350th Session of the Governing Body (March 2024)
Panellists at the High-Level Section
21 February 2024
Amandeep Singh Gill
Amandeep Singh Gill currently serves as the United Nations Envoy on Technology, a position to which he was appointed by Secretary-General António Guterres on June 10, 2022. As a thought leader in digital technology, he has profound knowledge of how to leverage the digital transformation responsively and inclusively to achieve progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. His professional interests focus on digital public goods, science, security and international policy learning.Before assuming his current role, he was the Chief Executive Officer of the International Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence Research Collaborative (I-DAIR) project at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
Ifeoma Ajunwa
Ifeoma Ajunwa is an award-winning tenured law professor and the author of the highly acclaimed book, The Quantified Worker, published by Cambridge University Press. She currently serves as the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law and is the founding director of the AI and the Law Program.Her research interests revolve around the intersection of law and technology, with a specific focus on the ethical governance, privacy and discrimination issues associated with workplace AI and automated decision-making technologies.
Jeremias Adams-Prassl
Jeremias Adams-Prassl is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Magdalen College. He read law at Oxford, Paris and Harvard Law School. He currently leads a five-year interdisciplinary project exploring the rise of algorithms at work, funded by the European Research Council and a 2020 Leverhulme Prize.His research on innovation policy and labour markets is frequently drawn on by governments and international organizations, and has been cited by courts, policy documents and news organizations.
Natasha Crampton
Natasha Crampton currently leads Microsoft’s Office of Responsible AI as the company’s first Chief Responsible AI Officer. In this role, she defines and governs the company’s approach to responsible AI, contributing to discussions about the new laws, norms and standards necessary to secure the benefits of AI and anticipate and mitigate its risks.Before joining Microsoft, she worked in law firms in Australia and New Zealand, specializing in copyright, privacy, and internet safety and security issues.
Duncan Crabtree-Ireland
Duncan Crabtree-Ireland currently serves as the National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator of the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG–AFTRA). In this role, he oversees the world’s largest and most influential entertainment union, consisting of more than 160,000 members worldwide engaged in film, television, broadcast news, commercials, music, video games and other related fields.He is a strategic and creative lead negotiator, having personally led or overseen negotiations for SAG-AFTRA’s Netflix Agreement and its Videogames, Commercials, Music and Network Television contracts, among others. He also leads the union’s technology and innovation team.
Lane Dilg
Lane Dilg currently serves as the Head of Strategic Partnerships in the Global Affairs Team at OpenAI, which is dedicated to advancing the organization's mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Prior to joining OpenAI, she played a pivotal role in advising the leadership of the United States Department of Energy on the strategic deployment of substantial public investments in clean energy technologies.She has a proven track record of drafting and defending precedent-setting legislation in areas such as public health, affordable housing and worker protection.
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