Kathrin Gardhouse is an AI Governance Senior Associate at The Future Society, working with the EU and International AI Governance teams. She brings legal and AI governance expertise to advise on the implementation of the EU AI Act, particularly with regards to general-purpose AI. She was previously at The Future Society as a Visiting Research Fellow from the Talos Network, and she has recently completed a Summer Fellowship at the Institute for Law & AI (LawAI), focusing on the AI Office’s enforcement powers and AI agent governance.

Kathrin also serves as the Policy Lead and Board Member at AI Governance and Safety Canada, where she consults provincial and federal governments on AI regulation and teaches a course on Canadian AI policy. Her prior experience includes working as a legal research associate, privacy evangelist, data protection officer, and data and AI governance consultant for tech start-ups in Canada. 

Kathrin holds a philosophy PhD from McMaster University, a law degree from the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Germany and a Global Professional LLM from the University of Toronto. She is a Certified Information Protection Professional (Canada) and an AI Governance Professional, certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). She is currently based in Toronto and is fluent in German.