Ann Kristin has been a doctoral scholar at the Harvard Law School and holds a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge. She has been awarded a Carr Fellowship in Technology and Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School for 2024-25.
Having founded the Glenlead Centre in 2021, Ann Kristin quickly secured its first substantial client in the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge. She is the Centre’s Senior Policy Advisor on Technology Governance and Law. Ann Kristin is also an affiliate of and Senior Legal Strategist to the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) out of the University of Oxford.
An expert on the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), she has advised several clients in the US and been an Academic Consultant for the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (CIPL) at Hunton & Williams LLP in London and Washington D.C. She has authored and co-authored numerous policy papers and reports including on AI and higher education for the Tambellini Group, and a policy brief on generative AI (with Sam Gilbert) for the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy and the Bennett Institute for Public Policy.
Ann Kristin is an experienced strategist and project manager. She has run cashflows of projects of up to £100 million, and overseen complex multi-stakeholder projects, including Triple Helix cluster projects for Innovation Norway. Before entering the law, Ann Kristin was a successful Executive Producer in Film and has been a voting member of the British Film and Television Academy since 2005. She also served on the Board of Directors of Women in Film and Television (WFTV). She has been a Fellow at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufacturing. Commerce (RSA) since 2009.
Ann Kristin has published in the Cambridge Law Journal, the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Privacy Law 6 & Business, and Computer Law. She co-authored a chapter on AI and intellectual property for the Research Handbook on EU Data Protection Law, published by Edward Elgar in 2022. She has taught at Brown University, the University of Cambridge, the London School of Economics (LSE), the University of Oxford, and Harvard University. She was an International Research Fellow at the Information Society Law Centre (ISLC) at the University of Milan 2022-23.
She is an affiliate of the Centre of Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) and the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), both at the University of Cambridge.
