Effy Vayena is Associate Vice President for Digital Transformation and Governance at ETH Zurich and professor of Bioethics. Her work focuses on how emerging technologies in biomedicine and data analytics including AI affect our society and what ethical safeguards we should put in place to avoid negative consequences. To address these questions, she uses different research methodologies. She is the founder and director of the Health Ethics and Policy Lab, an interdisciplinary research lab including philosophers, social scientists, lawyers, biologists and engineers.

Vayena has been appointed Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, where she was previously a Fellow. She has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and co-edited several books. Vayena is also an elected member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences.  She currently co-chairs the WHO’s expert advisory group on Artificial Intelligence health ethics and governance. Vayena frequently advises governments and public policy organizations on matters of digitization and ethics.