Lucas Costas dos Anjos

General Coordinator for Research and Technology, Brazilian Data Protection Agency (ANPD)

General Coordinator for Research and Technology at the Brazilian Data Protection Agency (ANPD) and Adjunct Professor in the Law Department at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, with a postdoctoral research at the École de Droit  of Sicences Po – Paris. PhD in Law and Legal Sciences from the Graduate Program in Law at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Main areas of expertise: Intellectual Property Law, Economic Law, Digital Law, Privacy and Data Protection, and Algorithmic Transparency.

Christian Lau

Co-founder, President and Chief Product Officer, Dynamo AI

Dr. Christian Lau is the Co‑founder and Chief Product Officer at Dynamo AI, a company that delivers secure, compliance-ready generative AI solutions for enterprises. He leads product development for large-scale AI deployments with customers such as Experian and Lenovo.

A Ph.D. graduate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, Christian brings deep technical expertise to Dynamo’s mission. Under his leadership, the team launched Dynamo’s guardrail products—DynamoGuard, DynamoEval, and DynamoEnhance—to help enterprises safely scale AI with low latency and strong guardrails.

He and his cofounder were recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2025 for their work advancing secure AI, and Christian actively engages the AI community—demanding responsible innovation in defense, financial services, and global operations.

Sonia Perez Romero

Head of Unit (AI Unit), European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)

Ms. Perez Romero is Head of Unit (ad interim) of the Artificial Intelligence Unit at the European Data Protection Supervisor. She is also the acting Head of the Office of the Secretary General. Before, she was Legal Officer at the Policy & Consultation Unit, where she advised on data protection in the banking and finance sector and in the e-health sector. Her previous experiences include working at the Single Resolution Board (EU agency), in the financial private sector and in the law firm Hogan Lovells, where she was associate lawyer in the Litigation & Arbitration Department.

Ms. Perez Romero is a qualified lawyer in Spain and in New York State. She holds a Degree in Law, a Master in European Legal Studies (College of Europe), and an LLM in International and American Law (Columbia University, New York).

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Lorrayne Porciuncula

Executive Director, Datasphere Initiative

Lorrayne Porciuncula is the Executive Director of the Datasphere Initiative. For the last 15 years, her professional and academic experiences have been focused on issues around data, Internet governance, infrastructure regulation, and communication policy.

Prior to leading the Datasphere Initiative, she was the Director for the Data Program at Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network (2020-2021), where the Datasphere Initiative was incubated. She worked at the OECD (2014-2020) as the Strategic Advisor and Internet Economist for Digital Economy Policy Division, coordinating issues related to data governance, artificial intelligence, and blockchain, and leading the production of several reports and country studies related to connectivity, infrastructure regulation, technology convergence, and inclusion. Prior to that, Lorrayne worked as an economist at the ITU, in the Secretariat of the UN-BBCom (2012-2014).

In 2025, Lorrayne was appointed to the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) Multi-Stakeholder Working Group on Data Governance, where she represents civil society and contributes to global discussions on equitable, interoperable, and inclusive data governance frameworks in the context of the UN Global Digital Compact. Lorrayne has also acted as the OECD focal point and speaker at high-level international meetings and fora such as the IGF, UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development (UN-BBCom), APT, UN-ESCAP, ECLAC, and EQUALS.

Lorrayne is an affiliate to the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, conducting research on data for development. She holds a Master’s degree in Development Economics from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland, an Executive MBA from the Quantic School of Business and Technology, and an International Relations bachelor’s degree from the University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil. She speaks English, Portuguese, Spanish and French.

Josh Lee Kok Thong

Managing Director for APAC, FPF

Josh is deeply passionate in the issues at the intersection of law, policy and technology, and is a changemaker in the spheres of the law of tech, and the tech of law.

As a legal architect that hopes to re-shape relationships disrupted by technology, Josh is the Managing Director, Asia-Pacific of the Future of Privacy Forum. In this role, he leads a team furthering FPF’s mission of advancing data protection best practices and the trusted development and use of emerging technologies in the region.

Josh received his LL.M. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in 2022, where he was named to the Dean’s List for his academic achievements. Josh was also a Richard Buxbaum International Graduate Fellow and a White & Case Kathryn Aguirre Worth Scholar. An active contributor to Berkeley Law’s student body, Josh served as the LL.M. Editor of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and co-founded B-LIT, Berkeley’s first legal innovation student organisation.

Before postgraduate studies, Josh served for half a decade in the Singapore Government. More recently, he was the Legal Policy Manager for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance in Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission, where he managed Singapore’s overall AI governance policies. Before that, Josh was an Assistant Director for Legal Policy in the Ministry of Law, where he drove criminal and civil legislative reform, particularly in technology and online harms. He also practiced as an international arbitration lawyer in a large Singaporean law firm.

As a driver of the tech of law, Josh is the first Chairperson of the Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation and Technology Association (https://alita.legal), a pan-regional industry platform driving legal innovation and technology initiatives in the region. Josh also co-founded LawTech.Asia (https://lawtech.asia) and etpl.asia, organizations that advance thought leadership on law and technology in Asia. In 2019, Josh was identified by Asia Law Portal as one of Asia’s Top 30 Persons to Watch in the business of law.

In addition, Josh is a member of Singapore’s Law Reform Subcommittee for Robotics and AI, where he authored a law reform report on “Criminal Liability, Robots and AI Systems”.  Josh was also a chapter co-author of Law and Technology in Singapore, which was edited by Professor Simon Chesterman, Professor Goh Yihan, and Judge of Appeal Andrew Phang. Given his keen interest in new technologies like AI and its potential impacts on society and governance, Josh is also a voting member of the IEEE P2863 Working Group on Organisational Governance of AI Systems, and holds research roles in the National University of Singapore and the Singapore Management University. He speaks regularly at conferences and dialogues in the law of tech and tech of law ecosystems.