The Brussels Privacy Hub is proud to contribute to CERRE’s Global Governance for the Digital Ecosystems project, through the research leadership of its Co-Director Prof. Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon and Prof. Gianclaudio Malgieri. The Hub’s work focuses on two critical areas: cross-border data flows and Artificial Intelligence governance, providing insights and practical recommendations for navigating the complex regulatory landscape of digital technologies.

Prof. Stalla-Bourdillon’s research, published in Global Governance of Cross-Border Data Flows: Operationalising Practical Solutions, aims to provide critical guidance on how to ensure a more cohesive and collaborative approach to data governance, offering practical recommendations for navigating global cross-border data transfer challenges, and arguing for the importance of trustworthiness as a more objective metric than trust-promoting regulatory convergence. The research emphasises a tiered assurance level framework to safeguard privacy and data protection while accounting for AI’s growing influence. Through concrete case studies, developed in collaboration with Pablo Trigo Kramcsák, Smriti Parsheera and Yueming Zhang, the final report unravels key drivers of how countries such as Brazil, India, and China intend to preserve their domestic policy spaces and leverage the multilateral space. 

Prof. Malgieri’s contributions, including Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence, address the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem, advocating for a human-centric and risk-based approach to AI training and deployment. His research proposes the principle of “AI Adequacy” to guide transparent, ethical, and socially responsible AI governance worldwide, providing policymakers with frameworks to balance innovation and accountability.