Gry Hasselbalch is a Danish scholar, author, and senior policy expert specialising in AI ethics, data ethics, technology governance, and the politics of artificial intelligence and human rights. Based in Copenhagen, she works globally across research, policy, and public discourse.

AI Policy and EU Contributions As a member of the EU High-Level Expert Group on AI (2018–2020), Hasselbalch co-authored the EU ethics guidelines for AI that became a foundation of the EU AI Act. As Senior Key Expert in AI Ethics for the EU’s International Outreach for a Human-Centric Approach to AI (2021–2024), she led research and international diplomacy advancing rights-based and risks-based AI governance globally. She was part of the EU-US Technology and Trade Council working group that developed the EU-US Terminology and Taxonomy for Artificial Intelligence — a reference framework of more than 60 AI terms and definitions.

Books on AI and Data Ethics She is the author of three books: Human Power – Seven Traits for the Politics of the AI Machine Age (2025, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis), Data Ethics of Power – A Human Approach in the Big Data and AI Era (2021, Edward Elgar), and Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage (2016, co-authored with Pernille Tranberg).

Academic and Research Roles Hasselbalch holds a PhD in data and AI ethics and power from the University of Copenhagen. She is Senior Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg. She led the Data Pollution and Power Initiative at Bonn University, presented at COP27.

DataEthics.eu In 2015, she co-founded DataEthics.eu, a think tank advocating ethical and human rights-based data practices and challenging the power of big tech. In 2024 it received the Libre Prize Honorary Award for its impact.

Earlier Career For a decade she was driving the Denmark’s EU co-funded national awareness centre for youth online protection and empowerment under the EU Better Internet for Kids programme. During this period she contributed to UN IGF discussions, founded the Global Privacy as Innovation Network, and advanced youth participation in global internet governance.

Speaking, Advisory, and Media Hasselbalch regularly speaks at international conferences and contributes to high-level advisory groups. She has moderated and served as Master of Ceremony at events for the European Commission and other international organisations. Her work has been featured in CNN International, Euronews, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, and Wired.

Key topics: AI ethics, data ethics, AI governance, EU AI Act, human-centric AI, data power, technology and human rights, democratic digitalisation, responsible AI, European AI policy, data politics, AI terminology, international AI diplomacy.