Until April 2023, the Kirsten Rulf served as the Head of Unit for Digital Policy at the Federal Chancellery of Germany, advising former Chancellor Angela Merkel and current Chancellor Olaf Scholz on emerging technologies like AI, data governance, and quantum computing. They co-founded Harvard's Autonomous Vehicles Initiative, taught an AI and compliance course at Harvard Law School, and hold degrees from Harvard and Oxford. They were a World Fellow at Yale University in 2022 and currently, as a UC Berkeley Tech Policy Fellow, they research data governance's economic potential within European, U.S., and Chinese regulations. They also had a notable career as a journalist for Tagesschau, reporting on technology and its business impact worldwide.