Speakers

Dr. Cynthia Liem

Dr. Cynthia C. S. Liem MMus is an Associate Professor in the Multimedia Computing Group of TU Delft, and a pianist of the Magma Duo. Her research interest is in trustworthy and responsible AI. After starting in music information retrieval, today, her research considers broader public-interest domains with high societal impact. She initiated and co-coordinated multiple European research projects on technological enrichment of digital musical heritage, and gained industrial experience at Bell Labs Netherlands, Philips Research and Google.

Cynthia received recognition through multiple awards (Lucent Global Science and Google Anita Borg Europe Memorial scholarships, Google European Doctoral Fellowship, finalist of the New Scientist Science Talent Award, Researcher-in-Residence at the National Library of The Netherlands), is a member of the Dutch national Young Academy, and still performs as a musician.

Cynthia is an active as a member of the Integrity Board of TU Delft, and from this role, she participated as a member of the pilot commission on cooperation with third parties in which the method of moral deliberation was applied.

Drs. Ruud Meij

Drs. Ruud Meij (1954) is a philosopher and co-founder Governance & Integrity. Until his retirement he lectrured for twenty years at the University of Humanistic Studies (Utrecht) on ethics, organisational learning, and public policy and is still contributing to the research group on empirical ethics. In Governance & Integrity Ruud is specialist on installing moral learning processes in organisations. Together with his colleagues he developed the methodology on moresprudence. Moresprudence has proven to be of value for a host of organisations Ruud has worked with, such as CITO, City Council of Lviv (Ukraine), Municipal Education (Antwerp), UWV (Amsterdam), and recently TU Delft on Knowledge Security. He is the main author of Knowledge Security as a Moral Challenge. Currently Ruud is also director of the Foundation for Justice, Integrity, and Anti-Corruption (FJIAC). His most recent publication is Ethiek voor Artsen Arbeid en Gezondheid (2023) (Ethics for doctors in Work and Health, together with André Weel and Kevin De Decker), which will be published by Bohn, Stafleu, Van Loghum.

Prof.dr. Ibo van de Poel

Prof. dr. Ibo van de Poel is Anthoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor in Ethics and Technology at the TU Delft. He is also the Integrity Officer of the TU Delft, and in this capacity, he was a member of the pilot commission that worked on moral deliberations in knowledge security at TU Delft. He is member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He has written, together with Lamber Royakkers, a widely used textbook on ethics, technology and engineering. His research focuses on value change and technology, ethics of disruptive technologies, ethics of technological risks, design for values, responsible innovation, and moral responsibility.

Peter Gill Msc.

Peter Gill Msc. is Policy Advisor China at TU Delft and has assisted Programme Director Peter Weijland in setting up the country agnostic Knowledge Security programme from the start of this programme.

Peter has a Mechanical Engineering and Business Economics background and speaks Chinese. He has organized various China and Knowledge Security symposia and participated as a member of the pilot commission on cooperation with third parties in which the method of moral deliberation was applied.

Dr. Peter Weijland

Dr. Peter Weijland is Knowledge Security Programme Director at TU Delft. He studied mathematics at TU/e and obtained his PhD at the UvA.
He worked at KPN for ten years, co-founded two start-up companies and in recent years worked as interim director at various institutions for vocational, professional and academic education.
He has been working at TU Delft since 2020