ABOUT

Peteris Zilgalvis is a Judge on the General Court of the European Union. He is a Member of its Management Board and of the Artificial Intelligence Management Board of the Court of Justice of the EU. Previously, he was the Head of Unit for Digital Innovation and Blockchain in the Digital Single Market Directorate in the European Commission and was the Co-Chair of the European Commission FinTech Task Force. He was the Visiting EU Fellow at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford and was an Associate of Political Economy of Financial Markets there. Prior to that he was Deputy Head of the Bioethics Department in DG Legal Affairs at the Council of Europe. Earlier, he was Senior Environmental Law Advisor to the World Bank/Russian Federation Environmental Management Project and was a Regional Environmental Specialist at the World Bank. His career started in the Latvian ministries of environment and of foreign affairs. He completed his J.D. at the University of Southern California and his B.A. in Political Science Cum Laude at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).