Anu Bradford
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Anu Bradford
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Award-Winning Author and Leading Scholar on the Digital Economy and the European Union
Anu Bradford is a leading scholar and an award-winning author of bestselling books on the digital economy and the European Union. Her talks are rich with powerful insights, helping organizations decode the digital future and offering audiences new ways to think about big geopolitical shifts around technology.
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Anu Bradford is a leading voice and sought-after commentator on the European Union’s regulatory power and the global digital economy. Bradford’s award-winning, bestselling books have made her a sought-after keynote speaker whose research and public commentary are regularly featured in top international news outlets, including The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
Bradford is the author of The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (2020), which was named one of the best books of 2020 by Foreign Affairs, with Andrew Moravcsik of Princeton University writing that The Brussels Effect “may well be the single most important book on Europe’s global influence to appear in a decade.” The Brussels Effect has shaped public discourse on the EU and garnered extensive media attention.
Bradford’s newest book, Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology was recognized as one of the best books of 2023 by Financial Times. Digital Empires has made Bradford an acclaimed voice in conversations about the digital economy, geopolitics of artificial intelligence, US-China tech wars, and European digital sovereignty.
Bradford is a Professor at Columbia Law School. She grew up in Finland and earned her doctorate at Harvard Law School. Bradford lives today in New York City with her husband and three children.
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Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
The global battle among the three dominant digital powers — the United States, China, and the European Union — is intensifying. All three regimes are racing to regulate tech companies, with each advancing a competing vision for the digital economy while attempting to expand its sphere of influence in the digital world. In her talk based on her award-winning book Digital Empires, Anu Bradford explores a rivalry that will shape the world in the decades to come. She examines the choices we face as companies, societies, and individuals, explains the forces that shape those choices, and illuminates the immense stakes involved for everyone who uses digital technologies.
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The Brussels Effect
For many observers, the European Union is mired in a deep crisis, battling sluggish economic growth and rising geopolitical insecurity. The EU is also viewed as being at the mercy of the escalating trade and tech war between the leading technology powers, the US and China. As a result, the EU is seen as a declining power on the world stage. In her talk based on her award-winning book The Brussels Effect, Anu Bradford challenges this narrative of the EU’s weakness. Instead, she shows how the EU remains an influential superpower through its regulations that shape the world in its image due to a phenomenon she calls the “Brussels Effect”. Her talk reveals how the EU has acquired such power, why multinational companies use EU standards as global standards, and why the EU’s role as the world’s regulator is likely to outlive its gradual economic decline, extending the EU’s influence over global markets long into the future.
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The Contest for AI Supremacy: The Winner Doesn’t Take All
The race over technological supremacy in the age of artificial intelligence is intensifying as tech companies and governments are racing to seize opportunities that the AI revolution presents. This AI race is often viewed as a two-way contest between the leading technological and economic superpowers — the United States and China — whereas the rest of the world is seen as being at the mercy of this great power rivalry. Anu Bradford identifies the winners and losers in this race, while explaining why no single country will be able to claim a complete victory in the near future. However, the pursuit of that elusive victory is dramatically shaping AI development and the global digital economy.
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