Natali Helberger

Natali Helberger is a Professor of Information Law at the UvA and a member of the board of directors of the UvA’s Institute for Information Law. Since 2019, she is one of the leaders of the ‘Human (e) AI’ Research Priority Area at the UvA. She is also founder and Principal Investigator of ‘Information and Communication in the DataSociety’- an interdisciplinary research initiative into the way AI and algorithms affect the role, impact and regulation of data-driven communication and information platforms (together with Prof Claes de Vreese, Amsterdam School of Communications Research).

Helberger received an ERC Starting Grant in 2015 for her research on how data analytics is used in news rooms. In the VSNU’s research agenda ‘the Digital Society’, Helberger leads the Citizenship and Democracy programme and she is a Steering Committee Member of the National Research Agenda’s VW Data Kickstarter programme. Helberger is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and a member of the Royal Holland Society for the Sciences (KHMW). In addition, Helberger is member of the Council of Europe Expert Committee on AI and Human Rights, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Reuters Institute and the Florence Institute for Regulation, and member of the Steering Committee of the Swiss National Research Programme on Digital Transformation.

Knowledge transfer and valorisation play an important role in her work. For her research, Helberger works together with leading media companies, NGOs, consumer organisations, and has been a consultant for a variety of organisations such as the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, OECD, UNESCO and national governments and regulatory authorities.  The Artificial Intelligence Magazine Becoming Human has listed Helberger as one of the “100 brilliant women in AI ethics to follow ”.