Kathrin Gardhouse is an AI Governance Research Fellow in the EU team of The Future Society. The focus of her work lies on general-purpose AI policy and advocacy to shape and implement strong regulation to protect society from AI-related systemic risks. She also volunteers as the Policy Lead at AI Governance and Safety Canada where she contributes to public consultation responses on federal and provincial AI governance, develops and teaches a course on Canadian AI policy, and briefs the government on risks from advanced AI. Kathrin is a Germany- and Ontario-trained lawyer and certified AI governance and privacy professional. She previously served as the VP AI and Data Governance at Etika Privacy, the data protection officer at PrivateAI, and the senior manager for privacy risk and data governance at a Toronto bank. She is also completing a philosophy PhD that investigates the social-philosophical underpinning of AI agency for liability purposes.