Dr. Thomas Roth ist Jurist und hat im Verfassungsrecht promoviert. Er war viele Jahre international als Rechtsanwalt tätig. Seit 2009 ist er beim weltweit tätigen, forschenden Pharmaunternehmen Boehringer Ingelheim beschäftigt, seit 2017 als Head Global Data Protection & Chief Data Protection Officer und seit kurzem als Head Global Data Protection & AI.

Prof. Dr. Sandra Wachter is Professor of Technology and Regulation at the University of Oxford at the Oxford Internet Institute and is Humboldt Professor of Technology and Regulation at the Hasso Plattner Institute. At the Oxford Internet Institute, Professor Sandra Wachter leads and coordinates the Governance of Emerging Technologies (GET) Research Programme that investigates the legal and ethical implications of AI, Big Data, and robotics as well as Internet and platform regulation. Professor Wachter also serves as a policy advisor for governments, companies, and NGOs around the world on regulatory and ethical questions concerning emerging technologies.

Professor Wachter publishes widely in top journals, including Science and Nature and focuses on legal, ethical, and technical aspects of AI and inferential analytics, explainable AI, algorithmic bias, platform regulation, profiling, as well as emotion- and facial-recognition software. The societal impact of generative AI and hallucinations in areas such as the future of work, misinformation, free press, and human rights is also at the heart of her research agenda.

Professor Wachter is an affiliate and member at numerous institutions, such as the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Values, Ethics and Innovation, UNESCO, European Parliament Working Group on AI Liability, Law Committee of the IEEE, World Bank’s Task Force on Access to Justice and Technology, United Kingdom Police Ethics Guidance Group, British Standards Institution, Law Faculty at Oxford, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford Martin School and the Oxford University Press.

Previously, Professor Wachter was a visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. Prior to joining the OII she studied at the University of Oxford and the Law Faculty at the University of Vienna. She has also worked at the Alan Turing Institute, Royal Academy of Engineering and the Austrian Ministry of Health.

Professor Wachter has been the subject of numerous media profiles, including by the Financial Times, Wired, Nature, TechCrunch, der Spiegel, and Business Insider. Her work has been prominently featured in several documentaries, including pieces by Wired , Reuters, and the BBC, and has been extensively covered by The New York Times, Time Magazine, Reuters, Forbes, Fortune, CNN, Harvard Business Review, Guardian, BBC, Telegraph, CNBC, CBC, Huffington Post, Washington Post, Science, Nature, MIT Tech Review, New Scientist, HBO, The Sunday Times, and Vice Magazine.

Professor Wachter has received numerous awards, including the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award (2025) which grants EUR €3,5 Mio in funding, the O2RB Excellence in Impact Award (2018 and 2021), the Computer Weekly Women in UK Tech award (2021), the Privacy Law Scholar (PLSC) Award (2019) for her paper A Right to Reasonable Inferences: Re-Thinking Data Protection Law in the Age of Big Data and AI, and the CognitionX Outstanding Achievements & Research Contributions – AI Ethics Award X (2017 and 2023) for her contributions in AI governance.

Claudio Teixeira is Head of Digital Policy of BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation. BEUC is the Consumer Voice in Europe representing 42 national organisations in 31 countries. Since 2021, Cláudio has led BEUC’s work on Digital Services, Artificial Intelligence, Telecommunications and Data Protection. Prior to joining BEUC, Cláudio served as Junior Legal Attaché at the Permanent Representation of Portugal to the EU during the Portuguese Council Presidency of 2021. Cláudio holds a Bachelor, Master of Laws from the University of Coimbra and an LL.M. in EU Law from the College of Europe in Bruges.