International Organisation Committee:  

Emanuele Baldacci – European Commission  
Jon Crowcroft – University of Cambridge, Alan Turing Institute  
Zeynep Engin – University College London  
Innar Liiv – Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia  
Stefaan Verhulst – New York University  
Barbara Ubaldi – OECD, Paris   

Special Track Chairs:  

Anil Bharath – Imperial College London  
Bilal Gokpinar – University College London  
Catherine Mulligan – World Economic Forum, UN Digital Cooperation  
Tom Smith– ONS Data Science Campus   

Advisory Committee:  

Niall Adams– Imperial College London  
Leigh Anderson – University of Washington
Jean Bacon – University of Cambridge  
Kenneth Benoit – London School of Economics and Political Science  
Gabrielle Demange – Paris School of Economics  
Anthony Finkelstein – UK Government Office for Science  
Rayid Ghani – University of Chicago  
David Hand – Winton Capital Management; Imperial College  
Helen Margetts – University of Oxford; The Alan Turing Institute  
Beth Noveck – New York University  
Alan Penn – University College London  
Rob Procter – University of Warwick; The Alan Turing Institute  
Peter Smith – University of Southampton  
Tom Smith – Office for National Statistics, UK  
John Shawe-Taylor – University College London  
John Taysom – Privitar  
Philip Treleaven– University College London  
Sir David Wallace – University of Cambridge  
Dame Alison Wolf – King’s College London  
Derek Wyatt – Royal Trinity Hospice; All Party Parliamentary Group on Data Analytics 
Milan Vojnovic– London School of Economics and Political Science   

Programme Committee:  

Thomas Baar – University of Leiden  
David Bounie – Telecom ParisTech  
Daniel Castro – Centre for Data Innovation  
Suleyman Demirsoy – Intel  
Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye – Imperial College London  
Seth Flaxman – Imperial College London  
Jasmine Grimsley – Office for National Statistics, UK  
Jose Manuel Magallanes – University of Washington; Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru 
Scott Matthews – Carnegie Mellon University  
Eric T. Meyer – The University of Texas at Austin, University of Oxford  
Slava Mikhaylov – University of Essex  
Suzy Moat – University of Warwick; The Alan Turing Institute  
Mirco Musolesi – University College London; The Alan Turing Institute  
Martijn Poel – Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Netherlands  
Tobias Preis – University of Warwick; The Alan Turing Institute  
Ralph Schroder – University of Oxford  
Jatinder Singh – University of Cambridge  
Akin Unver – Kadir Has University  
Michael Veale – University College London  
Diana Vlad-Calcic – European Commission  
Andrew Young – New York University  
Louisa Zanoun – UK Science and Innovation Network   

UCL Local Committee:  

Lauro Bovo – Innovation & Enterprise  
Graca Carvalho – Strategic Alliances  
Sarah Chaytor – Office of the UCL Vice-Provost (Research)  
Louise Chisholm – E-research Domain  
George Dibb – Industrial Strategy & Policy Engagement  
Siobhan Morris – Global Challenges for Justice and Equality  
Olivia Stevenson – UCL Public Policy 

11 – 12 June, London 

The 2019 conference was held at UCL, highlighting “Digital Trust and Personal Data” as its central theme, capturing growing worldwide concerns and interest in the topic following the EU’s introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR (Engin, 2018) (Page, et al., 2019) (Calzada, et al., 2019) (Jay, et al., 2019) (Jacobs, et al., 2019) (Giorgia, 2019) (Sander, 2019) (Lopez, et al., 2019) (Carr, et al., 2019) (Stalla-Bourdillon, et al., 2019) (Thornton, et al., 2019) (Janssen, et al., 2019) (Mureddu, 2019). It brought up issues emerging from the automation of decision-making processes with direct impact on human lives (for example, recruitment, criminal sentencing, loans and insurance), as well from the mass surveillance, and manipulation of voter behaviour.  The hype around Bitcoin at the time was a harbinger of the potential environmental cost of such highly advanced computational processes (de Vries, 2018). There was also a proactive effort to balance these concerns with the potential cost of not using,or the slow uptake of,data science technologies in the public sector.  The Data for Policy 2019 conference also hosted the launch of a new peer-reviewed open-access publication venue – the Data & Policy journal published in collaboration with Cambridge University Press (CUP). The journal became the second major activity stream for the Data for Policy community, providing a dedicated platform to collect and store cutting-edge research and cross-sector thinking shaping the field, as well as facilitating new forms of engagement with different stakeholders involved in this community. The 2019 edition of the conference hosted 231 registered delegates overall. 

Keynote Speakers 

Margot James MP UK State Minister for Digital & the Creative Industries 

Christoph Luetge, Technical University of Munich 

Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge; Alan Turing Institute  

Plenary Speakers 

Christopher Holmes, UK House of Lords 

Aaron Maniam, Government of Singapore 

Laura Rodríguez Mendaro, Government of Uruguay 

Junseok Hwang, Seoul National University 

Diego Kuonen, University of Geneva 

Julia Stoyanovich, New York University 

Nicholas Wright, UCL; Georgetown University  

Natasha McCarthy, The Royal Society, UK 

Lee Rowley MP, All Party Parliamentary Group on Data Analytics, UK 

Partners 

University College London & GovTech Lab 

Cambridge University Press 

Office for National Statistics 

University of Cambridge 

New York University –The Government Laboratory (GovLab) 

UK Science and Innovation Network  

The Alan Turing Institute 

Imperial College London  

University of Oxford -Oxford Internet Institute  

The London School of Economics and Political Science  

European Commission  

All Party Parliamentary Group on Data Analytics, UK Parliament 

The Royal Statistical Society