Workshop on Leadership and Civic Action

Carissa is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Institute for Ethics in AI, and a Fellow at Hertford College, University of Oxford. She has published articles in publications such as Wired, the Guardian, New Statesman and El País. Her academic work has been published in *The Harvard Business Review*, *Nature Electronics*, *Nature Energy* and *AI & Society*, amongst other journals. Professor Véliz is the recipient of the 2021 Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy. She advises policymakers around the world on privacy and AI. In Spain, she was a member of the Group of Experts tasked with advising on the drafting of the first Digital Rights Charter at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, as well as a member of the High-Level Advisory Panel on Technology and Global Order at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the UK, she has appeared as a witness before the House of Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee on freedom of expression, online harms and public policy. In the US, she has advised Congress on a privacy bill and has given evidence to the Chamber of Commerce. She is the author of the highly acclaimed *Privacy Is Power* (named *The Economist*’s Book of the Year in 2020) and the editor of the forthcoming *Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics*. She tweets at @carissaveliz.