José Jaime Villalobos Ruiz
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Updated 03/22/26José Jaime Villalobos Ruiz is Multilateral Governance Lead at the Future of Life Institute and a Research Affiliate at both the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative and the Institute for Law & AI. He holds a PhD in International Law from Victoria University of Wellington, an LLM in International Law from the University of Cambridge (as a Chevening Scholar), and a BA from the Universidad de Costa Rica. His research focuses on the international law and governance of global catastrophic and existential risks, with particular emphasis on risks from artificial intelligence, and he is the lead author of a forthcoming book comparing international legal regimes to derive foundational principles for AI governance. He has co-authored influential policy reports including "International AI Institutions: A Literature Review of Models, Examples, and Proposals" (2023) and "Beyond a Piecemeal Approach: Prospects for a Framework Convention on AI" (2024), both with Matthijs Maas. He is also Co-Founder and Chief Editor of the Costa Rican Journal of International Law and has served in the consultative network of the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence.
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