UNESCO Network of Experts on AI and the Rule of Law
Dr. Juan David Guti茅rrez Rodriguez (Colombia)
Juan David Guti茅rrez is an associate professor at the School of Government of Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, where he teaches and investigates public policy, public management, and artificial intelligence. He holds a PhD in Public Policy and an MSc in Public Policy from the University of Oxford. He also holds a Master of Law and Economics (LLM) jointly awarded by the University of Bologna and Erasmus University of Rotterdam and a bachelor鈥檚 in law from the Universidad Javeriana. He was an advisor to the Minister of Justice of Colombia and Director of Formal Justice at the Ministry of Justice. Juan David is a member of the Group of Experts of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), where he co-leads the Algorithmic Transparency in the Public Sector Project.
Hon. Jean Aloise Ndiaye (Senegal)
Jean Aloise Ndiaye is a Senior Magistrate and Advisor to the Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court. He has served as Chief of Staff to the First President of the Supreme Court and is the Head of the Supreme Court's information system, overseeing the Court's website, intranet, and database administration. Additionally, Hon. Ndiaye is the President of the National Commission authorizing the opening of establishments for gambling activities, managing casino application processes.
As a Lecturer at the Computer Engineering Department of the Ecole Sup茅rieure Polytechnique of University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Hon. Ndiaye teaches courses on the ethical and legal aspects of ICT and has published widely on this topic. He is also a UNESCO expert consultant and trainer on AI and judicial systems, where he trains magistrates and has contributed to drafting guidelines on the use of AI by judges.
Dr. Jake Okechukwu Effoduh (Nigeria)
Jake Okechukwu Effoduh is an Assistant Professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law of Toronto Metropolitan University. He worked as an international lawyer for 14 years, conducting legal advocacy in various ranks of domestic, regional and international legal systems. With expertise in technology law and human rights, Effoduh has also informed the regulatory frameworks and policy formulation on artificial intelligence (AI) for supranational bodies at the United Nations and the African Union; as well as for domestic institutions in several countries including Canada, the United States, Brazil, and Nigeria. Effoduh鈥檚 current research investigates how the governance of AI systems can effectively address algorithmic bias against Africans and people of African descent, as well as discrimination and unfair treatment based on protected characteristics such as race, gender, identity and ethnicity. His research is at the intersections of international law, human rights, and AI, with some of his works published by the Harvard Human Rights Journal; Oxford University Press; Journal of Robotics, AI & Law; African Journal of Legal Studies; and TWAIL Review. Notably, Effoduh served as Chief Counsel of Africa 鈥 Canada AI and Data Innovation Consortium (ACADIC), mobilizing the ethical use of AI and big data techniques to build governance strategies in Canada and countries in Africa. He has held multiple academic fellowships and delivered lectures at universities in about twelve countries. He is the author of 鈥淎 Decade at the Bar鈥 an anthology of legal experiences from Nigeria.
Dr. Miriam Stankovich (USA)
Dr. Miriam Stankovich, PhD, LLM, is a globally recognized expert in AI and digital policy, with an illustrious career spanning over two decades. She has collaborated with leading international organizations, including UNESCO, USAID, ITU, UNDP and the World Bank, providing expertise in AI regulation, digital innovation, and technology transfer. Her advice on digital economy reforms, cybersecurity, and data protection in countries across Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America is underpinned by a proven track record in coordinating large-scale policy and regulatory development projects, mentoring emerging digital governance talents, and fostering partnerships with governments, development partners, and private sector stakeholders.
Dr Stankovich is an advisor for UNESCO on AI and human rights, contributing to the development of a . She also co-authored the and serves as a lecturer at the ITU Academy, imparting knowledge on emerging technologies.
Her contributions to the World Bank include serving as a core regulatory expert for the AI Governance Note and developing an assessment framework for regulating the digital economy in Africa. Dr Stankovich has also contributed to significant USAID projects focusing on digital transformation and cybersecurity, such as Digital Frontiers, the Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure initiative in Ukraine and the Georgia National Governance Program.
Her academic accolades include a PhD in Technology Transfer and Development Economics, a World Bank McNamara Fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship in Intellectual Property and Technology Law at Duke University. Fluent in multiple languages, Dr. Stankovich is a prolific author and speaker, contributing to numerous publications and global conferences on AI, digital policy, and intellectual property.
Matthieu Quiniou (France)
Matthieu Quiniou is a Lecturer in Information and Communication Sciences at Paris 8 University (Paragraphe laboratory), co-holder of the UNESCO ITEN Chair, and co-director of the Master Digital Transitions. He is also a lawyer at the Court of Appeal of Paris (Partner in IP/IT at D&A Partners), holding a Ph.D. in law. His fields of intervention cover digital law, intellectual property, and FinTech, especially in cases involving developments in AI or blockchain. He is involved in technical standardization work as President of the CN Metaverse and a member of the CN Blockchain and AI at AFNOR (French standardization body). He is also an expert in AI and justice for the CEPEJ of the Council of Europe and coordinator of the Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board (AIAB) for the CEPEJ.
Dr. Els de Busser (Belgium)
Dr. Els De Busser is Associate Professor for Information Law and Programme Director of the Master Information Law at the, . She was previously Assistant Professor of Cyber Security Governance at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University. She is the Principal Investigator of the NWO-funded project Cyber Security by Integrated Design (C-SIDe project) and teaches courses on a broad range of topics including digital justice, data protection and privacy, legal aspects of cyber security, AI and human rights and European criminal law.
Dr. Maria Lorena Florez Rojas (Colombia)
Colombian lawyer, currently working as an Assistant Professor of Law at Groningen University. Lorena has received her Ph.D. in the program of Individual Person and Legal Protections at the Scuola Superiore Sant`Anna (Italy). Lorena is fascinated by the newest technologies and the way that they affect consumers and the market in general. She was previously an Assistant Professor of Private Law at Los Andes University in Bogot谩 (Colombia) where she taught in different courses from commercial law to law and technology. As one of the main projects, she develops the initiative named "The adoption of disruptive technologies (AI) in organizations through the creation and implementation of an ethical-legal toolkit". In addition, she participated in the creation, design and implementation of the MOOC fAIr LAC on "How to make responsible use of artificial intelligence in the public sector". Also, she participated in the development of the MOOC on Introduction to Artificial Intelligence of the Universidad de los Andes with Coursera, which is part of the creation of the Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence (MaIA) within which the design and creation of the module on Ethics in AI is directed.
Dr. Jhalak Kakkar (India)
Jhalak M. Kakkar is Executive Director at the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi as well as a Visiting Professor at the National Law University Delhi. She leads the academic and policy research at CCG across pressing information law and policy issues such as data governance and privacy, platform regulation, governance of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain, and cybersecurity.
Jhalak works extensively on AI regulation and data governance, providing policy comments to the Indian government and international organisations like OHCHR and GPAI. Jhalak is an Expert member of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) Multistakeholder Experts Group Plenary and member of the Working Group on Data Governance. She is an Expert member of the United Nations Broadband Commission Working Group on AI Capacity Building. She is also an Expert on the Asian Dialogue on AI Governance (collaboration between Singapore Management University and Microsoft) and engages in discussions around principle and regulatory design around AI in countries like India, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, China and Australia. Jhalak has taught at various forums, summer schools and undertaken capacity building workshops around AI including the UNESCO MOOC on AI and Rule of Law for judges.
Jhalak serves on the Board (Academic Constituency- Alternate Member) of the Global Network Initiative, a global organization that serves as multistakeholder platform for information and communications technology (ICT) companies, civil society organizations, academics, and investor groups. Jhalak also serves on the Steering Committee for the Action Coalition on Meaningful Transparency which aims to bring together a wide range of academics, civil society organizations, companies, governments, and international organisations to work on mapping existing efforts on digital transparency and identifying potential efforts to further develop this space.
She has been Programme Manager for the Technology and Society team at CCG. Prior to CCG, she was a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School (HLS) focused on the governance of artificial intelligence, and the regulation of fintech and blockchain. She has also served as an Editor on the Harvard Journal for Law and Technology. Additionally, she was part of the founding Board of the HLS Blockchain and Fintech Initiative and has since been an advisor to the Board.
Jhalak began her career at PRS Legislative Research, New Delhi, India, and spent six years at PRS working across various roles to provide non-partisan analysis to Indian federal and state legislators on policy, budgets and legislation. She led PRS鈥 engagement with Members of Parliament and provided them with analytical input and briefings on a cross-section of legislative and policy issues. Before this role, she was an analyst with the research team at PRS tracking legislation, budgets and policy on science, technology, strategic affairs, and natural resources.
Jhalak has graduated with an LLM from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, USA on a Fulbright-Nehru Masters Fellowship. She has a five-year integrated social science and law degree from the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, India.
Dr. Kamel El Hilali (France)
Doctor of Law from Paris Pantheon Assas University, Affiliated fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and consultant at Lysias Partner. Kamel also regularly teaches at law schools (Paris Pantheon Assas University, Universit茅 Catholique de Lille, Universit茅 Paris 8). His thesis, 鈥淔rom surveillance to vigilance of the government: The control of information and platforms in the United States鈥, analyses the U.S. and E.U. laws of electronic surveillance, foreign intelligence, international data transfers, content moderation, AI, and the regulation of online platforms. His research focuses on AI, the governance of online platforms, democracy, and human rights.
Judge Alfonso Peralta (Spain)
Judge Alfonso Peralta is a magistrate of the Spanish First Instance and Criminal Investigation Court no. 2 Guadix. He has previously been in Roquetas de Mar Court no. 1, Vera no. 4 and Guadix no.1. He is a PhD student in Law at the University of Granada on "Technocensorship of algorithms to freedom of expression". Judge Alfonso is interested in digital law, and different branches of technological law such as technological judicial process, predictive justice, technological judicial process, predictive justice, cybersecurity, cybercrime, artificial intelligence, social networks or ICTs. He has given lectures and written publications on artificial intelligence and law, ethics of artificial intelligence, regulatory framework of artificial intelligence, predictive justice, predictive police, digital justice, virtual trials, mass surveillance, encryption systems, social networks, technocensorship, moderation of online content, disinformation and "fake news" among other subjects.
Judge Alfonso is also Co-director of the course "Law and Artificial Intelligence" of the Continuing Education Plan of the CGPJ- General Council for the Judiciary organised together with the University of Granada and co-coordinator of the book with the same title as a result of this agreement. Co-director of the Master's Degree "Digital Law and Business Tech" at ediae-Escuela de Direcci贸n y Altos Estudios. He has been a UNESCO consultant for the Global Toolkit of AI and Rule of Law and is a Member of the Technical Committee of Standardization CTN 71/SC 42 - Artificial Intelligence and big data standardization in the field of artificial intelligence of the UNE Association (Spanish Association of Standardization non-profit). He has been a speaker in multiple forums in Spain and internationally. Judge Alfonso is a lecturer in the Master's Degree in Legal Tech and Energy Regulation at Universidad CEU San Pablo with the training department of the Cremades Calvo-Sotelo law firm and previously in the Master's Degree in Telecommunications, Internet and Audiovisual Business and Law (MNDTIA) at Centro Universitario Villanueva, and is a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Granada.
Member of the Spanish Judicial Network of International Judicial Cooperation (EJCN) - Criminal Division. He is trained in risk-based thinking and certified as an auditor with ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems, 27001 information security, 14001 Environmental Management System, 37001 Anti-Bribery Management Systems, 45001 Lead Auditor.
Speaker in multiple forums in Spain and abroad for UNESCO, the Dutch Judiciary (Rechtspraak), Egyptian Judiciary with the United Nations University (UNU-EGOV), Global Legal Tech Hub, Association of Judges and Officials of the Judiciary of Argentina (Colegio de Magistrados y Funcionarios del Poder Judicial de Corrientes de Argentina), Scuota di Diritto Avanzato of Italy together with European Lawyers Union, Advisory Council for Transformation and Digital Culture of Mexico, Comission VI of Senate of Colombia, Congress Cybersec LATAM, CGPJ- General Council for the Judiciary, C谩tedra Microsoft- Microsoft Chair, Spanish Army, ITAINNOVA, OdiseIA, General Council of Spanish Advocay (CGAE), Center of Legal Studies (CEJ), ISACA Madrid, CSI Radar, La Ley-Wolters Kluwers or Asociaci贸n Profesional de la Magistratura.
Lecturer on the Master's Degree in Legal Tech and Energy Regulation at Universidad CEU San Pablo with the training department of the Cremades Calvo-Sotelo law firm and previously on the Master's Degree in Telecommunications, Internet and Audiovisual Business and Law (MNDTIA) at Centro Universitario Villanueva. Guest lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Granada.
He has made various contributions in articles, and is a member of research projects of the COTEC Foundation, Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Newcastle in Australia for the American association Law & Society based at the University of Massachusetts. Member of the association OdiseIA, Observatory of the social and ethical impact of artificial intelligence. Member of the World Jurist Association.
Agneris Sampieri (Mexico)
Agneris Sampieri is a Mexican lawyer from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a master's student in the European Master in Law, Data, and AI (EMILDAI) program, with a scholarship from the European Union. She has more than 10 years of experience in research, litigation, and advocacy on law and technology issues and their intersection with human rights, both in civil society organizations and law firms. Agneris has also served in capacity building for judicial systems in Latin America through UNESCO's regional training on Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and has taught and lecturer at institutions and universities in Colombia and Mexico."
Aurore Hyde (France)
Aurore Hyde is a full professor of law at the University of Reims Champagne Ardenne. She is a member of the Centre d鈥櫭塼udes Juridiques sur l鈥橢fficacit茅 des Syst猫mes Continentaux (CEJESCO), and an associate researcher at the Fondation pour le Droit Continental and at the Institut d鈥櫭塼udes et de Recherches sur le Droit et la Justice.
After a PHD in contract law at the University of Paris Panth茅on Sorbonne, Professor Hyde focuses her research on the sources of law, the fundamental rights and the regulation of artificial intelligence and digital services.
Since 2018, she has been studying more specifically the digital transformation of law.
In particular, she has led interdisciplinary research into the regulation of tools that use artificial intelligence to automatically process previous court decisions in order to assess the outcome of certain disputes, referred to as predictive justice. This work has made it possible to identify the risks weighing on the fundamental rights of litigants and the independence of judges, to develop an analysis of the risks for designers, and to study the impact on the sources of French law, which is rather hostile to the rule of precedent.
This work is now being continued to measure the impact of these tools on litigation strategies.
In addition, a new aspect is now being studied: the impact of artificial intelligence on legal professionals in their role as drafters and analysts of contracts.
Mohamed Farahat (Egypt)
Mr. Mohamed Farahat is a lawyer admitted before the Egyptian Courts of Appeal and Administrative Judiciary, a member of the United Nations High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, a member of the Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group of the African Internet Governance Forum, a board member of the African Digital Rights Network and a board member of the Innovation for Change Network in the Middle East and North Africa. Former, Mr. Farahat was member and Vice-Chair of the Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group of the Internet Governance Forum in North Africa, and a member of the Steering committee of the Internet Rights and Principles Alliance.
Mr. Farahat works as a legal Expert with UNESCO Office in Doha, to deliver sessions during the training for judicial operators on AI and the Rule of Law, a consultant with UNESCO to prepare the report on the AI readiness Assessment of the Egyptian, and he has also worked as a legal expert and consultant with many international governmental and non-governmental organizations such as UNESCO, IOM, UNICEF, and UN Women.
Mr. Mohamed Farahat holds a Bachelor of Laws, a Postgraduate Diploma in International Law - Faculty of Law - Cairo University, a Postgraduate Diploma in Civil Society and Human Rights, a Postgraduate Diploma in Parliamentary Studies, a Postgraduate Diploma in International Negotiations - Faculty of Economics and Political Science - Cairo University, a Postgraduate Diploma in African Studies - Institute of African Research and Studies - Cairo University, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Migration and Refugee Studies - The American University in Cairo.