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Dr. Maria Lorena Flórez Rojas is a Colombian lawyer, currently working as an Assistant Professor of Law at Groningen University. Lorena has received her Ph.D. in the program of Individual Person and Legal Protections at the Scuola Superiore Sant`Anna (Italy). She is fascinated by the newest technologies and the way that they affect consumers and the market in general. She was previously an Assistant Professor of Private Law at Los Andes University in Bogotá (Colombia) where she taught in different courses from commercial law to law and technology. As one of the main projects, she develops the initiative called “The adoption of disruptive technologies (AI) in organizations through the creation and implementation of an ethical-legal toolkit”. In addition, she participated in the creation, design and implementation of the MOOC fAIr LAC on “How to make responsible use of artificial intelligence in the public sector”. Also, she participated in the development of the MOOC on Introduction to Artificial Intelligence of the Universidad de los Andes with Coursera, which is part of the creation of the Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence (MaIA) within which the design and creation of the module on Ethics in AI is directed. She teaches on the UNESCO AI and the Rule of Law MOOC for Judges and Judicial operators.