As a global AI governance and privacy leader with 15+ years’ experience within the AI, data protection and technology industry, Christina Tueje is a strategic advisor with lead responsibility for policies and strategies that align AI, data value and emerging technologies with corporate and commercial objectives. She has an extensive track record across regulated sectors and FTSE100 companies with responsibility for implementation and oversight for GDPR and the AI Act.
Christina operates at the intersection of AI innovation, global governance and inclusive policy design -driving change with regulatory insight and ethical AI, data and technology leadership.
Currently, responsible for:
• Leading AI, data protection and technology risk management programmes – resulting in accelerated AI readiness and AI adoption and empowering boards with confidence.
• Spearheading ethical business innovation by applying the principles of equity, ethics and excellence at board level and corporate governance level.
• Policy engagement regarding ethical innovation and inclusive governance.
Over the years, Christina has liaised with regulators (the Care Quality Commission, the Gambling Commission and the Information Commissioners’ Office) to influence policy development and policy implementation from the grassroots level, across corporate enterprises and through to advisory boards. This enables her to align AI business strategies with commercial priorities by putting people at the centre of technology designs. As a CEO, visionary Founder, Chair and strategic lead for several esteemed professional communities, such leadership enables responsible AI implementation and cost-effective data management without over-complicated G.R.C (Governance, Risk and Compliance) strategies.
According to Christina, we need enriched and dis-aggregated data on the age, gender, ethnicity profile across early careers and senior leadership roles in relation to the UK privacy profession, and she is hugely passionate about empathetic and human-centred leadership as a vehicle to build inclusive organisational cultures.
In her opinion, we need improved metrics and key performance indicators on the recruitment and retention strategies to boost diversity in executive positions and on corporate boards. She also insists that we need much more diversity in the field of AI in terms of the topics that are discussed, the visibility of diverse professionals within the field of AI, and better representation at AI events in terms of the speakers and those who are invited to attend.
Christina is the founder of the UK’s first ever (and award-winning) Black Privacy Professionals Network (BPPN) which represents the largest gathering of Black AI and privacy professionals in Europe. She is also selected as a regular speaker at UK Parliament. In addition, she is a UN Women UK delegate, to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.
