Founder and executive director of AlgorithmWatch

Matthias Spielkamp is founder and executive director of AlgorithmWatch, a non-profit advocacy and research organisation focused on consequences of algorithmic decision-making (ADM) on societies. AlgorithmWatch has been awarded the Theodor Heuss Medal 2018 and was nominated for a Grimme Online award in 2019, Germany’s premier award for online journalism. Matthias testified before committees of the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, and the German Bundestag. He is a member of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) and the editor of the Automating Society Reports.