Professor Ann Kristin Glenster is the founder of LOGOS, a mission-driven research initiative for a human epistemic future at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge.

She is also Executive Director of the Glenlead Centre, a consortium of independent researchers who aim to bridge the gap between high-quality research and policy. She is former Co/Deputy Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, and former Strategic Legal Consultant to the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE).

Professor Glenster was a Technology and Human Rights Fellow (2024-2025) at the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School for Government. She is an affiliate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) at the University of Cambridge since 2014.

A respected legal scholar, Professor Glenster leads on data protection, privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, and data and AI regulation and governance. She holds a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge and conducted doctoral research at the Harvard Law School. She has taught at London School of Economics, Brown University, Harvard University, University of Oxford, and University of Cambridge. Her scholarly publications have been cited by the Advocate General in the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).

She also regularly advises on policy and has authored more than twenty-five policy publications on topics ranging from AI and copyright to deceptive design. Professor Glenster has contributed expertise to the European Commission; European Parliament; UK legislators, government departments and regulators; US Trade Federal Commission (FTC); US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB); and several UN organisations.

In May 2023 she led a transatlantic workshop on the regulation of deceptive design at the Nobel Prize Summit in Washington D.C. She is a member of Chatham House and the British Film and Television Academy (BAFTA). She has been a judge of the Monroe E Price Media Law Moot Competition at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford.

A sought-after keynote speaker, Professor Glenster has presented at numerous events, including the Athens Democracy Forum, sponsored by the New York Times. Her research has been featured and informed stories in the Financial Times, The Guardian, Politico, The Sunday Times, the Times, BBC, and Reuters.

Her current research focuses on epistemic rights and the regulation of neurotechnologies, legal innovation in relation to AI and the creative industries, and the use of AI in education and research.