Member Directory
Daragh Murray is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre & School of Law. He was recently awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship: ‘What does Artificial Intelligence Mean for the Future of Democratic Society? Examining the societal impact of AI and whether human rights can respond’. This 4 year inter-disciplinary project began in January 2020, and the project team will draw on expertise in human rights law, sociology, and philosophy. Current research has a particular emphasis on law enforcement, intelligence agency, and military AI applications, although the scope of the project is broader. Daragh’s research expertise is in international human rights law and the law of armed conflict. He has a specific interest in artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies, and in using human rights law to more effectively inform ex ante decision-making processes.
Professor Fussey’s research focuses on surveillance, digital sociology, algorithmic justice, human rights, intelligence oversight, technology and policing, and urban studies. He has published widely across these areas. The author and editor of six books, he is a director of the Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy (CRISP), and research director for the six-year ESRC funded Human Rights, Big Data and Technology project (hrbdt.ac.uk). He is experienced in public and media engagement and his award-winning research has been covered by BBC Newsnight, PBS Newshour (US), Nature, The New York Times, The Times, The Financial Times, The Guardian, La Repubblica, Le Monde, BBC Radio 4 (PM & File on Four) and other national news outlets across the world. Professor Fussey has also worked with public bodies across the EU on the regulation of overt and covert surveillance, with UN agencies on human rights in the digital age, leads the ‘ethics, human rights and technology’ strand of the UK’s national Surveillance Camera Commissioner’s Strategy and recently led the independent review of the London Metropolitan Police trials of facial recognition technology.
Ian Brown is a computer scientist specialising in Internet regulation information security and privacy. He is visiting CyberBRICS professor at Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School in Rio de Janeiro, and an ACM Distinguished Scientist. He was previously Principal Scientific Officer at the UK government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport; Professor of Information Security and Privacy at the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute; and a Knowledge Exchange Fellow with the Commonwealth Secretariat and UK National Crime Agency.
Douwe Korff is a Dutch comparative and international lawyer specialising in human rights and data protection. He is emeritus professor of international law at London Metropolitan University and visiting professor at the universities of Zagreb and Rijeka in Croatia; an Associate of the Oxford Martin School of the University of Oxford, a Visiting Fellow at Yale University (Information Society Project), and a Fellow at the Centre for Internet and Human Rights of the European University of Viadrina, Berlin.
Born on 29 March 1968
married, 5 children
1987 to 1993 studied computer science and biology in Bonn,
1993 to 1995 worked as research associate at the GMD Research Centre for Information Technology,
1996 to 2002 knowledge management consultant at an IT company (consultative function from September 2000 to September 2002),
2000 to 2018 Member of the German Bundestag,
Won the direct mandate in the city of Bonn in 2002, 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017,
2005 to 2013 Vice-Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) parliamentary group for the issues of environment, nature conservation and nuclear safety, food, agriculture and consumer protection and sustainability,
December 2013 to March 2018 Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Justice and Consumer Protection,
Since January 2019, Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information.
Juljan Krause is a Policy Associate and PhD Researcher at the University of Southampton where he investigates the global security and governance challenges of quantum communication networks. Juljan also works on the UKRI’s Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Hub where he develops policy briefs on AI-powered defence and cybersecurity projects. A graduate from the London School of Economics and King’s College London, Juljan was a policy advisor with the UK Cabinet Office and a Teaching Fellow at the LSE. Having followed a trajectory from philosophy to computer science and mathematics, Juljan remains the Editor-in-Chief of the established online journal Evental Aesthetics.
Lisa Dittmer is the Advocacy Officer for Internet Freedom at Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Germany. She works at the intersection of digital and security policy and press freedom on issues such as surveillance and platform regulation.
Dr. André Hahn, Member of the Bundestag, is the Deputy Chairman of the Left Party parliamentary group and a member of the German Parliamentary Oversight Panel (PKGr).
Niovi Vavoula is Lecturer in Migration and Security at Queen Mary University of London, from where she holds an LLM in European Law and a Ph.D. that examined the privacy concerns stemming from the establishment and operation of EU-wide information systems for third-country nationals. She regularly advises the European Parliament, the Commission, the Fundamental Rights Agency and NGOs on matters relating to EU immigration law, EU criminal law (particularly mechanisms for information exchange) and privacy and data protection law.