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ABOUT ME
Short Biography
Dr. Maksim Karliuk (MSc, LLM and PhD) has more than ten years of experience at the intersection of law, philosophy and public policy across international organisations, governments and academia. Currently, he is a policy fellow at the UCL's Centre for Law, Economics and Society and associate at the futures and policy consultancy ForgeFront. He previously advised the European Commission, worked as a principal consultant at UNESCO, taught at Science Po, and had several other academic and policy engagements around the world. In 2025 he was endorsed as a Global Talent by the British Academy and in 2021 he was included in the Santander-CIDOB 35 under 35 list of potential and consolidated minds.
Santander-CIDOB 35 under 35 List recognizes the work of 35 potential and consolidated minds of 35 or less years of age. CIDOB is Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, a research center that has been named as one of the top Think Tanks to Watch in 2021 by the Global Go To Think Tank Index Report just behind the Washington, D.C.-based Hoover Institution and Brookings Institution. Santander is one of the largest banking institutions in the world.
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I have 10+ years of working experience at the intersection of law, policy, and philosophy, focusing on the governance of emerging technologies. Currently, I collaborate on digital regulation with the Centre for Law, Economics and Society at the University College London (UCL). I am also an associate at the futures and policy consultancy ForgeFront, providing foresight advisory to governments on emerging technology policy.
Previously I provided expert guidance to the European Commission in developing the first General-Purpose AI Code of Practice detailing the EU AI Act rules. I also worked at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), where I supported the development of the Recommendation on the Ethics of AI from inception to adoption by 193 state - the first global normative instrument in this field - and represented UNESCO in a European Commission expert group. I also worked at the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) focusing on the rule of law to advance peace and sustainable development.
I held a number of academic and research positions, most recently teaching at Sciences Po in Paris. I have been doing research on law and development and have a large track record researching regional integration, based on which I have published a book with Cambridge University Press in 2023.
I have a deep interest in normative ethics, and I am the founder and convenor of the UNESCO Café-philo on Ethics. I am a member of the Chatham House, Royal Institute of Philosophy, Moral Sciences Club of the University of Cambridge, Italian Institute of Classical Studies, Advisory Council of the Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law, as well as several working and discussion groups.
I currently reside in London, working globally. Undeterred by things like citizenship, I also lived in other places, including Rome, Paris, Washington, D.C., Moscow, Berlin and the beautiful city of Bruges in Belgium.
My native language is Belarusian. I also speak fluently Russian and English, and less fluently French, Italian and Ukrainian. At various times I have also studied Latin, Greek, Ancient Greek and Korean.
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