Pam Dixon is the founder and executive director of the World Privacy Forum, a respected public interest research group. An author and researcher, she has written influential studies in the area of AI, identity, health, and complex data ecosystems and their governance for more than 20 years. Dixon has worked extensively on data governance and privacy across multiple jurisdictions, including the US, India, Africa, Asia, the EU, and additional jurisdictions. Dixon is co-chair of the UN Statistics Data Governance and Legal Frameworks working group, and is an expert advisor to WHO’s Health Data Collaborative, as well as a member of its Data Governance working group. At OECD, Dixon was part of the original core group that worked on the OECD Recommendation on AI. She continues to work with the OECD on AI and other topics related to governance. Dixon is a Principle Investigator at the NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), which includes WPF as a member. She teaches AI policy, privacy, and other topics in the development context for Carnegie Mellon University’s international program. Dixon has presented her work on complex data ecosystems and governance to the U.S. National Academies of Science, the Mongolian National Academies of Science, and to the Royal Academies of Science.  

Dixon has written and co-authored 9 books and numerous studies and articles. Dixon’s peer-reviewed field research and analysis relating to the Aadhaar ID system in India were cited in the landmark Indian Supreme Court decision, which led to significant improvements in the system and the law.   

Pam Dixon, A Failure to Do No Harm: India's Aadhaar biometric ID program and its inability to protect privacy in relation to measures in Europe and the U.S., Springer Nature, Health Technology. DOI 10.1007/s12553-017-0202-6. http://rdcu.be/tsWv. Open Access via Harvard- Based Technology Science: https://techscience.org/a/2017082901/.  

Additional work includes:  

Risky Analysis: A Global review of AI Governance Tools (World Privacy Forum 2023), The Scoring of America, (World Privacy Forum 2014), among extensive other work. Her paper on collective privacy in the indigenous context will be heard at the May 2024 Privacy Law Scholars Conference.