NUFFIELD FOUNDATION - Key Persons

Aidan Peppin

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Senior Consultant / Milltown Partners
Senior Consultant at Milltown Partners

Aidan is a Senior Consultant at Milltown Partners. Previously, Aidan worked as a Senior Researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute, leading our Public Participation & Research team and projects. At the Ada Lovelace Institute, Aidan ensured public voices and perspectives shaped data and AI policy and practice. He led work on projects including the Citizens' Biometrics Council, Who Cares What the Public Think?, and a UK-wide poll of public attitudes to AI in collaboration with the Alan Turing Institute. Aidan has more than 6 years' experience conducting public attitudes and participatory research projects at the intersection of technology and society, on topics ranging from nuclear energy and health technology to web search engines and AI. He holds an MSc in Sociology from the London School of Economics and has previously held positions at Wellcome and Understanding Patient Data.

Ali Shah

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Member of the Board
Global Principal Director for Responsible AI at Accenture / Board Member
Global Principal Director of Accenture

Ali Shah is a Global Principal Director of Accenture's efforts to ensure AI is a force for good, working in the interests of citizens and society. His expertise in AI, data ethics, privacy and regulation helps ensure Accenture and its clients can understand and address the challenges AI and emerging technologies present. Prior to Accenture he was Head of Technology Policy at the UK Information Commissioner's Office, where he was accountable for emerging technology regulatory policy. His leadership and expertise focused on AI, data ethics, cross regulatory collaboration and investigations, privacy by design engineering, and award-winning work related to AI risk and Childrens safety online. Ali has also held roles at the BBC related to emerging technology strategy, engineering, innovation, and AI ethics.

Alix Dunn

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Member of the Board
Director of Computer Says Maybe
Social Entrepreneur, Adviser and Strategist Specialising at the Intersections of Technology and Impact / Board Member

Alix Dunn is the director of Computer Says Maybe, a firm that builds decision-making infrastructure for socially beneficial deployment of emerging technology. She co-founded The Engine Room, a not-for-profit organisation leveraging data and technology to make the world a better place. She is a non-residential fellow at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, a member of the Technology Advisory Board to the International Criminal Court, and of the Advisory Council of the Open Technology Fund. She is also a board member of the Syrian Archive and Open Data Kosovo. Social entrepreneur, adviser and strategist specialising at the intersections of technology and impact

Amba Kak

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Executive Director / AI Now Institute
Technology Policy Strategist and Researcher

Amba Kak is a leading technology policy strategist and researcher with over a decade of experience working in multiple regions and in roles across government, academia, and the nonprofit sector. Amba is Executive Director at AI Now and Senior Research Scientist at the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University. She currently serves as a Senior Advisor on AI at the Federal Trade Commission where she advises the regulatory agency on emerging technologies. Prior to AI Now, Amba was Global Policy Advisor at Mozilla, where she helped develop Mozilla's policy positions, and supported a multi-pronged campaign for strong data protection law in India and Kenya. She also serves on the Program & Strategy Committee for the Mozilla Foundation, where she advises the non-profit on its philanthropic and advocacy work. Amba has been the recipient of the Google Policy Fellowship and the Mozilla Tech Policy Fellowship. She has published widely across academic journals and popular outlets, and her work has been featured in Nature, MIT Tech Review, Wired, among others. Trained as a lawyer, Amba received her BA LLB (Hons) from the National University of Juridical Sciences in India. She has a Masters in Law (BCL) and an MSc in the Social Science of the Internet at the University of Oxford, which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar.

Amelia Andersdotter

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Data Protection Technical Expert and Founder
Specialist

Amelia Andersdotter is a specialist in mathematical statistics and business law who has worked at the intersection of technology, society and law since 2009. Currently she is Director of Strategic Initiatives at Brussels-based CENTR, organizing European ccTLDs. She has been network equipment and internet protocol technical standards expert at UK-based human rights organisation ARTICLE19 and a Member of the European Parliament for the Pirate Party. Through the Swedish NGO Dataskydd.net she operates the Webbkoll privacy check service for websites, aiming to facilitate better technical data protection measures for all.

Andrew Snell

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Consultant
Consultant and Doctor

Andrew Snell is a consultant in public and health and a doctor in emergency medicine, with a special interest in health system development, health intelligence, health equity and the prevention of noncommunicable diseases. Andrew's current roles include an innovative joint appointment between Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, where he supports local health-system integration, population health-system development and the delivery of a hospital public-health strategy addressing health inequalities; technical support to the WHO Regional Office for Europe to help improve WHO support to and public health capacity in the 53 countries across the European Region; and a clinical role in the Emergency Department of Barnsley Hospital. Andrew has a range of experience in public health, global health and emergency medicine roles in the UK and internationally, including UK roles in local and regional health systems; national advisory roles; global health roles with the WHO and the UK's DFID (now FCDO); and medical work in Nepal, South Africa, New Zealand and Uganda.

Andrew Strait

as..@adalovelaceinstitute.org

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Associate Director ( Emerging Technology & Industry Practice )

Andrew is an Associate Director at the Ada Lovelace Institute and is responsible for Ada's work addressing emerging technology and industry practice. Andrew has spent the last decade working at the intersection of technology, law and society. Prior to joining Ada, he was an Ethics & Policy Researcher DeepMind, where he managed internal AI ethics initiatives and oversaw the company's network of external partnerships. Previously, he worked as a Legal Operations Specialist at Google where he developed and implemented platform moderation policies on areas such as data protection, hate speech, terrorist content and child safety.

Anna Colom

ac..@adalovelaceinstitute.org

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Public Participation and Research Lead

Anna is the Public Participation and Research Lead at the Ada Lovelace Institute. Her role focuses on ensuring public perspectives and experiences are embedded in Ada's research in rigorous, inclusive and meaningful ways. Prior to joining Ada, Anna managed the research on democratic innovations at Democratic Society, including the evaluation of deliberative mini-publics across the European Union and the UK. She was Director of Innovations and Learning at Africa's Voices Foundation and worked as a Senior Research Manager at BBC Media Action, working with teams across South Asia, and East and West Africa. Anna holds a PhD in Political Science from The Open University, where she has applied an intersectional lens to understanding how instant messaging mediates citizenship capabilities. She was formerly a journalist, documentary filmmaker and participatory video facilitator.

Anna Studman

as..@adalovelaceinstitute.org

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Senior Researcher

Anna is a Senior Researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute. Her work focuses on the impacts of data-driven systems and AI on healthcare, and the broader societal implications of changes in health technology. Anna has a background in journalism and research. Before joining the Ada Lovelace Institute she was a Senior Health Researcher/Writer at consumer group Which?, where she helped shape the organisation's consumer-facing response to the COVID-19 pandemic, led investigations into health inequalities and co-ordinated cross-organisational strategy on the protection of consumer data.

Anne Cheung

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Professor of Law / University of Hong Kong

Anneke Lucassen

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Professor of Clinical Genetics

Arzoo Ahmed

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Ethics Lead

Arzoo recently joined Genomics England as the Ethics Lead for the Whole Genome Sequencing Programme in Newborns. Before this, she was a Researcher at the Nuffield Council on Bioethics where she worked as public dialogue project lead on the Genome Editing in Farmed Animals Inquiry. She also contributed to the Council's active response programme and diversity and inclusion agenda. Arzoo has produced briefings on equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines and meat alternatives. She is also a Research Associate on the Qatar National Research Funded project: Genomics, Islamic Ethics, and Public Engagement. Prior to joining the Council, Arzoo was Director at the Centre for Islam and Medicine and a Research Associate at the Office for Public Management. Arzoo is completing an MA in philosophy at King's College London, and graduated with a BA in Physics and an MPhil in Medieval Arabic Thought from the University of Oxford.

Baillie Gifford

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Member of the Board
Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh / Board Member

Bartosz Maj

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Research Assistant

Bartosz is a Research Assistant at the Ada Lovelace Institute, focusing on the future of regulation within the digital economy. He has a BA in International Relations and recently completed an MSc in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Bartosz is interested in how machine-learning methods can be integrated into social science research.

Becky Ghani

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Interim Communications Manager ( Digital & Editorial )

Becky is Interim Communications Manager at the Ada Lovelace Institute, with a focus on editorial and digital. Becky's background is in journalism and digital publishing. Prior to joining Ada, she worked at the Open Data Institute, first as Technical Writer and then as Production Manager. Before then, Becky worked as a Digital Publishing Manager at a national NHS organisation, where she was responsible for a suite of digital products and completed an MA in journalism. She then worked as a writer and editor, working on editorial and digital projects for various clients, including the NHS, The BMJ, and various health trade journals.