About us
OdiseIA is a non-profit, independent organisation that provides a platform for debate and action. It was founded in November 2019 by 10 individual professionals who collectively believed in the need for an ethical and responsible use of artificial intelligence. OdiseIA is supported by companies, universities, institutions, and individuals.
Meet the board, as well as some of our active members.
Board of Directors
Founder and President
Idoia Salazar
AI ETHICIST & AI Regulation,Sandbox | PhD | EU Parliament AI Observatory Expert | UNESCO’s Women4Ethical Expert | USP CEU University Professor |AI for Good | Author
Founder and CEO
Richard Benjamins
Co-founder OdiseIA | Former Chief Responsible AI Officer | Ethical
AI | AI for Good | EC and EU Parliament data AI Expert | AI Advisor to Vatican |
Board director CDP Europe | Author
Founder and Secretary
Jesus Avezuela
Lawyer of the Council of State, General Director of the Pablo VI Foundation.
Founder and Board Member
Monica Priefert
Xtart FPTech Innovation Project Director
Alfonso X the Wise University
Board Member
Rosa Romero Soler
AI & ZENIT | Education & OdiseIA | Public Policy AI | AI Governance | Responsible AI | Regulation AI | AI Researcher
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Founder & Treasurer
Ricardo Palomo
Dean and Full Professor of Finance at CEU San Pablo University. Digital Transformation and Organizational Disruption Advisor
Featured members
Frank Escandell
I help organizations adopt AI responsibly, aligning technological innovation with global ethical frameworks and institutional sustainability. I lead the shift toward technology with a human purpose.
Alberto González Pulido
I work at the crossroads of law, culture, and technology, leading OdiseIA’s AI and Culture group to advance a legal and ethical framework that safeguards human creativity in the digital age.
William Lúligo Monsalve
I am a specialist in automation and data governance, driving digital transformation in large organizations under an uncompromising ethical commitment to a more human and responsible AI
Borja Adsuara
Professor, Lawyer and Consultant, Expert in Law, Strategy and Digital Communication. Passionate about disclosure. “Internet Day” 2020 Award for the Best Communicator on Social Networks.
Coral Calero
Woman, mother, disseminator and researcher of the impact of software on the environment. Professor of computer languages and systems at UCLM
Fabián García Pastor
Senior Advisor for Innovation and Digital Transformation at ENLANZA | Professor of Entrepreneurship and Business Creation at the UPM
Patricia Llaque
Information and Communications Technologies professional, with experience in international companies and organizations. Works at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology
Monica Villas
Professor of exponential technologies
University of Deusto
Institutional members
Educational members
Collaborating organisations
Global AI Ethics Consortium
We collaborate with the “Global AI Ethics Consortium (GAIEC)” based at the University of Munich in Germany, which brings together world leaders in ethics and AI from institutes such as the Oxford Internet Institute, The Alan Turing Institute, The GovLab (US), the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, Imperial College, and the Singapore Management University.
Founders of the Editorial Board of Springer's “AI Ethics” journal
Idoia Salazar and Richard Benjamins are founding members of the editorial board of Springer's academic journal “AI Ethics.”
Blue Spain
We collaborate with “La España Azul” which seeks to generate an environmental impact through scientific research that will be carried out by collecting data and samples at geo-located points for subsequent analysis in the laboratory.
Alliance with TECNALIA
OdiseIA and TECNALIA Research & Innovation come together to promote the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence in companies.
The technological research and development center and OdiseIA will promote, through their collaboration, actions around ethics, responsibility and current legislation regarding this technology.
Diploma in artificial intelligence and its impact on law at the School of Legal Practice.
Course designed for professionals in the legal and other sectors, providing an in-depth understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) and its regulation in the European Union.
It covers technical aspects, use cases, ethical and legal regulation, and the impact of AI in various regulatory areas. In addition, the new European Regulation on Artificial Intelligence is analyzed, with a focus on digital literacy and adaptation to existing regulations.
Link to the course here.
