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AI for a Fair, Just, and Equitable World

Ángeles Manjarrés is currently a Lecturer with
the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Universidad
Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid,
Spain, the Spanish national distance-learning
university. Her research is focused on the field of
ontologies and educational recommender systems,
in e-learning and educational robotics. She has
participated in national, European, and international
research projects, and in educational innovation
projects integrating service-learning methodology
into artificial intelligence studies.
Ms. Manjarres is a member of the UNED ServiceLearning Department Management Team, the UNED
Research Ethics Committee, and the Education
for Development Group EDETIC, affiliated to the
Innovation and Technology for Development Center,
Technical University of Madrid, Madrid.

David Pastor-Escuredo received the Ph.D.
degree in artificial intelligence and complex systems
from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM),
Madrid, Spain, in 2015.
He was a pioneer collaborator of several United
Nations agencies (UNGP, WFP, and UNHCR) in
AI and Data for Sustainable Development Goals.
He has led digital innovation projects at Centro
de Innovación en Tecnología para el Desarrollo
de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (itdUPM)
managing partnerships with MIT research centers
and labs. He is currently a Consultant for UNICEF.
He works in the AI for Healthcare within the program
Catalyst Europe EIT Health-MIT.
Dr. Pastor-Escuredo is a member of the Ethics
and Digital Revolution Group of itdUPM and " El Dia
Despues " cities community. He was awarded by EIT
Health as the Best Catalyst Project 2020.

Kings College, University of London, London, U.K.,
in 1987, the second M.Sc. degree in computing from
Imperial College, University of London, London, in
1988, and the Ph.D. degree from the Université de
Rennes, Rennes, France, in 2003.
He was a researcher in public and private sectors
in France and Spain for the last 30 years. He is
currently a Lecturer with the Computing Faculty,
Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
His research interests focus on formal methods and
testing, as well as on ICT4D.

Jesús Salgado Criado received the Electronic
Engineer degree from Universidad Pontificia
Comillas, Madrid, Spain, in 1988 and the M.B.A.
degree from the IESE Business School, Barcelona,
Spain, in 1996.
He has worked as the project director for various
technology organisations and has co-founded
several initiatives in the IT space. He is currently an
Associate Professor with the Department of Business
Administration, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,
Madrid. His current research focuses on algorithm
auditability and societal risk management and
regulation of AI applications.
Txetxu Ausín is currently a tenured Scientist at
the Institute of Philosophy, CSIC (Spanish National
Research Council), Madrid, Spain, and the Director of
the Applied Ethics Group (GEA). He is also an Invited
Professor with several universities and a Researcher
with the Institute for Democratic Governance,
GLOBERNANCE, Donostia, Spain. His research
areas include public ethics, bioethics, human rights,
and philosophy of disruptive technologies.

Simon Pickin received the B.Sc. degree in
mathematics from the University of Sussex, Brighton,
U.K., in 1982, the CASM (Cambridge Part III) degree
in mathematics from the University of Cambridge,
Cambridge, U.K., in 1986, the M.Sc. degree from

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to Celia Fernández-Aller, ETSISI, 28031 Madrid, Spain;
mariacelia.fernandez@upm.es.

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