Our People
Our Founders
The group of founders involves Michelangelo Baracchi Bonvicini, Robert Madelin and Luciano Floridi.


Michelangelo Baracchi Bonvicini founded Atomium-EISMD with the former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. The Institute convenes European universities, media, global businesses, governments and policymakers to develop innovative initiatives and frontier thinking based on scientific evidence to provide evidence-based analysis and advice in governmental and decision-making processes. In 2018 he launched AI4People Institute with Luciano Floridi.
Robert Madelin is the former Director-General DG Connect, European Commission. He is a policy thinker with four decades of public policy experience in the UK administration and the EU. Robert brings to our collaboration his experience in health, technology and consumer policy, and his knowledge of self- and co-regulation. Robert Madelin holds an Honorary Doctorate of the University of Edinburgh, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London.
Luciano Floridi is world-renowned as one of the most authoritative voices of contemporary philosophy. He is considered to be the founding father of the philosophy of information and one of the major interpreters of the digital revolution. In 2018 he launched AI4People Institute with the support of Atomium-EISMD.


Michelangelo Baracchi Bonvicini founded Atomium-EISMD with the former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. The Institute convenes European universities, media, global businesses, governments and policymakers to develop innovative initiatives and frontier thinking based on scientific evidence to provide evidence-based analysis and advice in governmental and decision-making processes. In 2018 he launched AI4People Institute with Luciano Floridi.

Luciano Floridi is world-renowned as one of the most authoritative voices of contemporary philosophy. He is considered to be the founding father of the philosophy of information and one of the major interpreters of the digital revolution. In 2018 he launched AI4People Institute with the support of Atomium-EISMD.

Robert Madelin is the former Director-General DG Connect, European Commission. He is a policy thinker with four decades of public policy experience in the UK administration and the EU. Robert brings to our collaboration his experience in health, technology and consumer policy, and his knowledge of self- and co-regulation. Robert Madelin holds an Honorary Doctorate of the University of Edinburgh, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London.


Luciano Floridi
First Chairman Scientific Committee AI4Peope Institute

Robert Madelin
Former Director General DG Connect, European Commission
Our People
Our scientific network brings together leading experts from academia with the most advanced range of skills needed across the different topics – technology, ethics, compliance, policy – depending on the stage of the implementation, the industry, the functional area and the organization ambitions.
We will select top academic experts who, supported by professional consultants, will create a dedicated team to respond to your needs.
For more information please mail to: people@ai4people.org

Burkhard Schafer
Professor of Computational Legal Theory, University of Edinburgh

Virginia Dignum
Professor of Responsible Artificial Intelligence at Umeå University

Donald Combs
Vice President and Dean, School of Health Professions, Eastern Virginia Medical School


Amanda Horzyk
AI Law Researcher, Responsible Natural Language Processing, University of Edinburgh

Fausto Pedro García Márquez
Full Professor, Castilla-La Mancha University, Spain (UCLM)



Cory Robinson
Associate Professor in Communication Design & Information Systems, Linköping University

Jacob Livingston Slosser
Assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen’s Faculty of Law


Vincent Müller
Professor and Philosophy & Ethics of AI Director at Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
