completed a three-year visiting policy fellowship at the Oxford Internet Institute, researching notions of authorship, creativity, ownership and the public domain in relation to AI-generated works. She has a background in strategy, history and law.
Mira Lane is the senior director and founder of the Envisioning Studio at Google. Mira runs a multidisciplinary team focusing on showcasing the inspiring potential for advanced technologies to benefit people and societies. Prior to joining Google, Mira was the partner director and founder of Ethics & Society at Microsoft. There, her team was responsible for guiding technical and experience innovation towards ethical, responsible and sustainable outcomes. Mira holds numerous patents across platforms and collaborative interfaces. She has a background in art, computer science and mathematics. Her art has been featured in film festivals and galleries.
Micaela Mantegna is a video game lawyer and activist who is internationally recognized for her expertise in AI ethics, extended reality (XR) policy, and the complex relationship between AI, creativity and copyright law. She is an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, and serves on the World Economic Forum’s Metaverse Council, Chatham House’s Responsible AI Taskforce, and the Scientific Committee of UAMetaverse Chair. She earned fellowships at Google Policy in 2017 and TED in 2022, alongside Salzburg Global and Datasphere Initiative fellowships, and was the lead drafter of the ethics chapter of Argentina’s National AI Plan in 2019. Currently, she lends her policy expertise to organizations and governments, contributing to the development of metaverse policy around the world.
Thomas Schneider is ambassador and director of international affairs at the Swiss Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) in the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC). He is a long-standing expert in digital governance. For the last 20 years, since the UN World Summit on the Information Society in 2003, he has been leading the Swiss delegation on internet and digital governance issues in various international forums. He is the chair of the Council of Europe’s Committee on Artificial Intelligence, which in 2022 was mandated to negotiate a legally binding instrument on AI. From 2014 to 2017, he was the chair of the Governmental Advisory Committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and in this role negotiated the compromise among governments regarding the ‘IANA Stewardship transition’, the biggest reform in the ICANN system. He was responsible for the organization of the 12th UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Geneva in December 2017 on behalf of the Swiss government, and was co-chair of the IGF’s Multistakeholder Advisory Group in 2017. From 2020 to 2022, he was vice-chair of the OECD’s Committee for Digital Economy Policy.
Kathleen Siminyu is an AI researcher focused on natural language processing (NLP) for African languages. She works at the Mozilla Foundation as a machine learning fellow to support the development of a Kiswahili speech recognition dataset, and to build transcription models for end-use cases in the agricultural and financial domains. In this role, she is keen to ensure that the diversity of Kiswahili speakers – in terms of age, gender, accent and language variant/dialect – is catered for in the dataset and models created. She would welcome opportunities exploring the application of speech technologies in education.
Before joining Mozilla, Kathleen was regional coordinator of AI4D Africa, where she worked with machine learning and AI communities in Africa to run research programmes. One of these, a fellowship for African-language dataset creation, led to the creation of multiple African-language datasets. For this work, Kathleen was listed as one of the MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators aged under 35 for 2022. She has extensive experience as a community organizer, having co-organized the Nairobi Women in Machine Learning and Data Science community for three years. She continues to organize as part of the committees of the Deep Learning Indaba and the Masakhane Research Foundation.
Alek Tarkowski is the director of strategy at Open Future, a European non-profit organization that works to advance public policies and civil society strategies around openness and protection of the digital commons. He has over 15 years of experience with public-interest advocacy, movement-building and research into the intersection of society, culture and digital technologies. He is a sociologist by training and holds a PhD in sociology from the Polish Academy of Science.
In 2010 he established Centrum Cyfrowe, one of the leading Polish organizations promoting openness and internet users’ rights. Before that, he was a strategic adviser to the prime minister of Poland, co-authoring the 2009 report Poland 2030 and the Polish official long-term strategy for growth.
In 2005, he co-founded Creative Commons Poland; since then he has been an active member of the Creative Commons network. He is currently a member of the board of directors of the Creative Commons organization.
