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Pam Dixon

Pam Dixon

Pam Dixon is the founder and executive director of the World Privacy Forum. For more than two decades, Dixon has conducted original research on the privacy and governance of complex data ecosystems at scale. Her work spans AI and machine learning governance, identity systems, and health data, and encompasses extensive field research and policy engagement across more than 85 jurisdictions, with sustained engagement in the US, India, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and the EU.

Dixon was among the original appointees to the OECD AI Expert Group that drafted the OECD AI Principles, and continues to serve as chair of the civil society advisory group for OECD’s Digital Policy Committee and its AI Governance Working Party. She is a member of the OECD-GPAI Steering Committee. She is a board advisor to the WHO’s Health Data Collaborative and a member of its Data Governance WG. She co-chaired the UN Statistical Commission’s Data Governance and Legal Frameworks WG, a task force focused on governance of National Statistical Offices. Dixon is a principal investigator at the NIST AI Consortium and an invited expert to ITU Study Group 17. In other work, she teaches courses in global AI policy, data governance, and identity ecosystems at Carnegie Mellon University.

Her peer-reviewed field research on India’s Aadhaar biometric identity system, A Failure to Do No Harm, conducted over four years and published in Springer Nature in 2017 – was cited twice in the Supreme Court of India’s landmark Aadhaar privacy decision. Her 2014 report The Scoring of America, co-authored with Robert Gellman, was among the first major analyses of predictive analytics and machine learning through a privacy and governance lens. In 2023, she co-authored Risky Analysis, the first comprehensive global review and index of AI governance tools. In 2025, she completed a comprehensive global comparative study of national AI strategies, now visualized online.

Dixon’s current research addresses the governance of advanced AI systems. Her current theoretical work has been presented at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference (2024, 2026) and to European Data Protection Authorities at their Spring Conference (2025). This work has now been peer reviewed and accepted for publication, with the full articulation of this work forthcoming in 2026. She is the author of ten books and is the recipient of the EFF Pioneer Award for groundbreaking research on privacy and data ecosystems.

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9 July 2026
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09:00 - 12:15
EST - New York
CST - Beijing
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AWST - Perth, Australia
Designing the trust management for Agentic AI
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