Katharina Frey

Executive Director International Computation and AI Network (ICAIN), ETH Zurich

Katharina Frey, an experienced Swiss diplomat, currently serving as Deputy Head of the Division for Digital Foreign Policy in the Swiss Foreign Ministry, a new division she helped to establish. At the forefront of digital diplomacy, Katharina directs major projects on Switzerland as a digital host state and in particular one on cybersecurity for the International Geneva. Most recently she initiated and co-leads together with ETH Zurich, an initiative that brings together academia, industry and diplomacy to jointly find concrete solutions to current challenges of AI. She possesses an academic backbone formed by Law degrees from the Universities of Zurich and Geneva, a Master's in Public Administration from the London School of Economics, and supplemental courses on novel technologies, including AI via Coursera.

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