Speakers

Biography forthcoming.

Colin Bennett is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Fellow at the Center for Global Studies at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. For over thirty years, his research has focused on the comparative analysis of privacy protection policy at domestic and international levels. In addition to numerous scholarly and newspaper articles, he has published seven books on these subjects, including The Governance of Privacy (MIT Press, 2006), as well several policy reports for national and international agencies. His current work focusses on the importance of privacy for democratic rights, and on the capture and use of voters’ personal data by political parties in Western democracies.

Dr. Clement Yongxi Chen is a Senior Lecturer at the ANU Law School of the Australian National University. His research interests span public law and law & technology. His publications have appeared in international journals such as Law & Social Inquiry, European Data Protection Law Review, and Artificial Intelligence and Law, focusing on greater China and from a comparative perspective. He was awarded a Hong Kong GRF grant.

Clement received his legal training at Sun Yat-sen University, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and The University of Hong Kong. He is an affiliate scholar at the Law and Technology Centre of HKU. He was a visiting fellow or professor at the Center for Chinese Legal Studies of Columbia Law School, the Yong Pung How School of Law of Singapore Management University, the Law Department of the University of Turin, and the Centre of Genomics and Policy of McGill University.

David Erdos is Professor of Law and the Open Society in the Faculty of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law in the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. He is also WYNG Fellow of Law at Trinity Hall. Reflecting a background in social science as well as law, David’s core research has explored data protection from both a historical and comparative angle especially within the EU and the G20. David has particularly explored the tension between data protection and freedom of expression and the inter-relationship between data protection, privacy and defamation law. David is the author of two Oxford University Press monographs and his work has been published in leading legal and socio-legal journals including the Common Market Law Review, International and Comparative Law Quarterly and the Journal of Law and Society.

Kamilatul Farikhah is a Researcher at the Legal Aid Centre for the Press (LBH Pers). She holds a Master of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Law. Her research focuses on comparative politics, public policy, gender-based violence, and democratic participation. Her current work also engages with issues of human rights, freedom of expression, and press freedom through research, policy analysis, and legal advocacy.

Gehan Gunasekara is a Professor of commercial law in the Department of Commercial Law. He has published widely on both data privacy and franchise regulation and is a regular commentator in news media. Gehan was a member of the academic reference committee for the Review of Privacy by the New Zealand Law Commission, advising it on updating the Privacy Act. He was instrumental in establishing and was, from 2019 until 2022, Chair of Privacy Foundation New Zealand Inc., a not-for-profit organisation that advocates for protection of the privacy rights of New Zealanders. He is one of the architects of and teaches in the University’s online Master of Information Governance Programme.

Zhilong Guo, Professor of cyber law, AI law and Criminal Law, China University of Political Science and Law. Holder of legal profession qualification certification (come out on top in the 2010 National Judicial Examination); bachelor in Law (2011); master in Criminal Law (2013), China University of Political Science and Law; PhD in Law (2018), University of Glasgow, under the supervision of Professor Lindsay Farmer (Fellow of British Aacademy) and Professor James Chalmers (Regius Chair of Law & King’s Counsel). Beneficiary of National Social Science Funding, Ministry of Education Funding, Ministry of Justice Funding, Beijing Social Science Funding and China Law Society Funding etc.More than 10 books (coauthor/editor), more than 40 CSSCI/SSCI journal articles (13 in top digests) and more than 20 writings in Chinese Social Sciences Today, Legal Daily, People’s Forum Site etc.

Bingnan Han is a doctoral candidate in Intellectual Property Law at Renmin University of China. He holds an LL.B. from Peking University and an LL.M. in Intellectual Property and Technology Law from the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on intellectual property law, data protection, and the legal regulation of artificial intelligence, with particular attention to the challenges posed by emerging digital technologies. He has published articles in Intellectual Property and China Copyright. His current research examines the implications of agentic AI for the purpose limitation principle in data protection law.

Liping has extensive experience in financial markets transactional work, focusing on capital markets and derivatives in top-tier global financial institutions and law firms. Liping has recently graduated with an LLM in Law and Technology from Singapore Management University and holds an LLB from National University of Singapore. 

Prof. Man Teng IONG serves at the Faculty of Law, University of Macau, focusing his core research on health law, tort law, contract law and the cutting-edge legal governance of artificial intelligence. Holding a PhD in Private Law from the University of Minho in Portugal, he boasts solid practical experience having worked as a legal advisor at Macau’s Health Bureau, linking academic legal theories with real-world healthcare regulatory practices.

His scholarship spans multilingual publications in Chinese, Portuguese and English and frequent presentations at international legal and medical conferences. His most distinguished achievement is authoring The Law for AI in Healthcare, published by Routledge. This authoritative monograph systematically dissects core legal, ethical and liability dilemmas triggered by AI applications across global healthcare industries. Dedicated to nurturing interdisciplinary legal talents, he continuously promotes academic exchanges and policy research on AI healthcare law throughout the Greater Bay Area and internationally.

Dr Maria Jędrzejczak – Assistant Professor at the Department of Administrative Law and Administrative Science, and Local Information Security Administrator at the Faculty of Law and Administration of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Member of the Scientific Council of the Personal Data Protection Law Institute at the Personal Data Protection Office in Warsaw.

Principal Investigator of a National Science Centre grant entitled “Personal Data Protection in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region” and of the project “Personal Data Protection and AI: Comparative Study of the US and the EU.” She has conducted research, among others, at the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the University of Hong Kong, Harvard University, and New York University.

Co-founder and board member of the Association for Research and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (ARAAI). Co-editor and co-author of the first Polish commentary on the AI Act.

Wanting Liu is a Lecturer at Liaoning University Law School. Her research interests lie in civil law and digital law, particularly private law remedies and the regulation of emerging technologies. She received her LL.B. and Ph.D. degrees from Jilin University School of Law, and her LL.M. degree from the University of Iowa College of Law. She has also been a research fellow at The International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT).

Alex Chanhou Lou is a Digital Life Initiative Fellow Researcher at Cornell Tech and a Macau Fellow Researcher at the University of Macau. He holds a Ph.D. in Law from Tsinghua University and was previously a Visiting Scholar at Duke Law School. His research focuses on privacy law, public law, cyber law, legal history, and AI governance, with particular attention to the historical formation of privacy rights in modern China, comparative privacy law in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the governance of personal information and data. His recent work examines contextual integrity, constitutional privacy, data as intellectual property in Chinese courts, and the legal implications of generative AI. His scholarship combines doctrinal analysis, comparative law, legal history, and critical discourse analysis, drawing on primary legal sources, case law, legislative materials, and socio-legal contexts.

Orla Lynskey is Chair of Law and Technology and Vice Dean (EDI) at University College London Faculty of Laws. She is also a Global Distinguished Professor of Law on the Notre Dame Law School London Programme, where she teaches a seminar on EU Digital Regulation, and a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges), where she teaches a seminar on Data Governance Dilemmas. She was previously an Associate Professor at LSE Law School (2012-2024) having spent a number of years in legal practice in Brussels (2007-2009). Orla’s primary research interests are in EU Digital Regulation, with a particular focus on data protection, digital rights and regulatory theory. Orla is currently Editor-in-Chief of International Data Privacy Law, published by Oxford University Press, and a section editor for the Modern Law Review. She holds law degrees from Trinity College Dublin, the College of Europe (Bruges) and the University of Cambridge and she is called to the Bar of England and Wales.

Chikita Edrini Marpaung is Public Interest Lawyer and Researcher at Legal Aid Centre for the Press (LBH Pers) from Indonesia. Hold a Master of Arts in Non-Governmental Studies from Chonnam National University – South Korea, and a former Fellow of Oxfam Young Leader. Her research, writings and advocacy focus on human rights, freedom of expression and strategic litigation which engage with marginalised and minority groups.

Nguyen Thao Vy Ngo is a PhD student at the University of Exeter Law School and Managing Editor of the Vietnamese Journal of Legal Sciences of Ho Chi Minh City University of Law (Vietnam). She is a legal scholar specialising in international economic law, personal data protection, artificial intelligence governance and ethics. Her work has been published in prestigious international journals and book series, and presented at many leading academic forums, including those held by the University of Oxford, the National University of Singapore, and the Cambridge Forum on AI. Beyond academia, she actively contributes to policy discussions on data governance and digital regulation as an invited expert by the Vietnamese Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, positioning her research at the forefront of debates on law, trade, and technology.

Dr. Tu Nguyen has nearly 20 years of experience in teaching, research, legal practice, and professional training for NGOs, corporations, and law firms. She has an extensive record of research, professional engagement, and academic publications in banking and finance law, FinTech regulation, tax law, human rights, financial inclusion, and legal aspects of digital transformation.

She currently serves as a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of the International Cooperation Department at Hanoi Law University, and previously as Deputy Head of the Finance and Banking Law Department. She has authored over 20 research papers, law review articles, and books, focusing on banking and finance law, Fintech, tax law, and human rights. Her research particularly explores the intersection of financial regulations, digital transformation in banking, legal frameworks for financial inclusion, and gender equality.

Biography forthcoming.

Dr. Megan Prictor is Associate Professor and Associate Dean (JD) at Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne. She co-directs the Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) research group and is an Associate of the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health. Megan is a leading researcher at the intersection of law and health technology. Her research examines how legal frameworks can protect individual autonomy and dignity in data-centric environments, with particular attention to algorithmic decision making, consent models and cross-border data flows. Megan combines doctrinal analysis with empirical methods to assess the practical impacts of privacy regimes and clickwrap contracts on individuals, communities and institutions. She has published extensively on healthcare consultation recording and electronic medical records, and she regularly appears in the media on emerging issues. Her recent work examines the regulation and privacy implications of AI scribes in clinical settings.

Biography forthcoming.

Biography forthcoming.

Ruoxin Su is a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law and Criminology at Vrije University Brussel (VUB), affiliated with the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) research group and the Health and Aging Law Lab (HALL). Her PhD research focuses on the use of genetic data in scientific research from a comparative perspective through EU and Chinese law, under the supervision of Prof. Paul Quinn. Her research areas include data protection law, health data, medical device regulation, and Chinese digital laws and policies. Ruoxin serves as a legal expert in new technologies under the European Data Protection Board’s Support Pool of Experts Programme (2026-2030). She is also contributing to several EU-funded projects on planetary health, gender equality, and medical device cybersecurity. Before joining VUB, Ruoxin worked in a top-tier law firm in Beijing, practicing data privacy, cybersecurity, and digital services law, and worked within a Big Tech’s global privacy team.

Alan Toy is an Associate Professor in commercial law at the University of Auckland Business School. He has specialties in employment law and data privacy and has published internationally in leading academic journals. Alan is the primary architect of the Master of Information Governance (MInfoGov). Alan taught the initial class for the inaugural cohort in this degree and remains involved at all stages of the programme.

Dr. Umut Turksen is a Professor in Law at the University of Exeter. Umut is a business-facing legal scholar, and he is interested in the practical application of the law in risk, compliance and development for businesses. He has provided consultancy and training to prestigious international businesses and government projects on societal security, countering financial crime and terrorist financing and AI governance. He led the EU funded project “PROTAX,” (https://protaxwebtoolkit.eu which focused on countering tax crimes in Europe and coordinated the EU funded project, TRACE, (https://trace-illicit-money-flows.eu) which has created technology based solutions (including AI) for investigation of illicit money flows. Umut is a partner in and responsible for legal, social and ethics impact of the EU funded project, KEYSTONE (https://www.keystone-project.com/about-1), which focuses on standardisation of data management and data exchange and compliance across transport sectors and state authorities. In addition to his expertise in comparative risk and compliance across civil and common law jurisdictions, Umut is an expert in international and EU law and has published extensively on energy law and security, international trade law and development, and arbitration.

Biography forthcoming.

Xiaoxu Wang is a third-year PhD candidate in Law at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, specializing in the regulation of generative artificial intelligence. She holds a Master’s degree in International Business Law from the University of Leeds, UK. Her research adopts a comparative perspective on AI governance, examining how legal frameworks in Europe and Asia address emerging technological and societal challenges. By bridging insights from different jurisdictions, her work explores the interplay between law, technology, and data protection in cross-border AI applications.

Mr. Chenhao WANG is a PhD Candidate in Laws at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, focusing on corporate law, fintech regulation, and data law. His thesis, “Constructing a Systematic Regulatory Regime for Real World Asset (RWA) Tokenization,” is supervised by Professors Robin HUANG and Jingyi WANG.

He earned an LLM from The University of Hong Kong with a full Ng Teng Fong Law Scholarship and an LLB from East China University of Political Science and Law. He previously worked at Micro Connect Group, supporting contract drafting, transaction structuring, and cross-border data compliance. He also worked at A&O Shearman on corporate matters and at JunHe LLP on global capital markets matters.

His current talk is “Regulatory Restructuring in the Offshore Issuance of RWA Tokens by Assets in China: From a Data and Privacy Perspective.”

Siwei Wang is an S.J.D. candidate at Wake Forest University School of Law. Her research focuses on the intersection of law, technology, and economic governance, with particular attention to copyright, data governance, and platform power in generative AI markets. Her current work examines the structure of generative AI markets and the allocation of risk within them from an economic perspective, with a comparative focus on China and the United States. Prior to her doctoral studies, she received her J.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and her LL.B. from Southwest University in China. She practiced law in mainland China for two years and is admitted to the bar there.

Normann Witzleb joined CUHK Law in 2021. He was previously an Associate Professor and Associate Dean (International and Engagement) in the Faculty of Law of Monash University Australia.

His research focus is on privacy and data protection law, the law of torts and remedies, as well as comparative law. His recent book publications include the Research Handbook on Privacy and Confidentiality in Media Law (Edward Elgar, 2026, forthcoming), with M Richardson & D Clifford (eds); Tort Law and Practice in Hong Kong, 4^th edn (Sweet & Maxwell, 2025), with K Bokhary & N Srivastava (eds); Contract Law in Changing Times: Asian Perspectives on Pacta Sunt Servanda (Routledge, 2023), edited; Big Data, Political Campaigning and the Law: Democracy and Privacy in the Age of Micro-Targeting (Routledge, 2020), with M Paterson & J Richardson (eds) and Remedies: Commentary and Materials, 7th ed (Thomson Reuters, 2020), with E Bant, S Degeling & K Barker. Some of his recent research is available from SSRN and ResearchGate.

Prof Witzleb’s research project on “Updating Hong Kong’s Data Privacy Regime for the Age of Data-intensive Technologies” is supported by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council through with a General Research Fund (GRF) grant (2026-2028).

Prof Witzleb maintains an adjunct position at Monash Law. He is admitted to practice in the Australian Capital Territory, a barrister of the High Court of Australia and a fully qualified German lawyer. In 2019 and 2020, Prof Witzleb consulted with the Australian Attorney-General’s Department and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner on law reform projects in privacy and information law.

Renyi Xu is a PhD candidate in Law at the University of Glasgow, funded by the College of Social Sciences PhD Scholarship, and supervised primarily by Professor Lindsay Farmer FBA. His doctoral research examines the intersection of criminal law and AI, focusing on how criminal liability doctrines and theories should adapt to address risks posed by autonomous systems, with automated vehicles as a central case study. His work critically engages with the relationship between ex ante regulatory frameworks, including the EU AI Act, and ex post criminal accountability. His research interest in AI and law dates back to his undergraduate studies, and his LLM dissertation at the University of Edinburgh examined AI systems’ potential to bear criminal liability as autonomous agents. His broad research interests include AI governance, algorithmic accountability, and the theoretical foundations of criminal responsibility for emerging technologies.

Dr. Zhihua Xue is a professor at the School of Law, Wuhan University of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in law. He serves as a director of the Yangtze River Maritime Law Society of China Law Society, deputy secretary general of the Administrative Law Research Association of Hubei Law Society, and an arbitrator of Wuhan Arbitration Commission. He has published over 30 articles in journals such as Medicine and Philosophy, International Studies, and Chinese Review of International Law. He has led ten national and provincial level projects, including a project funded by the National Social Science Fund of China. He is also the author of An Introduction to Technology Governance and Law (Wuhan University Press).

Prof. dr. Hong XUE is the Law Professor of Beijing Normal University. Prof. Xue is the National Expert on E-Commerce and Trade Digitization, and the CoChair of Expert Committee on Cross-Border E-Commerce of the World Internet Conference. She is on the Advisory Committee of the United Nations Network of Experts for Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific (UNNExT). She has been the senior arbitrator at China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) and World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center for more than twenty years. Her recent books in English includes Cross-Border E-Commerce in China: Law and Practices (2024) and Intellectual Property Law in China (2026).

Ms. Lingli YANG is a PhD candidate at Beijing Normal University.

Biography forthcoming.