Uzma Chaudhry is an associate in the Data Privacy, Cybersecurity & Digital Assets Practice. She combines legal expertise, regulatory insight, and hands-on policy experience with a strong technical understanding of emerging technologies, to deliver practical advice to clients navigating the evolving landscape of AI and data laws.
Prior to joining the firm, Uzma worked at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and AI, where she led work on AI governance, copyright and data protection. She also contributed to the AI Standards Hub – a key initiative under the UK’s National AI Strategy 2021. She regularly collaborated with regulators, government teams (particularly the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology) and technical standards bodies, gaining direct insight into the frameworks actively shaping AI regulation in the UK and beyond.
Before this, Uzma served as the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ (IAPP) inaugural AI governance research fellow, where she focused on US and EU AI policy, and developed foundational guidance on enterprise AI governance now relied upon by AI governance professionals worldwide. She began her legal career as an intellectual property lawyer in Pakistan. She later went on to found the Institute for Responsible AI & Human Rights in 2021 – Pakistan’s very first institute dedicated to AI policy research.
Uzma is a certified information privacy professional/Europe (CIPP/E). She is particularly valued for her ability to bridge technical, policy and legal perspectives, drawing on her experience working with governments, enabling AI policy, and engaging with the international AI standards and governance ecosystem to help clients stay ahead in a rapidly evolving regulatory environment.
Member, IAPP
Publications
Author, “A Decade of AI: Global Trajectories and Pakistan’s Path”, In N. U. Chaudhary & S. Sheikh (Eds.), Tracing Transformations in Law, 136., 2026.
Lead author, “Creative Grey Zones: Copyright in the Age of Hybridity”, The Alan Turing Institute, 2025.
Co-author, “AI governance around the world: Canada”, The Alan Turing Institute, 2025.
Co-author, “Safety Frameworks and Standards: A comparative analysis to advance risk management of frontier AI” (research memo), Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, University of Oxford, October 2025.
Lead author, “AI Governance in Practice Report 2024”, IAPP, 2024.
Author, “Algorithmic decision-making in Pakistan: A challenge to right to equality and nondiscrimination”, Institute for Responsible AI & Human Rights at the Centre for Human Rights, 2021.
Co-author, “AI and digital governance: Exploring platform liability laws in the EU”, IAPP, 25 September 2024.
Author, “AI and digital governance: Platform liability laws in the US”, IAPP, 18 September 2024.
Author, “AI and digital governance: Exploring platform liability”, IAPP, 17 July 2024.
Co-author, “Top 10 operational impacts of the EU AI Act – Obligations for general-purpose AI models”, IAPP, 28 August 2024.
Co-author, “Top 10 operational impacts of the EU AI Act – Understanding and assessing risk”, IAPP, 24 July 2024.
Author, “AI governance: What is being governed?” IAPP, 25 October
Speaking Engagments
2026
Guest speaker, “Building Trust in AI, What to Look For”, ABBY AI Pulse Podcast, London, March 2026.
2025
Guest speaker, “Can AI Truly be Ethical”, MeVitae, Fairness Network, London, June 2025.
Lead instructor, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Turing AI Knowledge and Capacity Building Programme, Hanoi, Vietnam, October 2025.
Guest speaker, “Governance of foundation models through technical standards”, AI Standards Hub Regulators Forum, The Alan Turing Institute, London, July 2025.
Guest speaker, “Governance of foundation models through technical standards”, UK Science and Technology Network, Tallinn, Estonia, April 2025.
Panel chair, “Measuring and managing the environmental impact of foundation models”, AI Standards Hub Global Summit, London, March 2025.
Project lead, AI Standards Hub, Paris AI Action Summit, Paris, February 2025.
2024
Panellist, “AI Governance in Practice”, IAPP AI Governance Global Conference, Brussels, June 2024.
Facilitator, “EU AI Act Comprehensive”, IAPP Global Privacy Summit, Washington DC, April 2024.
2023
Moderator, Q&A, AI Governance Professionals training, IAPP AI Governance Global Conference, Boston, October 2023.
2021
Guest speaker, “Celebrating Pakistani Women in AI”, National University of Sciences & Technology, Islamabad, August 2021.
Panellist, “Algorithmic decision-making in Pakistan”, Centre for Human Rights, virtual, June 2021.