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Gabriel Lopez Serrano is Government Affairs Director for Microsoft. His career spans academia, start-ups and top tech companies. He started as General Counsel for a NY based start-up telecom Company (RSL Communications). He then joined AT&T Corp. as Regulatory Affairs manager, specialized in international transactions and regulation for the Americas. Afterwards he worked at Nokia Corp., as Senior Legal Counsel and Government affairs Director for western Europe based in Madrid. At Microsoft, Gabriel is the Government Affairs Director for Spain and collaborates with several private, public and academic institutions such as the Universitat de Valencia, National Trade Associations (Ametic), Think Tanks (Real Instituto Elcano and Fundación FIDE) and Bar Associations (Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid). He specializes in the design of national and international public policies relative to the responsible use of technology and has authored several articles regarding the use of Artificial Intelligence in the design of public policies, cybersecurity, transparency, accessibility and sustainability. Gabriel is a licensed attorney in Mexico and Spain, holds a bachelor’s degree and a Masters in Law from the Mexican Institute of Technology, has postgraduate studies at the Stanford University (California, USA) Instituto de Empresa (Madrid, Spain), European Academy of Law (Trier, Germany), Georgetown University (Washington, USA) and the Mexican Institute of Technology (Mexico City, Mexico). https://www.linkedin.com/in/glopezse/