Patricia Shaw LLB(Hons), LLM, FRSA, MIEEE, is CEO of Beyond Reach Consulting Limited based in the UK and advises
globally on Responsible AI (AI/data ethics, policy, law, and governance), and Corporate Digital Responsibility.
Patricia has over 20 years' experience as a lawyer in data, technology and regulatory/government affairs and is a
registered Solicitor in England and Wales, and the Republic of Ireland. She has authored and edited several works on
law and regulation, policy, ethics, and AI. She has a particular interest in algorithmic bias, autonomous decision making
in high impact AI systems, privacy, and fairness, and how AI impacts on gender, religion, and belief. Her focus has
predominately been areas where there is high risk impact on society such as in Finance, Health, and Education
(including the impact on the future of work).
Trish is an expert advisor to the Council of Europe on Generative AI and the impacts of Freedom of Expression (MSI-
AI), is an independent expert on the European Commission's General Purpose AI Code of Practice working group
concerning AI Governance, on the project advisory board to the Global Partnership on AI Group concerning
Transformative AI policy for Gender, Diversity and Equality, sits on the UKAS Artificial Intelligence Technical Advisory
Committee, and represents Equinet in the making of the fundamental rights centred EU AI Act standards with
Cen/Cenelec.
