Demetrius A. Floudas is a transnational lawyer, a legal adviser specialising in tech and an AI governance & policy theorist. With extensive experience, he has counselled governments, corporations, and think-tanks on regulatory aspects of policy and technology.
He serves as Visiting Scholar in AI Governance at Downing College, University of Cambridge, and is an Affiliate Professor at the Law Faculty of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, where he lectures on Artificial Intelligence Regulation. Moreover, he is a Fellow of the Hellenic Institute of International & Foreign Law and a practicing lawyer. He has worked for many years as a Polic…
Demetrius A. Floudas is a transnational lawyer, a legal adviser specialising in tech and an AI governance & policy theorist. With extensive experience, he has counselled governments, corporations, and think-tanks on regulatory aspects of policy and technology.
He serves as Visiting Scholar in AI Governance at Downing College, University of Cambridge, and is an Affiliate Professor at the Law Faculty of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, where he lectures on Artificial Intelligence Regulation. Moreover, he is a Fellow of the Hellenic Institute of International & Foreign Law and a practicing lawyer. He has worked for many years as a Policy & Geopolitical Adviser to cabinet-level decision-makers for several governments (including a full-time stint at the British Foreign Office) and consulted numerous international think-tanks and organisations.
In addition, D. Floudas has regularly provided incisive commentary on matters of Geopolitics, Foreign Affairs & International Relations to a number of respected international outlets, with his views frequently appearing in the media worldwide (BBC TV & Radio, Voice of America, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Washington Post, Politico and others)
He is currently involved in the European AI Office's Plenary drafting the Code of Practice for General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence and is a member of the EU.AI. Working Group for AI Systemic Risks. Prof. Floudas participates in the British Government's Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Focus Group on an independent UK AI Safety Office and is a Reviewer of the Draft UNESCO Guidelines for the Use of AI Systems in Courts and Tribunals. He has consulted the French Data Protection Agency (CNIL) on its AI public information outreach documentation and commented on the OECD plan to introduce risk thresholds for advanced AI systems.
Demetrius Floudas is actively engaged in catastrophic risks analysis & mitigation policy and is the Senior Adviser to the Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative.
E-mail: floudas {at} cantab {dot} net
