Agenda

Caitlin Kraft-Buchman is CEO/Founder Women at the Table, a gender equality & systems change think tank based in Switzerland. She is Co-Founder of <A+> Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms, a multidisciplinary coalition of academics, activists, technologists prototyping the future of artificial intelligence which she co-leads with Code for Africa.

Caitlin was co-chair of the 2023 Expert Group for CSW67, the UN Commission on the Status of Women with its first ever priority theme of Technology & Innovation, and a member of the CSW70 Expert Group in 2026 as author of Judicial Algorithms & Gender Bias. She also founded and leads the  initiative, a global community of 950+ member researchers from 57 countries working for a human rights-based approach to AI.

Caitlin is co-founder of the International Gender Champions, with hubs in Geneva, New York, Vienna, Nairobi, The Hague & Paris bringing together female & male heads of organizations, including the UN Secretary-General, to break down gender barriers, and serves on the IGC Global Board. She co-leads the IGC Impact Group on Digital and New Emerging Technologies with Doreen Bogdan Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union. She was a member of the Network of Experts for the UN Secretary General’s AI Advisory Body + member of the Gender & AI Advisory Group for the AI Summit Paris 2025. She co-chairs the Gender Advisory Board for the UN Commission on Science & Technology for Development (CSTD), is one of Team of Specialists for Gender Responsive Standards for the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), is a member of UNESCO’s WomenForEthicalAI working group, one of UNESCO’s AI Experts Without Borders, and newly admitted to Council of Europe' CDNEt Committee on Digital & New Emerging Technologies.

Ms. Lara Mohammad ElKhateeb was appointed Chairperson of the Board of Commissioners at the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) by a decision of the Council of Ministers on 21 September 2025.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Jordan and a Master’s degree in International Business Law. Ms. ElKhateeb brings extensive experience in legal and regulatory affairs, government relations, policy development, and public–private partnerships. She has served as Chief Executive Officer for Legal, Regulatory, and Government Affairs at Umniah Mobile Company, providing strategic guidance on regulatory compliance, licensing, data protection, and corporate governance.

She has also served as a Board Member of the Jordanian Student Support Fund under the Ministry of Education.

A strong advocate for women’s economic and political empowerment, Ms. ElKhateeb contributes actively through her roles on the boards of several profit and non-profit organizations. She currently serves as a member of the Jordanian Women’s Committees Union and as a Board Member of “Little Curious Minds,” an initiative under Save the Children, demonstrating her commitment to community development and early childhood education.

Christopher S. Yoo is the Imasogie Professor in Law & Technology, Professor of Communication, Professor of Computer & Information Science; the Founding Director of the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition; and the Faculty Co-Director of the Penn Center of Media, Technology & Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania.  He is the author of 4 books and over 130 other scholarly works and has taught at over a dozen universities around the world.  

Professor Yoo received his A.B. from Harvard University, his M.B.A. from UCLA, and his J.D. from Northwestern University.  Before entering the academy, Professor Yoo clerked for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.  He also practiced law with the D.C. firm of Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells) under the supervision of now-Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts, Jr.  He previously taught at the Vanderbilt Law School, where founded the Technology and Entertainment Law Program.

He is frequently called to testify before the U.S. Congress, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, foreign governments, and international organizations. He has served as a member of the Federal Communication Commission’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee, a Consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States, a member of the Board of Advisors for the American Law Institute’s (ALI’s) Project on Principles of Law for Data Privacy and the Restatement of Principles for a Data Economy (joint with the European Law Institute), and as a Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network. He is currently serving as co-Chair of the International Telecommunication Union’s inaugural Academic Advisory Body and as an Advisor to the ALI’s new project on Principles of the Law, Civil Liability for Artificial Intelligence (AI).  He is also co-leading an international initiative to create technically implementable AI standards.

Jhalak M. Kakkar is Executive Director at the Centre for Communication Governance (CCG), National Law University Delhi, a research centre that works on information law and policy issues. CCG undertakes academic research, policy input and capacity building across privacy and data governance, platform governance, regulation of emerging technology and cybersecurity. Jhalak works extensively on AI regulation and data governance, working on policy input to at the domestic level and to international organisations like OHCHR and GPAI. She co-leads the Multistakeholder Approaches to Participation in AI Governance (MAP – AI) that is an initiative led by CCG and the Global Network Initiative. MAP AI seeks to elevate Global Majority perspectives on AI governance at various key forums and is a community more than 350 academics and CSOs from around the globe. Jhalak has been an Expert member of the Working Group on Data Governance of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), an expert member of the United Nations Broadband Commission Working Group on AI Capacity Building and an expert on the SMU - Microsoft Asian Dialogue on AI Governance. She is on Spotify’s Global Safety Advisory Council and on the Board of the Global Network Initiative, a global organization that serves as multistakeholder platform for information and communications technology (ICT) companies, civil society organizations, academics, and investor groups. Jhalak has taught at various forums, summer schools and undertaken capacity building workshops around AI including the UNESCO MOOC on AI and Rule of Law for judges.She has been Programme Manager for the Technology and Society team at CCG. Prior to CCG, she has been a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School and a Programme Manager at PRS Legislative Research. Jhalak has graduated with an LLM from Harvard Law School on a Fulbright-Nehru Masters Fellowship. She has a five-year integrated social science and law degree from the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, India.