Your AI experts

Paola is a recognised expert in AI and digital technology policy, with over a decade of experience delivering strategic advisory and leading high-impact initiatives across the private sector, public institutions, and multilateral organisations. Her work has directly shaped national and international digital agendas, influencing regulation and capacity building. She holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Oxford and has been appointed to two prestigious UNESCO networks: AI Experts Without Borders and Women for Ethical AI. Paola serves as AI Ethics Manager at Globethics and AI Policy Fellow at the Center for AI and Digital Policy. Her passion for ethical AI practices favoring minorities has earned her recognition as a sought-after keynote speaker at global conferences.

Kateřina is an experienced consultant, lecturer, and researcher with over 15 years of expertise in digital skills and emerging technologies education. At the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno Czech Republic, she leads courses focused on artificial intelligence and coordinates the research lab DETAIL. Specializing in service design and learning design, Kateřina implements modern tools and generative AI into organizational internal processes. She is an active member of the technology community GUG.cz, a member of the cerna.ai strategic advisory group at Černá kostka, and serves as Chair of the Board at Svět neziskovek (World of Nonprofits).

Jenna Nassiri, PhD, is a Course Director in Social Anthropology at York University whose work bridges academic and applied practice across themes of migration, gender, and policy. She is especially interested in how digital and generative AI tools are reshaping research and learning. Recently, she supported the development of research integrity training modules at Toronto Metropolitan University, including a thematic module on the use of generative AI.

Dr. Cecilia Cannon is Managing Director and Senior Policy Analyst at PoliSync Centre for International Policy Engagement. She brings over 20 years’ experience in policy research, teaching, and strategic communications, and is passionate about building Tech4Good and AI-for-Social-Good capacity among nonprofits working to address global challenges. She currently directs the UN OHCHR project on the racialised impacts of the securitisation of migration and previously led research for the UN Special Rapporteur on Migrants’ June 2024 report. Dr. Cannon has advised the UN, governments, NGOs, universities and businesses on policy research, advocacy, digital solutions, and research uptake tools. She earlier held senior roles at the Geneva Graduate Institute and has consulted widely since 2013. She holds a PhD in International Relations/Political Science from the Graduate Institute.

Tea Mustać is an AI governance and privacy specialist, currently pursuing an LL.M. at Harvard Law School. She works at the intersection of AI governance and data protection, helping organizations turn abstract regulation into practical action. Tea co-hosts RegInt: Decoding AI Regulation and co-authored The AI Act Compact. Her work has been recognized with the European Young Lawyers Award and the My Data Is Mine Award. She has spoken at global events like Web Summit and Dublin Tech Summit and regularly leads workshops on AI, tech policy, and leadership.

Dr Marie McAuliffe is the part-time Director of PoliSync’s Migration Shift Hub. She is the former head of the Migration Research & Publications Division at IOM and Editor of IOM’s World Migration Report – a position she held for nine years. She is an international migration expert with over 25 years of experience in migration as a practitioner, program manager, senior UN and government official and researcher. She serves on the editorial boards of journals International Migration and Migration and Development, is an Associate Editor of the Harvard Data Science Review, and is a regular contributor to the World Economic Forum’s op-ed series. Marie is senior fellow at the Global Migration Centre at the Geneva Graduate Institute and a Sir Roland Wilson Fellow at the School of Demography at the Australian National University.

Tim is a Principal Consultant at Aimpoint Digital with over a decade of experience in analytics. He first opened Tableau in January 2014 (version 7!) and has since consulted for more than 40 clients across consumer goods, finance, healthcare, charity, entertainment, and higher education. He's a five-time Tableau Visionary, Salesforce Golden Hoodie recipient. As a visual learner, he started a YouTube channel in 2019 that's grown to over 230,000 subscribers, and he's become a LinkedIn Learning instructor along the way. He also hosts two podcasts - A Decade Apart with his brother and Datum Podcast with Ravi Mistry. Beyond work, Tim is a dad, F1 fan, and ten-time marathon finisher.

Robin Sutherland-Harris (PhD) is an educational developer at York University’s Teaching Commons where she has been at the forefront of raising AI awareness and responding to its pedagogical implications for higher education. Robin has extensive experience facilitating interdisciplinary conversations and creating practical resources around Generative AI, currently sits on York’s AI Roundtable, and co-chairs the Council of Ontario Educational Developer’s GenAI Community of Practice and York’s GenAI Pedagogies Community of Practice.