Stakeholder Advisory Board

Amit Kumar, Ph.D., is a Senior Researcher at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries, New Delhi, India. He holds a degree in Engineering from the University of Delhi and a Ph.D. in Science Policy Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University. His research focuses on technology assessment and the ethical, socio-economic, and governance dimensions of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. He has contributed to national and international projects on science–technology–society policy, inclusive digitalisation, science diplomacy, and biodiversity. Kumar has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, contributed book chapters, and authored reports and policy briefs. His policy brief on “Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Jobs in India” was cited in the Government of India’s Economic Survey 2023–24. He is Associate Editor of the Science Diplomacy Review and Assistant Editor of the Asian Biotechnology and Development Review, an international, peer-reviewed open-access journal.

Anupama Vijayakumar, Ph.D., is Director at Trivium Think Tank, a research institute in Thiruvananthapuram, India. Her research sits at the intersection of science and technology, geopolitics, and international relations, with a focus on the governance of emerging technologies, AI ethics and strategy, bioeconomy, outer space policy, and science diplomacy. She holds a Ph.D. in Geopolitics and International Relations from Manipal Academy of Higher Education, where her doctoral thesis examined technological power dynamics in the international system. She also holds an M.A. in Geopolitics and International Relations from MAHE and a law degree from the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. Vijayakumar is Associate Editor of the Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs and has published in F1000 Research, Strategic Analysis, and JASIA. Her commentaries have appeared in The Diplomat, Modern Diplomacy, The Japan Times, and The Sunday Guardian.

Brando Benifei is an Italian Member of the European Parliament, currently serving his third term. He is Coordinator in the Committee on International Trade for the Socialists and Democrats Group and Chair of the Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with the United States. He is also a member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and a substitute member of the Committees on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, and on Legal Affairs, where he follows digital policy issues closely. In the previous mandate, he was co-Rapporteur of the Artificial Intelligence Act, a role for which he received the award for “Best MEP of the Mandate” from The Parliament Magazine in March 2024. Throughout his career, he has been actively engaged in shaping the European Union’s digital agenda, trade relations, and constitutional matters.

Chiara Giovannini is Senior Manager for Policy & Innovation and Deputy Director General of ANEC, the European consumer voice in standardisation. She has worked at ANEC since 2002, initially as Programme Manager. In her current role, she leads the organisation’s work on accessibility and digital society and is responsible for strategic and horizontal policy issues. Giovannini also deputises for the Director General and represents ANEC at high-level events, committees, and research advisory boards. She was a member of the European Commission’s High-Level Group on Artificial Intelligence and Ethics and now serves as a Sherpa of the High-Level Forum on Standardisation. Earlier in her career, she worked at the Swiss Consumers Organisation. Giovannini holds a Master’s degree in European Law.

Professor Dov Greenbaum is Director of the Zvi Meitar Institute for Legal Implications of Emerging Technologies at Reichman University, where he also teaches law at the Harry Radzyner Law School. He holds a Ph.D. in Genetics and Bioinformatics, a field combining biology and computer science, and has completed studies and postdoctoral work at Yale University, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and ETH Zurich. Before entering academia, he practiced as a litigator and patent prosecutor. In addition to his work in Israel, he lectures on Biomedical Informatics and Data Science at Yale University. His research and teaching span law, technology, and bioinformatics, and he is a certified privacy professional with the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Fredrik Heintz is Professor of Computer Science at Linköping University, Sweden, where he leads the AI4x Center of Excellence, the Division of Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Computer Systems, and the Reasoning and Learning Lab. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, in particular trustworthy AI and the integration of machine reasoning and machine learning. He is Director of the Wallenberg AI and Transformative Technologies Education Development Program, Co-director of the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program, and Coordinator of the TrustLLM project. He also serves as Vice President for AI Research at the AI, Data, and Robotics Partnership. Professor Heintz is a member of the Swedish AI Commission and a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Hai Lin, Ph.D., is Dean of the Research Institute at Far East Credit Rating Co., Ltd. and a leading expert on the digital economy and data assetization. He holds a Ph.D. in Law from Peking University and completed postdoctoral studies in economics. From 2007 to 2010 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Bayreuth and Tübingen in Germany, where he specialized in EU data governance and comparative regulation. His career spans securities regulation, stock exchanges, and Alibaba Group, with experience in global e-commerce and cross-border data operations. He has led provincial and national research projects in fintech and industrial digitization, and authored influential reports on topics such as financial IT localization and data asset registration standards. Lin advises provincial governments on strategies for data-driven industrial transformation and cross-border data exchange, aligning Chinese standards with global ESG frameworks and GDPR principles.

Linghan Zhang is a Professor at the Institute of Data Law, China University of Political Science and Law, where she supervises doctoral students. A former visiting scholar at Cornell University, she has published extensively on cyberspace law, algorithmic regulation, and AI governance. Her books include Research on Tort Liability of Online Virtual Property and Governing Power: Regulation of Algorithms in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. She has also translated American and Asian Feminist Law: A Trans-Pacific Dialogue and co-edited several law textbooks. Professor Zhang has led National Social Science Foundation projects on algorithm regulation and AI governance, and has served as a legislative advisor on laws relating to platforms, data security, and artificial intelligence. She is a member of the UN High-Level Advisory Body on AI, the National Network and Information Law Research Society of the China Law Society, and the National Group on AI Ethics and Guidelines. She also advises China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Ministry of Public Security on issues of cybersecurity and information law.

Maciej Chojnowski, Ph.D., is an independent advisor on trustworthy AI governance. He is co-founder and former Program Director of the Center for Ethics of Technology at the Humanites Institute in Poland and author of Etyka sztucznej inteligencji. Wprowadzenie, the first popular science introduction to responsible AI in Polish. He has been a member of the Government Working Group on AI at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland, where he led a project on operationalizing AI ethics requirements in line with the “Ethics by Design” approach. He also serves on Technical Committee 338 on Artificial Intelligence at the Polish Committee for Standardization. His work bridges research, policy, and the practical implementation of AI ethics principles.

Maura Hiney, Ph.D., is Adjunct Professor of Research Integrity at University College Dublin’s Institute for Discovery, where she collaborates with the Research Culture team on the links between integrity and research culture. In 2025, she was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in recognition of her contributions to research integrity policy. She is a founding member of the Irish National Research Integrity Forum and co-developed Ireland’s first National Policy on Research Integrity (2014, updated 2019 and 2024) as well as the 2022 Guidelines on Collaborative Research. She currently leads the first national survey on research integrity in Ireland. Internationally, she has worked with Science Europe and the ALLEA Permanent Working Group on Science and Ethics, where she co-authored the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity (2017, revised 2023). She serves on the boards of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation, the Embassy of Good Science, and several European Union project advisory boards.

Maya Sherman is a senior AI researcher, ethicist, and policy advisor with more than a decade of experience advancing global initiatives in AI ethics, digital transformation, and social innovation. She is Innovation Attaché at the Embassy of Israel in India, based in Delhi. Sherman is a Scientific Council Member of the Israeli Association for Ethics in AI, serves on the Advisory Board of FIDUTAM, and advises Yashoda AI, where she supports AI literacy programs designed to empower women. At the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, she serves as an AI Expert and co-leads India’s national initiative on AI literacy for the informal climate sector. Her work has directly benefited more than 20,000 farmers through multilingual training programs tailored to local contexts. As a member of the Future of Work Committee, she contributes to frameworks for the responsible integration of AI in the workforce, focusing on the impact of generative technologies. Sherman has published widely on AI governance, digital ethics, and disinformation, with contributions in Science and Public Policy, Routledge, and the Oxford Political Review.

Professor Simona Tiribelli is Director for AI Ethics at the Institute for Technology & Global Health in Boston, USA, an AI policy research and innovation center founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also Tenure Track Professor of Ethics of AI and Global Justice & Technology at the University of Macerata, Italy, and co-founder of GAIA, a university spin-off startup for ethical-legal AI assessment. She holds a European Ph.D. in AI Ethics (cum laude) and has been a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab and the New York University Center for Bioethics. Her research has received awards including a Fulbright scholarship and recognition from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Society on Social Implications of Technology. Since 2017, she has delivered invited talks internationally and published more than 40 journal articles, along with two books: Moral Freedom in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2022) and Personal Identity and Algorithms (2023). She serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Responsible Technology, advises European Union projects on AI ethics, and has contributed to World Health Organization and International Telecommunication Union programs on AI for health.

Professor Susan H. Perry is a specialist in international human rights law and digital technology. She holds the U.S.–UNESCO Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights at the American University of Paris, where she is a tenured professor and directs several graduate programs. She also serves on the French National Council for Human Rights, where she is Vice President of the Sub-Commission on International Humanitarian Law and Humanitarian Aid. As a member of the European Union’s advisory panel for the SHERPA project, she contributed to the legal framework for the Artificial Intelligence Act. Professor Perry has published more than twenty articles and monographs in three languages and appears frequently in European media. Her research focuses on vulnerable populations—particularly women and children—whose rights are violated by the state or industry, often in breach of international conventions. She received her Ph.D. from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, an LL.M. in International Human Rights Law from Oxford University, an M.A. in Chinese Studies from Yale University, and a B.A. in Semiotics from Brown University.

Theo Karapiperis, Ph.D., studied physics at the University of Sussex (B.Sc.) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.). He worked in research before moving to the European Parliament, where he served in the secretariats of the Panel for the Future of Science and Technology and the Committee on Industry, Research, and Energy. He later became Head of the Policy Department for Scientific Policy. From 2010 until his retirement in 2022, he led a unit comprising the STOA Secretariat, the Scientific Foresight Service, the European Science-Media Hub, and STOA’s Centre for Artificial Intelligence. From July 2022 to February 2024, he served as Vice-President of EuroScience.

Tom Lindemann is Secretary-General of the Luxembourg Agency for Research Integrity (LARI) and a board member of the European Network of Research Integrity Offices (ENRIO). As chief executive of LARI, he leads efforts to strengthen research integrity within Luxembourg’s public research system and liaises with institutional leaders of LARI’s member organisations. He will coordinate Luxembourg’s national implementation of the European Research Area’s Action 18 on a harmonised framework for research integrity and ethics in response to emerging challenges. At ENRIO, Lindemann co-leads the working group on strategy and positioning. His expertise includes research integrity, research governance, and research policy, with a particular focus on the intersections between research integrity and research ethics. In previous roles, he worked on research ethics more specifically and on broader questions of responsible research and innovation. He is also a member of the Stakeholder Advisory Board of the IRECS project and the Ethics Advisory Board of the REaDI project.

Vadim Pak is a lawyer and political scientist with extensive experience in human rights, international law, and governance. He spent nearly two decades at the European Court of Human Rights, working on a wide range of complex legal and institutional issues. He has also taught comparative human rights to U.S. undergraduates, focusing on differences between European and American approaches. Pak currently works at the Council of Europe on the sociotechnical dimensions of artificial intelligence, with a focus on its interaction with democratic values—human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. He contributed to the negotiation of the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention on AI and supported the development of HUDERIA, a methodology for assessing and mitigating AI-related risks in the public sector. His work bridges law, policy, and emerging technologies in multilateral settings.

Vinciane Gaillard, Ph.D., is Director for Research and Innovation at the European University Association, where she leads the implementation of the Association’s agendas for research, innovation, and open science. These agendas span the full continuum from basic research to applied innovation, designed by universities for universities and implemented by the EUA Research and Innovation unit. She is a strong advocate for the role of universities in shaping the European Research Area and works to promote a sustainable research and innovation system supported by sound regulation and adequate funding. Before joining EUA in 2019, Gaillard spent over 15 years as a researcher and research manager in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.