Dessislava Sergueeva Fessenko

Dessislava is a lecturer, researcher, attorney and bioethicist specializing in law, policy and ethics of AI, algorithms and data. She teaches courses in ethics of Big Data and AI, as well as in regulation and ethics-based governance of AI, at the Institute of Continuing Education at the University of Cambridge. She has also developed courses in data ethics in healthcare and in ethics of AI and digital privacy in healthcare at Harvard Medical School's Center for Bioethics. 

Dessislava also serves as an independent expert at the Support Pool of Experts of the European Data Protection Board and at the Plenary supporting the European Union AI Office in drawing up the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice under the EU AI Act. She has 20 years of practical legal experience (including in management roles) guiding responsible innovation and compliance with the European Union competition, data protection and technology regulations, which provides an advantage in high-quality teaching, innovative and interdisciplinary program development, novel and cross-sectional research, policy studies, collaborations, outreach and applied work. Dessislava holds a Master of Science in Bioethics degree from Harvard Medical School, as well as Master of Law degrees from the University fro National and World Economy (with distinction) and the University of Amsterdam.  

Dessislava's teaching integrates narrative, interdisciplinary and practice-oriented approaches and hones the problem-solving capabilities of students.