Dr. Safiya U. Noble is the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the Director of the Center on Resilience & Digital Justice and Co-Director of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). She currently serves as a Director of the UCLA DataX Initiative, leading work in critical data studies for the campus. Professor Noble is the author of the best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic harm in commercial search engines, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press), which has been widely reviewed in scholarly and popular publications. In 2021, she was recognized as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow for her ground-breaking work on algorithmic discrimination.

Maya Wiley is the President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. She is a nationally respected civil rights attorney and activist who has dedicated her life to the fights for justice, equality, and fairness. Maya served as the first Black woman counsel to the mayor of New York City. Following her time at City Hall, Maya moved to academia as a faculty member and senior vice president for social justice at the New School University. While there, she chaired the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) with an intense focus on public outreach so that potential victims of police abuse were aware of ways to seek the board’s assistance. In 2021, Wiley was a candidate for New York City mayor.

As a Henry Cohen professor of public and urban policy at the New School, Maya founded the Digital Equity Laboratory on universal and inclusive broadband. She also worked in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Following the September 11 attacks, Maya co-founded the nonprofit Center for Social Inclusion, an organization that focused on transforming structural racism into fair opportunity at the intersection of race and poverty. Maya was also a senior advisor on race and poverty at the Open Society Foundations.

Maya earned her B.A. from Dartmouth College and her J.D. from Columbia Law School. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner, Harlan, and their two daughters and cats.

Stuart Russell

Stuart Russell received his B.A. with first-class honours in physics from Oxford University in 1982 and his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford in 1986. He then joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, where he is Professor (and formerly Chair) of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering. He is co-chair of the World Economic Forum Council on AI and the OECD Expert Group on AI Futures, and he is a US representative to the Global Partnership on AI. From 2011 to 2014 he also served as an Adjunct Professor of Neurological Surgery at UC San Francisco.

Russell is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award of the National Science Foundation, the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, the IJCAI Research Excellence Award, the ACM Allen Newell Award, the AAAI Feigenbaum Prize, the World Technology Award (Policy category), the Mitchell Prize of the American Statistical Association and the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, the ACM Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, and the AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award. In 1998, he gave the Forsythe Memorial Lectures at Stanford University and from 2012 to 2014 he held the Chaire Blaise Pascal in Paris. In 2021 he received an OBE from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and gave the BBC Reith Lectures. He is an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, an AI2050 Senior Fellow, and a Fellow of AAAI, ACM, and AAAS.

His research covers a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence including machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, real-time decision making, multitarget tracking, computer vision, computational physiology, global seismic monitoring, and philosophical foundations. His textbook "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" (with Peter Norvig) is used in over 1,500 universities in 135 countries. His current concerns include the threat of autonomous weapons and the long-term future of artificial intelligence and its relation to humanity. The latter topic is the subject of his book, "Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control".

Almudena Arpón de Mendívil Aldama, CAIDP Board Member

Almudena is a partner of Corporate and M&A and Head of the TMT Group at Gómez-Acebo & Pombo. She is the immediate past President of the International Bar Association (IBA). During her tenure as IBA President, Almudena promoted five strategic areas for the IBA and the legal profession:

- AI: Report on AI, “The Future is Now: AI and the legal profession” jointly with CAIDP (2024)

- Enhancing the value of the legal profession: Report on “The social and economic impact of the legal profession” (2024). This is the first report measuring in a quantitative and qualitative manner the contributions of the legal profession to the rule of law and SDGs. Mckinsey performed the data gathering and analysis. 

- Gender equality: Promoted gender equality at senior levels in the legal profession, especially with the “50/50 by 2023 Project”, resulting on a longitudinal report covering 14 jurisdictions across the globe identifying the policies that may help to break the glass ceiling in the legal profession (2024)

- Preparing young lawyers for the future, for which the IBA launched the IBA International Legal Practice Programme (2024)

- Launching the first IBA Legal Agenda 2023-2028, determining the key issues of the legal profession.

Almudena is Secretary General of Círculo Fortuny (Spanish association of cultural and creative industries) and its representative in the European Cultural and Creative Alliance (ECCIA) (2011 to date). Member of the Board of Directors and of the Executive, Appointments and Remuneration Committee of the Spanish satellite company Hispasat S.A. (2013-2018).  Almudena holds a Law degree from ICADE, a master's degree in EU Law from the College of Europe in Bruges (scholarship from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and a PIL from Harvard Law School. She has studied at the Academy of American and International Law.

Virginia Dignum 

Virginia Dignum is Professor of Responsible AI at Umeå University, Sweden, where she leads the AI Policy Lab. A Wallenberg Scholar and senior AI policy advisor, she chairs the ACM Technology Policy Council and is a Fellow of EURAI, ELLIS, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). She co-chairs the IEEE Global Initiative on AI Ethics and is an expert for UNESCO, OECD, and the Global Partnership on AI. She has advised the UN, EU, and WEF on AI governance and is a founder of ALLAI. Her upcoming book, The AI Paradox, is set for release in 2025.

Chinasa T. Okolo

Chinasa T. Okolo, Ph.D., is a Fellow at The Brookings Institution and a recent Computer Science Ph.D. graduate from Cornell University. Her research focuses on AI governance for the Global Majority, datafication and algorithmic marginalization, and the socioeconomic impact of data work. Dr. Okolo has been recognized as one of the world’s most influential people in AI by TIME and honored in the inaugural Forbes 30 Under 30 AI list. In addition to her work at B rookings, Dr. Okolo serves as a Drafting Member of the Nigerian National AI Strategy, a Consulting Expert to the 

African Union AI Continental Strategy, and an Expert Contributing Writer to the International AI Safety Report.

Kyoko Yoshinaga

Kyoko Yoshinaga is a Project Associate Professor at Keio University’s Graduate School of Media and Governance and a Non-Resident Fellow at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy. She specializes in AI governance, ethics, and law, focusing on how different countries address these issues. In Japan, she was a member of METI’s Committee on AI Guidelines for Business and serves on several corporate AI ethics boards, including SoftBank. Internationally, she is an expert with the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI). She previously worked for Mitsubishi Research Institute and was a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law’s Information Society Project.

Dr. Kutoma Wakunuma 

Dr Kutoma Wakunuma is an Associate Professor at De Montfort University. Her research interests and expertise primarily focus on the social and ethical implications of current and emerging technologies on modern society both in the Global North and Global South. This focus has led her to contribute to global discussions on technology and society on such forums as the UNs Science Summit; the UN Academic Impact Commission as well as the African Commission’s Human and People’s Rights on AI and other Emerging Technologies. Dr Wakunuma also serves as a European Commission Ethics Expert. She was recently named one of the top 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics for 2025. She champions inclusion, diversity and engagement in the global discourse on current and emerging technologies.

Adam Billen 

Adam Billen serves as the Vice President of Public Policy at Encode, where he crafts and advances Encode’s policy priorities and builds bipartisan, cross-issue coalitions. His work has included passing the first ever restrictions on AI's use in nuclear weapons operations in the FY25 NDAA, advancing the DEFIANCE and TAKE IT DOWN Acts to combat AI-generated nudes through the Senate, and pushing transparency legislation in states across the country. Before Encode he ran a successful School Board campaign in Seattle, worked on public opinion research at FGS Global, and published quantitative research on American political psychology.

August Gweon 

August Gweon is a regulatory lawyer and an associate in Covington & Burling’s Washington D.C. office. August counsels national and multinational companies on data privacy and technology policy, regulatory, and compliance issues, with a focus on AI and emerging technologies.  August regularly provides advice on U.S. state AI legislative developments related to synthetic content, automated decision-making, generative AI, and foundation models. August received a B.A. from Columbia University in 2020 and a J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2023.  As a law student, August served as a CAIDP legal extern covering U.S. AI policy.

Spencer Overton 

Spencer Overton is the Patricia Roberts Harris Research Professor and the founder and faculty director of the Multiracial Democracy Project at GW Law School. He is the author of the book “Stealing Democracy: The New Politics of Voter Suppression” and several law review articles on the law of democracy, including “Analyzing the Benefits of AI to Racially Inclusive Democracy” and “Overcoming Racial Harms to Democracy from AI.”  He served as president of and rebuilt the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (America’s Black think tank), and was a senior policy official in the Obama administration.

Gus Rossi 

Agustín ‘Gus’ Rossi Silvano serves as director at Omidyar Network. He leads strategic initiatives on tech policy, advocacy, and innovation, focusing on antitrust and competition policy, children’s online privacy, artificial intelligence, and supporting small- and medium-sized tech companies at the national, state, and international levels. Prior to joining Omidyar Network, Gus led global policy initiatives at Public Knowledge. At the Inter-American Development Bank, he served as director of the Multilateral Investment Fund. Earlier in his career, Gus consulted on digital rights issues for a member of the European Parliament.Gus holds a Ph.D. in political science from the European University Institute, an M.Sc. in international political economy from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and a B.A. in political science from Universitat Pompeu Fabra