Meet the Chairs leading the development of the first General-Purpose AI Code of Practice

Co-Chair (Transparency): Nuria Oliver (Spain)

Nuria Oliver is the Director of the ELLIS Alicante Foundation and holds a PhD in AI from MIT. She has 25 years of research experience in human-centric AI, spanning academia, industry, and NGOs. Nuria is an independent board member of the Spanish Supervisory Agency of AI, a member of the International Expert Advisory Panel to the Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI, and a Fellow of IEEE, ACM, EurAI, and ELLIS. She is also the co-founder and vice-president of ELLIS.

Co-Chair (Copyright): Alexander Peukert (Germany)

Alexander Peukert is a Professor of Civil, Commercial, and Information Law at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. With over 25 years of experience, he is a leading expert on European and international copyright law, focusing recently on the intersection of copyright and artificial intelligence. He has been a member of the Expert Committee on Copyright of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR) since 2004 and is a founding member of the European Copyright Society, which he chaired in 2023/2024.

Vice Chair (Transparency): Rishi Bommasani (US)

Rishi Bommasani is the Society Lead at the Stanford Center for Research on Models as part of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. He researches the societal impact of general-purpose AI models, advancing the role of academia in evidence-driven policy. His work has won several scientific recognitions and been featured in the Atlantic, Euractiv, Nature, New York Times, Reuters, Science, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.

Vice Chair (Copyright): Céline Castets-Renard (France)

Céline Castets-Renard is Full Law Professor at the Civil Law Faculty, University of Ottawa, and Research Chair Holder Accountable AI in a Global Context. Her research focuses on the regulation and governance of digital technologies and AI from an international and comparative law perspective. She is an expert in AI law, personal data and privacy law, digital copyright law and platform regulation. She also studies the impact of technologies on human rights, equity and social justice.

Chair: Matthias Samwald (Austria)

Matthias Samwald is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence at the Medical University of Vienna. His research focuses on harnessing AI to accelerate scientific research, transform medicine, and contribute to human well-being, while ensuring that these AI systems are safe and reliable in their operation.

Vice-Chair: Marta Ziosi (Italy)

Marta Ziosi is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, where her research focuses on standards for frontier AI. During her PhD at the Oxford Internet Institute, she worked on algorithmic bias and collaborated on projects at the intersection of AI policy, fairness, and standards for large language models. She is also the founder of a non-profit organisation dedicated to ensuring that technology serves the public good.

Vice-Chair: Alexander Zacherl (Germany)

Alexander Zacherl is an independent Systems Designer. At the inception of the UK AI Safety Institute, he helped build the technical research team and the autonomous systems evaluations team. Previously, he worked at DeepMind on simulations and human interaction environments for multi-agent reinforcement learning research.

Chair: Yoshua Bengio (Canada)

Recognised worldwide as one of the leading experts in artificial intelligence, Yoshua Bengio is most known for his pioneering work in deep learning, earning him the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, “the Nobel Prize of Computing,” with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun. He is Full Professor at Université de Montréal, and the Founder and Scientific Director of Mila – Quebec AI Institute. He co-directs the CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains program as Senior Fellow and acts as Scientific Director of IVADO.

Vice-Chair: Daniel Privitera (Italy and Germany)
Daniel Privitera is the founder and Executive Director of the KIRA Center, an independent AI policy non-profit based in Berlin. He is the Lead Writer of the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI, which is co-written by 75 international AI experts and supported by 30 leading AI countries, the UN, and the EU.

Vice Chair: Nitarshan Rajkumar (Canada)
Nitarshan Rajkumar is a PhD candidate researching AI at the University of Cambridge. He was previously Senior Policy Adviser to the UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, a role in which he co-founded the AI Safety Institute and co-created the AI Safety Summit and UK supercomputing programme. Prior to that, he was a researcher at Mila in Montréal, and a software engineer at startups in San Francisco.

Chair: Marietje Schaake (Netherlands)
Marietje Schaake is a Fellow at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center and at the Institute for Human-Centred AI. She is a columnist for the Financial Times and serves on a number of not-for-profit Boards as well as the UN's High Level Advisory Body on AI. Between 2009-2019 she served as a Member of European Parliament where she worked on trade, foreign- and tech policy. 

Vice Chair: Markus Anderljung (Sweden)
Markus Anderljung is the Director of Policy and Research at the Centre for the Governance of AI. His research focuses on AI regulation, responsible cutting-edge development, compute governance, next to other topics. He is also an Adjunct Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and a member of the OECD AI Policy Observatory’s Expert Group on AI Futures. He was previously seconded to the UK Cabinet Office as a Senior Policy Specialist, GovAI’s Deputy Director, and Senior Consultant at EY Sweden.

Vice Chair: Anka Reuel (Germany)
Anka Reuel is a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University. Her research focuses on technical AI governance. She conducts research at the Stanford Trustworthy AI Research Lab and the Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory. She’s also a Geopolitics and Technology Fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard Kennedy School.