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PAM DIXON

FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THE WORLD PRIVACY FORUM

Pam Dixon is the founder and executive director of the World Privacy Forum, a respected public interest research group. An author and researcher, she has written influential studies in the area of AI, identity, health, and complex data ecosystems and their governance for more than 20 years. Dixon has worked extensively on data governance and privacy across multiple jurisdictions, including the US, India, Africa, Asia, the EU, and additional jurisdictions. Dixon was among the inaugural appointees to the early OECD AI Expert Group, and participated in the crafting of the OECD AI Principles, which were ratified by member countries in 2019 and are now normative. Dixon is co-chair of the UN Statistics Data Governance and Legal Frameworks working group, and is an expert advisor to WHO’s Health Data Collaborative, as well as a member of its Data Governance working group. At NIST’s AI Safety Institute Consortium, Dixon serves as a principle investigator. Dixon has authored / co-authored substantive work on AI, including A Failure to do no Harm, (Nature Springer 2018); Risky Analysis: A Global review of AI Governance Tools (World Privacy Forum 2023), The Scoring of America, (World Privacy Forum 2014), among other work. Dixon teaches courses in AI Policy and other topics for Carnegie Mellon University’s international program.  Dixon has presented her work on complex data ecosystems governance to the National Academies of Science and to the Royal Academies of Science. She has written 9 books and numerous studies and articles. Most recently, Most Dixon researched and authored a 4-year comprehensive study of global data governance laws and conventions, the first such work to be conducted to the UN’s M 49 standard.