JOSÉ-MIGUEL BELLO Y VILLARINO
Email
jbel6800@sydney.edu.au
Jose-Miguel Bello y Villarino is a Research Fellow at the University of Sydney node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S).
Dr Bello y Villarino is a member of the Diplomatic Corps of Spain (on leave) and previously worked in different capacities for the European Union. His current research focuses on regulatory approaches to ADM and Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially on how to deal with risks derived from the operation of AI systems from a comparative approach.
In 2023 he received the Rita and John Cornforth Medal for Research Excellence at the University of Sydney, for outstanding achievement in research; in 2022 the Scotiabank Global AI + Regulation Emerging Scholar Award (joint award) and in 2021 he was a Fulbright-Schuman scholar at the Harvard Law School.
His broader academic work has spanned many areas of international law and legal theory, taking an interdisciplinary lens to issues at the intersection between the public and private spheres, always with a focus on finding feasible solutions to existing legal problems, based on his experience in the international arena.
Recent publications cover issues as diverse as human rights and artificial intelligence, women in anticorruption treaties, standardisation of AI, golden passports, international trade agreements, economic analysis of human rights, investor-state disputes, corruption-related data, regulatory competition, space research and gender and the law.
He is a mentor of the Sydney Innovation Programme and occasionally teaches subjects with international components. He has previously worked for the Commission and the Council of the EU and served in diplomatic postings in Eastern Europe, West Africa, South-East Asia and Central America and at the HQs in Madrid.
