Susan Leavy is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Communication at
University College Dublin with research projects in Artificial Intelligence, AI Ethics, and Tech
Policy. Through roles in AI ethics and policy, Susan works to bridge academic research with AI
governance initiatives. Her academic background spans philosophy, social science, and AI and
before moving to academia, she spent a decade in financial technology managing the
development of trading platforms for investment banking. Susan is affiliated with the Insight
Centre for Data Analytics and serves on the advisory board of the Centre for Digital Policy at
UCD. She is one of Ireland’s nominees to the OECD Global Partnership on AI (OECD-GPAI)
where she co-leads its social media governance project within the responsible AI working group.
Susan represented Ireland in a working group on the AI Act chaired by the EU AI Office and is
also currently a member of the AI Advisory Council of the Irish government