DfP’26 Conference Leadership:

• Manuel Portela, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
• Carlos (Chato) Castillo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
• Vladimir Estivill-Castro, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
• Migle Laukyte, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
• Antoni Rubi-Puig, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Data for Policy Conference General Chairs:

• Zeynep Engin, Founding Director & Chair, Data for Policy CIC
• Jon Crowcroft, Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Lab, at the University of Cambridge, and researcher-at-large at the Alan Turing Institute
• Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer at the GovLab, NYU

 Conference Programme Committee:

• Susan Ariel Aaronson, George Washington University, USA
• Fola Adeleke, The Global Center on AI Governance, South Africa 
• Rossella Arcucci, Imperial College London, UK
• Omar Isaac Asensio, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• He Bin, Tongji University, China
• Tuba Bircan, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
• Ana Brandusescu, McGill University, Canada
• Ana Maria Bustamante Duarte, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia
• Igor Calzada, University of the Basque Country, Spain
• Natalia Carfi, Open Data Charter, Argentina
• Lawrence Cheung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong 
• Joep Crompvoets, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Ebinezer Florano, The University of the Philippines, The Philippines
• Sarah Giest, Leiden University, The Netherlands
• Yang Han, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong
• Regina Hučková, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia
• Ahmed Dooguy Kora, L’Ecole Supérieure Multinationale des Télécommunications, Senegal 
• Jacqueline C.K. Lam, University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong
• Victor OK Li,  The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong
• Canhui Liu, University College London, UK 
• Justin Longo, University of Regina, Canada
• Claudia Abreu Lopes, United Nations University, Malaysia
• Aretha Mare, Smart Africa, Rwanda
• Jock Martin,The European Environment Agency, Denmark
• Gianluca Misuraca, AI4Gov, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Francesco Mureddu, The Lisbon Council, Belgium
• Ines Neves, Universidade de Porto, Portugal
• David, Love Opeyemi, University of Johannesburg, South Africa 
• Marta Poblet, RMIT University; The Data Tank, Belgium
• Paula Rodriguez Müller, European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), Belgium
• Vania Sena, The University of Sheffield, UK
• Sara Thabit, European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), Italy
• Evren Tok, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
• Gaby Umbach, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Italy
• Genoveva Vargas-Solar, CNRS, France-Mexico
• Masaru Yarime, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Conference Management Team:

• Andrew Hyde, Cambridge University Press, UK
• Jenny Bright, Cambridge University Press, UK
• Pinar Ozgen, Data for Policy CIC, UK
• Maria Fernandez-Aramburu, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Data for Policy conference committees will also receive dedicated support from our standing advisory and editorial committees. The full list of members can be found on this page.