Lucia Velasco

Lead of AI Policy and Governance
United Nations

Biography

Lucia Velasco is a Spanish-Argentinian economist and researcher. She currently leads AI policy and governance at United Nations, supporting the Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on AI. Member of the EU High-Level expert group on the future of work (2018-2020). She serves as an independent advisor to the European Commission and the OECD, and co-chairs the Future of Work stream within the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI). Author of “Will You Be Replaced By an Algorithm?”, Lucia focuses on AI’s influence on the workforce, power dynamics and society.