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Who we are
We are an alumni group for University of Oxford graduates that are passionate about enabling a more responsible technology and innovation landscape. Breaking down silos, we are a diverse community of computer scientists, economists, ethicists, philosophers, lawyers, and sociologists (to name a few!) working across the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors in different countries around the world. Founded in March 2022, we aim to foster a multidisciplinary dialogue on technology topics, as well as develop a network of experts that can work together to irrigate ethical decision-making around the globe.
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Our team
Emmanouil Bougiakiotis - President
Emmanouil Bougiakiotis is a PhD candidate at the European University Institute on collective data governance. Having worked in the regulatory sector, Emmanouil is a lawyer and scholar working in public law, human rights, and privacy. He has published research on renowned international journals on privacy and data protection and he actively participates in academic and other fora on various technological issues. He is a strong believer in interdisciplinary research on technological issues and he is looking forward to the opportunity to bring closer Oxonians across the globe working on technology and related subjects.
Emmanouil graduated from the University of Oxford with a Magister Juris in 2018, where he participated at the Oxford Privacy Information Law and Society Discussion Group. He also holds an LLB from the Democritus University of Thrace.
Mira Pijselman - Events and Communications
Mira Pijselman is a digital ethicist from Ottawa, Canada based in London, United Kingdom. A consultant specializing in emerging technology risk, she helps clients to practically operationalise responsible innovation across sectors for key disruptive technologies, such as generative AI and quantum computing. She joined the founding Committee of the Responsible Technology Oxford Alumni Network because she is passionate about empowering the next generation of socio-technical talent, as well as enabling alumni to work together to build the type of future that we want for the technology ecosystem.
Mira graduated from the University of Oxford with an MSc in the Social Science of the Internet in 2022, where her research centered on AI ethics, data ethics, data epistemology, smart urbanism, and digital geography. She also holds an HBA from the University of Toronto in Ethics, Society & Law and Peace, Conflict & Justice.
Lori Roussey - Outreach and Partnerships
Lori Roussey is a lawyer passionate about data protection, cybersecurity, access to information and effective access to justice rights. As an activist she is involved in strategic litigation projects to prevent undemocratically agreed state and corporate surveillance and lock in. She was for instance involved with a 2021 ruling of the highest EU court that required states to inform individuals who have been subject to secret intelligence or police surveillance once they are no longer perceived as a threat, a core safeguard demanded by digital rights activists for decades. In her career Lori advises on humanitarian and national security data rights compliance. She joined the founding of the Responsible Technology Alumni Network to help set up a beacon in the night for fellow students looking to dissociate the digital economy with a society where more comfort comes at the price of our right to intimacy and intellectual freedom.
Lori graduated from the University of Oxford with an MSc in the Social Science of the Internet in 2022, where her research centered on Internet economics of monopolistic actors, dual use technology regulation and the impacts of surveillance on human behavior. Her master thesis focussed on the outsourcing of data processing tasks to private actors by administrations in Public Private Partnerships and the loss of accountability and human rights erosion it led to.
Aikaterini Antoniou - Bursar
Aikaterini Antoniou is a DPhil candidate in Law at the University of Oxford. Her interests include EU law, administrative law, human rights, privacy and confidentiality. The focus of her doctoral thesis is on taxpayers’ procedural rights and tax authorities’ accountability in the context of Exchange of Tax Information. She convenes the EU Law Discussion Group at Oxford. She joined the founding committee of the Responsible Technology Alumni Network because she wants to bring together fellow alumni also interested in building a ‘responsible technology’ future.
Aikaterini graduated from the University of Oxford with a Magister Juris in 2018. She also holds an LLM in EU law and an LLB from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Jianlong Zhu - Digital Operations
Jianlong Zhu is a PhD candidate at Saarland University working on the application of AI in civic education. He joined the founding committee of the Responsible Technology Alumni Network to connect fellow alumni who are passionate about harnessing the power of digital technologies for social good, and looks forward to building and supporting a community for all Oxonians interested in shaping the future of technology and society.
Jianlong graduated from the University of Oxford with an MSc in Social Data Science in 2022, where he completed a thesis on the emotiveness of online misinformation. He also holds a BA in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College.