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Jide Olugbade is a doctoral researcher of Science and Technology Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology, with a minor in International Affairs. His research covers global AI governance, the geopolitics of innovation, responsible innovation, and the ethics and governance of emerging technologies. Jide consulted as a member of the Network of Experts on AI with the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence. He has also worked on technology policy issues at RAND Corporation.

Martina Volpe Donlon is the head of the climate and sustainable development teams at the UN Department of Global Communications in New York, where she manages global campaigns and initiatives on climate action and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Earlier in her UN career, she led human rights campaigns and directed communications and change management at the UN Regional Service Centre in Uganda.

Before joining the UN, she served as Assistant Director at the Council on Foreign Relations, as Special Assistant to the Swiss Ambassador to the UN, as Deputy Cultural Attaché of Switzerland in New York, and as an overnight news editor at the online Wall Street Journal.

Ms. Renata Preturlan is a Social Affairs Officer at the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Among her responsibilities, she conducts analysis and research in support of intergovernmental processes on social development. In particular, she provides support to Member States in the context of the Commission for Social Development and the 2nd and 3rd Committees of the General Assembly. Prior to joining UN DESA, Ms. Preturlan served as a Human Rights Officer in the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, in Geneva and at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States. Prior to that, she had different roles in the national Government of Brazil, having contributed to policies on gender equality, transitional justice, indigenous peoples, migration and persons with disability.

Kalekye Kyalo (She/Her) is a human rights lawyer with 11 years of experience working across a wide range of human rights issues, including the prevention of torture, the rights of persons with disabilities, women’s rights, the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer persons, and the rights of people of African descent at national, regional and global levels. She is currently a Human Rights Officer at the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR), where she works on the human rights of LGBTIQ+ persons.