Keynote Speakers
Mihalis Kritikos
Operationalising Ethics in AI: From European Values to AI Governance
Dr Mihalis Kritikos is a Policy Analyst at the European Parliament working as a legal/ethics advisor on Science and Technology issues (STOA/EPRS) and Fellow of the Law Science Technology & Society Programme of the University of Brussels (VUB-LSTS). Mihalis is a legal expert in the fields of EU decision-making, legal backcasting, food/environmental law, the responsible governance of science and innovation and the regulatory control of new and emerging risks.
He has worked as a Research Programme Manager for the Ethics Review Service of the European Commission, as a Senior Associate in the EU Regulatory and Environment Affairs Department of White and Case (Brussels office), as a Lecturer at several UK Universities and as a Lecturer/Project Leader at the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA). He also taught EU Law and Institutions for several years at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Dr Kritikos holds a Bachelor in Law (Athens Law School), Master degrees in European and International Environmental Law and Environmental Management (University of Athens and EAEME respectively) and a PhD in European Risk Regulation (London School of Economics-LSE). In 2008 he won the UACES Prize for the Best Thesis in European Studies in Europe.
Eirini Stamatoudi
Eirini Stamatoudi is a Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Nicosia (Cyprus) and a lawyer at the Supreme Court of Athens (Greece). She specialises in intellectual property and in cultural heritage law. From 2007 to 2018, she was the Director of the Hellenic Copyright Organisation.
She has taught at the University of Leicester (UK), on the joint LL.M. of the University of Turin, ILO, and WIPO (Italy), at the University of Ankara (Turkey), at the International Hellenic University (Greece), at the Academy of the World Intellectual Property Organization (Switzerland), and on several other academic courses.
She has undertaken cases of return of cultural treasures from abroad to Greece and was part of the negotiating team for the Parthenon Marbles at various stages from 1999 onwards. She was also a member of the Advisory Committees for the Parthenon Marbles. She has published numerous books and articles, some of which are considered internationally as works of reference.
