I explore the intersection of copyright, freedom of expression, cultural diversity, and artificial intelligence. My research and teaching are driven by a passion for understanding how intellectual property law shapes creative industries, technology, and society.
I am currently looking into licensing models for Generative AI, working on a code of practice on responsible AI and investigating data flows.
Saba Shaukat is a pioneering international business and technology executive with over 25 years of experience. She specialises in leveraging frontier technologies to drive transformative change and has a deep expertise in transitioning FTSE 250 companies into the next wave of growth and profitability.
Currently, Saba is creating an AI Agency and heads Engagement and Innovation at the Accelerated Capability Environment (ACE), a joint venture between the Home Office and QinetiQ on AI, data analytics, deep fakes, economic crime and emerging technology. She helps the Government in accelerating digital transformation initiatives to drive disruptive innovation and implement policies to enhance security, national resilience, and UK prosperity.
Previously, Saba was the Group Director of Technical Capability and Innovation at QinetiQ plc, where she led a team of top scientists and engineers. She focused on frontier technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous systems, cyber technologies, immersive augmented reality, human-machine teaming, advanced materials, quantum computing, lasers, and human behaviour.
Throughout her career, Saba has driven transformational technologies resulting in over £1 billion in new revenue. She has extensive international experience in strategy and commercial development and has held several board positions as a Non-Executive Director and Trustee. She recently became a Board Fellow at the world-wide renowned Royal College of Art(RCA), the leading school in innovation design engineering with the capability to tackle complex challenges faced by society and the planet.
Saba’s career also includes significant roles at Capita, BT, Vodafone, Deloitte Consulting, and PwC, where she contributed to global market entry strategies, business turnarounds, and new technology ventures for both enterprise and consumer sectors.
An alumna of Harvard University’s Kennedy School for Executive Leadership Training and the London Business School with an MBA, Saba is a thought leader and board advisor. As a former regional board member of The Prince’s Trust, she has inspired young people from disadvantaged communities to win national entrepreneurial awards.
Saba is also a contributor to the bestselling book, The Power of Purpose. She is dedicated to embracing disruptive ideas and advancing skills, science, and technology for societal good amid rapid technological change.
In her spare time, Saba is an avid sailor, traveller, and explorer of new science and technological innovations for the 21st century.
I have spent the last 5 years leading the legal functions in high growth scaling two-sided marketplaces, specifically Checkatrade and Carwow, both of whom exist to make it easier to make high value transactions (new roofs, new cars) in industries which traditionally carry low levels of trust. I have a passionate interest in using tech to enable a better consumer experience.
I also lobbied for the DMCCA to be passed from a digital markets perspective, to ensure that the markets start-up and scale-up companies found themselves in were fair and enabled innovation.
As an in-house lawyer, my job previously revolved around contract reviews, but now the regulatory landscape is rapidly changing, with new regulations around Consumer Protection, AI, Data, Digital Markets etc, my role now is to keep my business in front of those changes and make they are implemented for the benefit of the company I work for and the businesses and consumers we serve. As a result, I have have been happily thrust into the world of policy, so I can capitalise on the opportunities provided by being in the right conversations at the right time.
PhD from the Oxford Internet Institute on narratives, tech, and creativity in India; currently a Research Fellow at Chatham House on issues related to tech policy, security and India; interested in the geopolitics of technology in a rapidly shifting world order.
Navneet is a multidisciplinary strategic communications expert. She has led political communications strategies, across digital and traditional media, for charities, elected representatives, and think tanks.
Navneet’s work and personal ethos are influenced by the history of art, literature, and moral philosophy. She is interested in narrative in public policy, and particularly how absurd and dystopian stories inform how governments imagine the future. Navneet’s current research interests lie in the realm of emerging AI technologies, corporate misconduct, and the global governance of big tech. In her work, she considers how nations can regulate – and provide new public imaginaries – about AI technologies that are disrupting the way we live and threatening our civil liberties.
Navneet’s work bridges the gap between communications, governance, and the law to push back against big tech’s visions of the future, and produce tech policy that truly works for people.
Nana Adjoa is a lawyer, technology enthusiast and social development activist. Nana Adjoa has served as the Secretary to the National Communications Authority, the national regulator of the electronic communications industry in Ghana. She works closely with the Chairperson, the Board and Management to ensure the efficient running of the corporate governance structures of the Authority. Prior to her employment with the National Communications Authority, she was in 2018 appointed the Executive Director of the National Folklore Board, the state institution responsible for protecting the intangible cultural heritage of Ghana. During her tenure, she facilitated the passage of the folklore user fees into law and the Folklore Board also gained international recognition.
She was also a speaker on telecommunications at the 2023 International Bar Association Communications and Competition Conference in Rome, Italy and the 2023 International Bar Association Conference in Paris, France.
She is a board member of the Institute of ICT Professionals of Ghana as well as the Street Children Empowerment Foundation and a member of Women in Mining Ghana. She is also the founding director of the Social Bridge, an NGO that engages in social intervention projects. Nana Adjoa was a board member of the Precious Minerals Marketing Company (PMMC), the authorised body, legally permitted to assay, buy and sell precious minerals and to license agents in Ghana. She was also a member of the board of directors of the PMMC Jewellery Limited.
Nana Adjoa was called to the Ghana Bar in 2015. She has Certificates in Sustainable Dispute Resolution, Sustainable Development and International Anti- Corruption from the University of Milan, Italy and a Masters in Business Administration. She also has a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Certificate (MITx) in Policy for Science, Innovation and Technology.
Her legal expertise spans advisory services to international and Ghanaian clients on high profile transactions across various fields including corporate and commercial law, minerals and mining law, intellectual property law and labor law; due diligence reporting; drafting and review of legal documents, and providing clients with company incorporation and company secretarial services. She has worked with reputable law firms in Ghana namely Kulendi@Law, and JLD & MB Legal Consultancy. She was one of the two young female lawyers selected in 2017 to participate in the ASLA (Association of Legal Studies Associates) Lioness of Africa Project where she worked with Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer and NCTM Studio Legale in Italy.
Nana Adjoa has also represented Ghana at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), UNESCO, the Commonwealth and Open Society Initiative. She has also published an article in the International Bar Association Newsletter and was a speaker on telecommunications at the 2023 International Bar Association Communications and Competition Conference in Rome, Italy, and at the 2023 International Bar Association Conference in Paris, France.
Nana Adjoa Adobea Khartey
Senior Partner, Afrimore Advisors
LL.B, MBA, MSc (Comm. & Int’l Marketing), Cert. Int’l Space Law, Cert. AI & Tech Policy,
Cert. Dispute Resolution, MIoD
Nana Adjoa Adobea Khartey is a highly accomplished lawyer and governance strategist
with over a decade of legal leadership across telecommunications, fintech, intellectual
property, and regulatory policy. she brings exceptional cross-jurisdictional insight and a
deep understanding of legal systems in emerging and developed markets.
She is the co-founder and senior partner of Afrimore Advisors, a law firm headquartered
in Accra. As head of the corporate and technology practice of the firm, she provides top-
tier legal advisory to fintechs, ISPs, and digital platforms, shaping financial structures, IP
protections, and data privacy frameworks aligned with international standards such as
GDPR. She is recognised for her ability to lead legal innovation—leveraging digital tools
to enhance compliance, mitigate legal risks, and drive business growth.
Nana Adjoa previously served as Company Secretary of the National Communications
Authority (NCA), where she led governance reforms, spearheaded regulatory
transformation, and established the Authority’s first Dispute Resolution Committee—
significantly reducing litigation and fostering industry collaboration. Her tenure as CEO
of the National Folklore Board was equally transformative, culminating in the passage of
national legislation on folklore user fees, partnerships with UNESCO and Marvel Studios,
and a 60% increase in sector revenue through strategic IP licensing.
A boardroom mainstay, she has held non-executive directorships with government and
private sector institutions including the Precious Minerals Marketing Company and the
Institute of ICT Professionals Ghana. She is also the founder of the Adobea Khartey
Mentorship Series—empowering young women into leadership with an impressive track
record of advancement.
Certified in Negotiation, Mediation, and Sustainable Dispute Resolution from the
University of Milan, she is a strong advocate for alternative dispute resolution and conflict
transformation. Nana Adjoa is also a proud member of the Institute of Directors (Ghana
and UK), promoting excellence in corporate governance.
Nana Adjoa is an active global voice in legal innovation, having spoken at the
International Bar Association conferences (Paris, Rome and Mexico City), and
contributed to international legal discourse through publications on digital regulation
and space law. She holds certifications from MIT, Berkeley Law, McGill University, and
the University of Milan, and continues to serve on international committees in law,
space, and technology.
With a unique blend of legal, governance, and communication expertise, Nana Adjoa
Adobea Khartey offers clients trusted counsel at the intersection of law, innovation, and strategy.
Miranda is a Technology Policy Advisor at Ofcom, where she focuses on accrediting emerging technologies for Online Safety.
Previously, Miranda worked as a Policy Research Assistant at the Alan Turing Institute, helping to deliver an interdisciplinary research agenda in digital society and policy. She completed an MSc in Social Science of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute, where her thesis research focused on US labour unions’ responses to electronic surveillance of workers.
Her research is focused on digital inequities of algorithmic management in the workplace, the role of labour unions in shaping AI policy, and governance of data collection in the workplace. She also served as a member of the Trade Union Congress’ Expert Working Group on their proposed Artificial Intelligence (Employment and Regulation) Bill. She is also a representative for Prospect Union, where she is working with leadership to advance AI Charters and union involvement in AI adoption in the workplace.
Before moving to the UK, Miranda worked for the Chief Technologist at the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on issues relating to emerging AI/ML technology in the financial sector, including algorithmic bias in loan origination and credit scoring.
Mina Mohammadi is a data journalist and researcher. She currently works as an AI Policy Program Manager at the Mozilla Foundation. Prior to this, she worked as a Data Analyst at Google News Initiative. She holds a Masters of Science from the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford, and a Bachelors from New York University. Mina’s main research interests exist at the intersection of privacy-enhancing tech (PETs), tech workers rights and computational social science methods.
Product Compliance compliance expert with over 9 years experience within Trust & Safety space.