Meet Our Advisory and Impact Board

Peta Ashworth
Director, Andrew N Liveris Academy for Innovation and Leadership & Professor and Chair, Sustainable Energy Futures
The University of Queensland
St Lucia, Australia

“I am interested in how we avoid the unintended consequences of emerging technologiesTechnologies whose development and application are not completely realised or finished, and whose potential lies in the future. [...] through early stakeholderIn TechEthos, we invite different stakeholder to join our Advisory and Impact Board [...] engagementPublic engagement describes the myriad of ways in which the activity and benefits of higher education and research can be shared with the public [...] and deliberation to identify the potential impacts of these technologies on society and what the ethical considerations might be as a result.”

Cezary Biele
Head of the Laboratory of Interactive Technologies
National Information Processing Institute
Warsaw, Poland

“I’m interested in the all the human aspects of technology interaction, one of them being the ethical perspective on products using the artificial intelligence.”

Marie-Valentine Florin
Executive Director
International Risk Governance Center, EPFL – Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland

“Emerging technologies are marked by uncertainty and ambiguity regarding the outcome of their applications. This challenges societal and policy decision-making and requires specific strategies to anticiate their potential opportunities and risks.”

Eugenijus Gefenas
Professor
Center for Health Ethics, Law and History at the Medical Faculty of Vilnius University
Vilnius, Lithuania

“The ethics of emerging technologies are a source of challenges that shape the development of bioethics.”

Chiara Giovannini
Senior Programme Manager & Deputy Secretary General
ANEC – The European consumer voice in standardisation
Brussels, Belgium

“With new technologies information asymmetry, the assumption of informed consumer choice does not always work. We need to rethink our ethical approaches. Standards can be used to introduce values/principles in product design, underpinning legislation.”

David H. Guston
Foundation Professor & Associate Vice Provost
Arizona State University
Tempe, United States

“The opportunity to think in creative, cross-disciplinary and future-oriented ways – that can help people, too.”

Maura Hiney
Head of International Cooperation, Evaluation and Targeted Programs
Health Research Board
Dublin, Ireland

“Being involved in the TechEthos project is a terrific opportunity for me to get a sense of what might be needed in updates of the ALLEA European Code of Conduct, but also allows me to ensure that the basics of good practice don’t get lost in the complexities of new guidelines.”

Elena Mocchio
Head of Innovation and Development
UNI – Ente Italiano di Normazione
Milan, Italy

“I’m interested in exploring the implications of emerging technologies in relation to social responsibility and Responsible Research and InnovationThe term has come to refer to six 'policy keys' or priorities in the relationship between research and innovation and society [...] (RRI). “

Andrew Parker
Director
SRMGI – The Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative
Bristol, United Kingdom

“One of the few things we can be certain about with new technologies is that they develop in a highly unequal, imperfect world. Ethical considerations must be central, whether they are to be embraced or constrained.”

Maria Jose Rementeria
Social Link Analytics Team Leader
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
Barcelona, Spain

“My interests lie in the application of new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and Wearables to health. In particular, it’s important to consider the new ethical issues that appear with these new applications, and to detect and correct of biases related to AI and health.”

Ortwin Renn
Scientific Director
Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)
Potsdam, Germany

“The transformation towards a sustainable future requires innovations in technology, economics, politics and lifestyles. These innovations need to go hand in hand; they may start with new technologies such as windfarms solar panels, precision farming or metal recycling facilities. Such technologies can pave the path towards further changes in economic structures (for example, cooperative ownership), political decision making with more public participation and adjusted lifestyles such as less material consumption.”

Victor Vakhshtayn
Dean & Head of Research Center
Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, Russian-British University in Moscow
Moscow, Russia

“I am interested in how technological objects become subjects of social action and interaction and how emerging technologies create a new social architecture of everyday life. “