AI Policy Leaders Academia Award for Gianclaudio Malgieri
Dr Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law at eLaw, will receive the AI Policy Leaders Academia Award from CAIDP Europe (Center for AI and Digital Policy Europe) alongside Professor Alessandro Mantelero from the Politecnico di Torino. The award is 'for their collective call on EU policymakers to include a fundamental rights impact assessment in the EU AI Act'.
The other sectors of the awards include Business (the awardee is the AI Act journalist Luca Bertuzzi), Civil Society (the awardee is EDRi, European Digital Rights) and Government (the award recipient is the Italian Data Protection Supervisor, Autorità Garante per la protezione dei dati personali).
After he received the good news, Gianclaudio Malgieri said: 'Thank you to CAIDP Europe for such an unexpected and significant honour. I believe that scholars should be more and more involved in the legislative decision-making process and have the academic freedom to pursue their mission (in this case, better protection of fundamental rights), not only on paper or in class. Thanks also to the eLaw Center for Law and Digital Technologies and the Brussels Privacy Hub for giving me that freedom.'
The awards ceremony will be held on the opening night of the prestigious CPDP Conference in Brussels on 21 May at 18.00. More information is available on the CPDP website.