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Our Founders

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

Michelangelo Baracchi Bonvicini, CEO di AI4People

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, CEO di AI4People

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.

Michelangelo Baracchi Bonvicini, CEO di AI4People

Michelangelo Baracchi Bonvicini

CEO AI4People
Luciano Floridi

Luciano Floridi

Founding Director Digital Ethics Center, Yale University
First Chairman Scientific Committee AI4Peope Institute
Robert Madelin

Robert Madelin

Chairman Advisory Board AI4People
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

Burkhard Schafer

Professor of Computational Legal Theory, University of Edinburgh

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Virginia Dignum

Professor of Responsible Artificial Intelligence at Umeå University

Donald Combs

Donald Combs

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

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Rónán Kennedy

Senior Lecturer at University of Galway

Amanda Horzyk

Amanda Horzyk

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

Fausto Pedro García Márquez

Fausto Pedro García Márquez

Full Professor, Castilla-La Mancha University, Spain (UCLM)

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Fred Oswald

Professor of industrial-organizational psychology at Rice University

Hiroki Habuka

Hiroki Habuka

 Research Professor at the Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University

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Cory Robinson

Associate Professor in Communication Design & Information Systems, Linköping University

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Jacob Livingston Slosser

Assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen’s Faculty of Law

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Jean-Michel Loubes

Senior Researcher at INRIA, Statistician, AI Expert

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Vincent Müller

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