About the IAPP

Dr. Susie Alegre is an international human rights lawyer, author and keynote speaker with over 25 years’ experience working on human rights and accountability around the world. Her work focuses on the impact of technology and the digital world on human rights including our freedom to think for ourselves.

She is the author of “Human Rights, Robot Wrongs” (Atlantic Books, 2024) in which she explores the impact AI may have on our fundamental human rights, and the ethical dilemmas of emerging technologies. Her previous book “Freedom to Think” (Atlantic Books 2022) received widespread recognition and was named a Financial Times Technology Book of the Year 2022, a Telegraph New Science Book of the Year 2022 and shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Christopher Bland Prize 2023. Susie is a barrister and Associate at Garden Court Chambers in London. She is also the Director of Alegre International, Founder and Director of the Island Rights Initiative and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).

Her international career has included work for the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe as an adviser on human rights and counterterrorism and the European Union on combating corruption in East Africa. She has advised civil society operations including Amnesty International, JUSTICE, Avaaz and SumOfUs and 5Rights, governmental and intergovernmental agencies on human rights, international law and the development of law and policy around emerging technologies. A former an ombudsman at the Financial Ombudsman Service and Interception of Communications Commissioner for the Isle of Man, she currently holds senior judicial and oversight positions including being a Member of the Commission for Control of Interpol’s Files.

She is a regular contributor to print and broadcast media including the Wired World, the Financial Times, The New Statesman, TIME Magazine, City AM, The Irish Times, Sydney Morning Herald, BBC and Sky News.