Meet the Glenlead Team
The Glenlead Centre has leading team of inhouse and external academic policy experts from a wide range of academic disciplines.
Professor Ann Kristin Glenster
Executive Director
Professor Ann Kristin Glenster is a legal expert on data protection, privacy, cybersecurity, and digital and AI regulation and governance.
Ann Kristin is a Research Professor at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities and an affiliate at the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL)
at the University of Cambridge. She was a 2024-25 Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School for Government where she worked with Professors Mathias Risse and Shoshana Zuboff on how to dismantle surveillance capitalism.Having founded the Glenlead Centre in 2021, Ann Kristin quickly secured a three year contract as a Senior Policy Advisor on Technology Governance and Law at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge. During her tenure, she authored numerous groundbreaking policy reports based on her original academic research that attracted the praise of legislators, policymakers, civil society organisations, and the media.
Notable reports was the Policy Brief: Generative AI and AI, Copyright, and Productivity, both co-published by the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, also at the University of Cambridge. In May 2025, she took on the role as the Minderoo Centre's Deputy Director.
Ann Kristin has also acted as Senior Legal Strategist to the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE). In 2023, she lead a workshop on deceptive design at the Nobel Prize Summit in Washington DC.
In addition to her much sought-after policy work, Ann Kristin is a published academic and she has taught at the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, London School of Economics (LSE), Brown University, and Harvard University.
She holds a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge and she conducted doctoral research at the Harvard Law School. She is a graduate of Columbia University.
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Dr Vaughan Connolly
Director of Education
Dr Vaughan Connolly (Cantab) holds a PhD and MPhil (Distinction) from the University of Cambridge. His research investigates school leadership, workload, teacher retention and student performance. In this work he has utilised econometric and machine learning methods.
Vaughan is originally qualified in mathematics and physics, and is a trained teacher of computer science.
With over twenty years of leadership experience, Vaughan has worked as head of eLearning and Director of IT and Digital Development. Most recently, he worked with UNESCO helping draft the first UNESCO Global Report on Teachers. He has also advised on a UNICEF investigation of COVID-related learning loss in Kazakhstan, part of which examined the use of technology during periods of remote learning. He takes a keen interest in regulatory issues affecting the use of emerging technologies in education.
Vaughan's work has been published by the London Review of Education, the Buckingham Journal of Education, and Routledge. His research has been referenced by several mainstream outlets, including The Telegraph and The Guardian.
Dr Lorna Waddington
Senior Research Associate
Dr Lorna Waddington is an Associate Professor of International History and Academic Integrity Lead at the University of Leeds. Dr Waddington’s work investigates the ethical and governance implications of generative AI, with a focus on academic integrity and academic freedom. Her research on the limitations of AI-detection tools and her recent co-authored study comparing Western and African ethical traditions advance more pluralistic and globally grounded models of digital responsibility.
She shares her findings with international bodies, including UNESCO, UNITAR, and ENAI, and has presented at major forums such as EuroSoTL. She also contributes public-facing commentary to The Guardian and Times Higher Education, and has delivered invited keynotes and talks including Wonkhe’s EduEspresso.
As founder of the “Humanity in the Loop” network, she collaborates with educators and policymakers to promote responsible, human-centred AI practices. Her current work examines how GenAI reshapes conditions for free inquiry—particularly in sensitive fields such as genocide studies—and supports governance strategies that strengthen democratic and academic resilience.
Dr Jude Brady
Senior Research Associate
Dr Jude Brady (Cantab) is an award-winning Education researcher. She gained her PhD from the University of Cambridge, following a mixed-methods study of teacher workload, stress, and school accountability systems. Her study was funded by the Pigott Scholars Programme.
Inbar Bobrovsky
Research Associate
With an MPhil in Ethics of AI from the University of Cambridge, Inbar Bobrovsky is an education researcher and AI ethics specialist who brings deep educational expertise to the broader challenge of AI governance. Inbar is co-founder of the AI and Education Community at Cambridge, part of the Intelligence Rising team, which develops and facilitates strategic simulation workshops to help decision-makers navigate AI futures, and is on the OpRaise research project team at Cambridge.
Inbar focuses on responsible AI integration in educational systems, combining education, project management, and knowledge brokering to develop approaches that empower students and educators to engage thoughtfully with emerging technologies while contributing to wider conversations about AI governance and policy.
Roxanne Persaud
Research Associate
Roxanne Persaud has worked with Cass Business School, National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), New Philanthropy Capital (NPC), the RSA, British Library, Whitehall departments, INGOs, and social ventures. Her academic work at Goldsmiths, University of London, builds on postgraduate studies at the London School of Economics and doctoral research at the University of Southampton on entrepreneurial failure. Roxanne focuses on ecosystem capacity building and new knowledge mobilisation through online community design and radical workplace approaches. Her work is underpinned by a human lens through which she explores societal ambition in modern organisations.
Dr Piers Bursill-Hall
Senior Research Associate
Having been educated in France, Canada, and England, Dr Piers Bursill-Hall (Cantab) holds a PhD in Mathematics and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics from the University of Cambridge. Piers has continued to work for the University where he has taught and researched the history of mathematics and the history of science and technology for more than four decades. He has also been a visiting lecturer at universities in Italy, the United States, Asia, and East Asia.
Dr Hilla Tal
Senior Research Associate
Dr Hilla Tal specialises in bridging the gap between research and policy by translating complex insights into practical solutions and identifying policy challenges. She has more than a decade of experience working in government, academia, non-profit, and the private sector, where she developed expertise in evidence-informed policy development and implementation. Her work in developing knowledge mobilisation frameworks fosters productive, research-informed dialogues among policymakers, translating research findings into evidence-based policy decisions. She designs strategic learning processes that ensure existing knowledge effectively influences policy development and implementation. Hilla holds a PhD in Education, with a focus on educational entrepreneurship and organizational change. She is currently interested in understanding and conceptualizing policymaking in the age of AI.
Bethany Shiner
Research Associate
Bethany Shiner is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at Middlesex University London where she has worked since 2015. She is completing her PhD at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, where she is writing her thesis on the right to freedom of thought under Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Megan Ennion
Research Associate
Megan Ennion (Cantab) is Research Associate at Glenlead, where she contributes to research and strategy at the intersection of education, technology, and policy. She is also a PhD researcher at the University of Cambridge, investigating the psychological and behavioural impacts of Generative AI.
She is the founder and lead of the AI & Education Community, a collective initiative of staff and students at the University of Cambridge who are interested in or working on AI in education. In addition to her doctoral research, Megan leads several studies conducted through the University of Cambridge, exploring how students and teaching staff in England use AI and perceive its role in education. She also works as a research assistant at the Digital Education Futures Initiative (DEFI), Hughes Hall, contributing to a project examining global university policies on AI.
She holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of Exeter, as well as a PGCE and a Master’s in Education from the University of Sussex, bringing an interdisciplinary and practice-informed perspective to her work.
Stephanie Lugg
Strategist & Editor
Stephanie Lugg (BA, JD) began her career as a US litigation lawyer before relocating to London and transitioning to management consulting. At Accenture and then EY, she specialised in strategy, risk, regulation, and compliance within the financial services industry, developing particular expertise in equity trading, clearing, settlement, and collateral management. Project work spanned London, New York, and Zurich. She also held in-house roles at Barclays in London and Aegon Asset Management (formerly Kames Capital) in Edinburgh. Stephanie now focuses her energies on editorial work at the intersection of technology and regulation as well as advising more broadly on strategic issues.
