Eleonore Pauwels was the Research Fellow on Emerging Cybertechnologies at the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), focusing on Artificial Intelligence.

Prior to joining the UNU-CPR, Ms Pauwels was Director of the Anticipatory Intelligence (AI) Lab with the Science and Technology Innovation Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

A former official of the European Commission’s Directorate on Science, Economy and Society, Ms Pauwels is an international science policy expert, specialising in the governance and democratization of converging technologies.