Rafael is a Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University and directs its Neurotechnology Center. He led a small group of scientists that inspired the US BRAIN Initiative, announced by President Barack Obama in 2013, and helped form the International Brain Initiative (IBI) in 2017. He also led the Morningside Group, a global consortium of interdisciplinary experts advocating for the ethical use of neurotechnology and artificial intelligence.

Jared is an international human rights lawyer and serves as outside General Counsel to the Neurorights Foundation. He is a managing director of Perseus Strategies, a public interest law firm, a special advisor on the Responsibility to Protect to the Organization of American States, and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.

Jamie is Co-founder and Board Member at the Neurorights Foundation. He is the managing partner of Everyone, Inc., a venture studio that creates and invests in companies that deploy technology and regenerative economic strategies to advance health, learning, and economic opportunity. He has been a founder and executive at companies including Current TV and RedPill VR, an investor at City Light Capital, and served in government as a Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He is on the Board of Governors of The Institute of New Economic Thinking, Shine Global, and is a senior advisor to The World Liberty Congress. He is a graduate of The University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Dr. Sean Pauzauskie is a hospital neurologist in the University of Colorado system, where he conducts clinical research employing neurotechnology, primarily for the optimization of epilepsy management. He is an active member of the American Academy of Neurology and The American Medical Association, and his research experience includes time at The National Institute of Mental Health, The Energy and Commerce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, and the Kaufmann Foundation for entrepreneurship.

Łukasz Szoszkiewicz is an Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, specializing in the intersection of international human rights law and emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence and neurotechnologies. He collaborates closely with the Global Campus of Human Rights, an EU-funded network of universities dedicated to human rights and democracy education.

Previously, Łukasz served as the Data Coordinator for the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, led by UN Independent Expert Manfred Nowak (2018-2019), a role he continued as part of the dissemination and implementation with the Global Campus. He currently co-leads the preparation of a handbook on cybercrime and human rights for the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights. Łukasz is a recipient of the Fulbright Senior Award for 2024-25, which he will undertake at the Neurotechnology Center at Columbia University.

Stephen Damianos is the Director of Technology and Human Rights at Perseus Strategies, LLC, and the Neurorights Foundation. He holds a PhD (DPhil) in International Development from the University of Oxford, where his doctoral research investigated digitally mediated human rights abuses with a focus on border technologies, corporate complicity, and novel forms of state violence. Prior to commencing his doctoral work, Stephen completed an MPhil in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge and a B.A in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Stephen has taught courses on human rights at the University of Oxford, contributed to mass atrocity prevention efforts in the United Kingdom, provided expert consultations to international actors on tech policy, and worked on high-level political prisoner cases advocating for the release of arbitrarily detained human rights defenders. Stephen is a Truman Scholar and a Rhodes Scholar.

Steve is an MBA Finance student at Fairfield University and a member of the Fairfield Investment Banking Society. He has experience in conducting due diligence targeting neurotechnology and healthcare-tech adjacent firms spanning private and public markets. Prior to beginning his MBA, Steve spent one year as a postgraduate researcher at Yale University, where he trained and refined AI models for the processing and analysis of massive bio-image datasets.

Steve is particularly interested in identifying relationships between industry-specific developments in product positioning and trends in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and private equity deals across the neurotech and med-tech industries.

Margot Hanley is a doctoral candidate in Information Science at Cornell Tech specializing in the ethical and policy implications of AI and commercial neurotechnology. Her dissertation explores how this rapidly advancing industry is poised to both enhance and challenge human autonomy, agency, and privacy.

In her work, Margot actively collaborates with industry experts to forge ethical, legal and regulatory guidelines and frameworks. In this way, she seeks to bridge the gap between technological innovation and ethical governance, ensuring that advancements in neurotechnology align with societal values and human flourishing.

Prior to pursuing her doctoral work, Margot spent five years in the technology department at Warby Parker, managing vendor relationships and the company-wide budget.

Margot holds a B.A. from Oberlin College in Economics and an M.A from Columbia University in Sociology. Alongside her studies, Margot is a research-based artist and has her artwork on display at Mmuseumm Mmuseumm in NYC.

Mariam Latif is a graduate student at Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, pursuing a Master’s in Computer Science. She earned her BA in Neuroscience from Princeton University, where she conducted independent research using eye-tracking and fMRI to study the effects of bidirectional Arabic-English reading on the brain's vision and attention networks. She is currently continuing this research at the Barnard Vision Lab. Mariam's interests lie at the intersection of neuroscience and technology, in addition to the ethical and legal implications of these rapidly evolving fields, especially regarding the right to mental privacy.

Aimee Johnston is an undergraduate studying computational neuroscience and philosophy at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA. She is particularly interested in the application of neural networks and other machine learning concepts to neural data, and currently works as a research assistant studying the theta rhythm in mice hippocampi using a deep neural network. Aimee is also drawn to issues in philosophy of technology and artificial intelligence.