Professor Jon Truby

Dr Jon Truby is a Visiting Associate Research Professor in AI Law at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore.  He is named by Stanford University as one of the World’s Top 2% Researchers, and is a highly cited thought leader and recognised policy influencer in AI Governance.  In 2024 he was an Academic Visitor at the Oxford University Institute for Ethics in AI and a Visiting Fellow researching AI law at Newcastle University law school.  As a lawyer and academic established in law, policy and social sciences, he has secured and delivered on over $6 million dollars in research grants in his field, resulting in high-impact outputs.  His research on emerging technology was presented at the United Nations General Assembly, and he has served a number of AI policy and advisory committees including the UNESCO Group of Friends on the Ethics of AI.  During 2010-2023 he was a Law Professor at Qatar University and Director of the University Legal Research Centre which delivered significant output in AI and emerging technologies research and policy.  The research centre produced high-impact frequent publications in leading journals and books, delivered a research roundtable series, continuing legal education courses, and secured and delivered major grants. 

His Ph.D was from Newcastle Law School at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (England), where he also previously received a First Class Honours Degree with prizes in his LL.B Degree.  After his postgraduate professional legal diploma (L.Dip) at the University of Law in York (England), he went on to practice law in a top ten global law firm in the City of London, before beginning his doctorate. 

While in Qatar he served as Founding Treasurer and Secretary of the ILA Qatar branch, was Founding Editor-in-Chief of the bilingual International Review of Law, launched the Middle East region’s first EU-funded Jean Monnet programme on EU law, advised on legal issues related to the 2022 FIFA World Cup, advised Qatar’s Committee for the COP UN Framework on Climate Change, and ran a national continuing legal education programme.  He served in the academic management team where he helped institutionalise college processes and develop first-generational legal education and research, established international partnerships, participated in a range of planning, strategy, accreditation, quality assurance and education initiatives and drove the delivery of numerous university achievements.  He been involved as a legal expert on a range of grants and projects, recently on a USAID AI Law research and capacity-building project in Uzbekistan.  He also served as an Advisor to the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report and Monitoring and Evaluation of Climate Change Education, DIFC’s Data Privacy Regulation 10 Advisory Committee, and is a representative to the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Dr Truby has an active research agenda in AI Law and Governance and welcomes contact related to research collaboration initiatives.