Dr. Jakob Mökander

Jakob is the Director of Science & Technology Policy at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) and an International Fellow at Yale University’s Digital Ethics Center (DEC). Jakob has published extensively in the fields of tech policy, AI governance, and AI auditing. His work has been featured in journals like Nature Machine Intelligence, Science and Engineering Ethics, and Minds and Machines.

Jakob holds a PhD from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII). Prior to joining TBI, he was a visiting scholar at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), and a research fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI). Outside academia, Jakob has worked as a Specialist Consultant working within McKinsey & Company’s Risk and Resilience practice, as well as a Trade and Investment Advisor at the Embassy of Sweden in New Delhi, India.