Dr Stephanie Hare
Every senior leader has been told that technology ethics matters. Very few have been given a way to make ethics decisions that also survive a board review or a regulator’s letter. In AI, surveillance, biometrics and the platforms now embedded in every function of the business, the question is no longer whether to worry about ethics, it is how to make defensible choices at the speed the technology is moving, with the operating, legal and reputational consequences those choices carry.
Dr Stephanie Hare is a researcher, author of Technology Is Not Neutral and co-presenter of the BBC programme Artificial Intelligence: Decoded who helps leaders turn technology ethics from a principle into a decision their board, regulator and customers will accept.
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Why organisations work with Dr Stephanie Hare
- Technology Is Not Neutral, named a Financial Times Best Technology Book of summer 2022, gives her a published framework her audiences can read before and after the session, which lifts her work out of conference-keynote territory.
- Her career covers the three sides of technology decision-making that most speakers can only address from one: operator (Accenture, Palantir), analyst (Oxford Analytica, Accenture Research) and researcher (LSE PhD, St Antony’s Oxford). That combination is unusually hard to replicate.
- She is a recognised BBC contributor, selected for the BBC Expert Women programme, with regular appearances on BBC World Television and BBC World Service, which makes her a known quantity to executive audiences used to seeing her comment on the same issues they are deciding.
- Her published writing in the Financial Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Harvard Business Review and WIRED gives clients a body of work they can share internally when briefing a session.
- The institutional client list, including KPMG, IKEA, LEGO, BAE Systems, CERN, the Royal Society and the Alan Turing Institute, signals that she operates comfortably across corporate, scientific and public-sector audiences.
Biography highlights
- Author of Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics (London Publishing Partnership), FT Best Technology Books of summer 2022
- Co-presenter of Artificial Intelligence: Decoded on BBC television and contributor to the BBC World Service programme Business Matters
- Writing in the Financial Times, The Washington Post, the Guardian/Observer, Harvard Business Review, WIRED and Computer Weekly; selected for the BBC Expert Women programme and the Foreign Policy Interrupted fellowship
- PhD and MSc from the London School of Economics; BA University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; study at the Sorbonne
- Alistair Horne Visiting Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford
- Former Principal Director at Accenture Research; strategist at Palantir; senior Western Europe analyst at Oxford Analytica
Biography
Technology ethics is one of the few senior-leadership topics where the question is harder than the answer sounds, and Stephanie Hare has spent her career working on that gap. Technology Is Not Neutral, her book published by London Publishing Partnership, was named a Financial Times Best Technology Book of summer 2022 and has become a widely referenced practitioner text on how to think about the ethical consequences of AI, biometrics, surveillance and the platforms embedded in modern business operations.
Her route to the argument is unusual. She holds a PhD and MSc from the London School of Economics, a BA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a year at the Sorbonne, and held the Alistair Horne Visiting Fellowship at St Antony’s College, Oxford. Her operator record covers Accenture, Palantir and Oxford Analytica, where she was a senior Western Europe analyst, before her current position as an independent researcher and broadcaster. That combination, academic, operator, analyst, gives her the register of each of the three rooms a technology ethics conversation usually has to run through.
The media presence is specific. She is a regular contributor to BBC World Television and BBC World Service, was selected for the BBC Expert Women programme and for the Foreign Policy Interrupted fellowship. Her bylines run across the Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, the Observer, Harvard Business Review and WIRED, which means corporate audiences often recognise the voice before they meet her.
The advisory and speaking work sits across the organisations her argument is most relevant to: KPMG, IKEA, LEGO, BAE Systems, CERN, the Royal Society and the Alan Turing Institute. For boards, chief AI officers, chief technology officers and general counsel working through AI governance, biometric deployment and data strategy, Hare is one of the few commentators who can hold the ethics, the technology and the political risk in the same session.
Key speaking topics
- Technology ethics and responsible AI
- AI governance and regulation
- Biometrics, surveillance and data strategy
- Political risk in technology and digital infrastructure
- Cybersecurity and emerging technology
- Climate action and the ethics of technology
Ideal for
- Boards, chief AI officers and CTOs making defensible decisions on AI, biometrics and data
- General counsel, chief risk officers and compliance leaders facing accelerating AI and technology regulation
- Technology and advisory firms looking for a senior externally credible voice on ethics and governance
- Scientific institutions, research organisations and public-sector bodies running complex technology-ethics briefs
Audience outcomes
- A working framework, drawn from Technology Is Not Neutral, for making and defending technology-ethics decisions
- A clearer view of where AI regulation and political risk are moving and how that should shape operating choices
- Reference material from the book and Hare’s published writing for teams to use internally after the session
- Cross-sector case examples drawn from her consulting work with KPMG, IKEA, LEGO, BAE Systems and the Alan Turing Institute