Gry Hasselbalch is a Danish AI ethics expert, data governance scholar, and international keynote speaker. She specialises in the ethics and politics of artificial intelligence, data power, and democratic approaches to digital transformation.

She is the author of three books on AI and data ethics: Human Power – Seven Traits for the Politics of the AI Machine Age (2025), Data Ethics of Power – A Human Approach in the Big Data and AI Era (2021), and Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage (2016). She holds a PhD in data and AI ethics and power.

Since the early 2000s, Hasselbalch has contributed to European Union and global policy on AI, digitalisation, and data ethics. She has advised governments, international organisations, and public institutions on the societal impact of AI and emerging technologies. She has moderated and spoken at high-level events for the European Commission and other international bodies.

Her work has been featured in CNN International, Euronews, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, and Wired. She is recognised as a leading European voice on AI ethics, human-centred technology, and the democratic governance of data and artificial intelligence.

Key topics she speaks and writes about: AI ethics, data ethics, AI governance, digital power, humanistic AI, data politics, democratic technology, European AI policy, and responsible digitalisation.

Based in Copenhagen.