Alex Moltzau

Alex Moltzau is the Team Lead for Strategic Partnerships in the Norwegian Government AI Unit (KI Norge) within the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency, with a team of seven. He returned to this role from Brussels where he worked at the European AI Office as a seconded national expert on a foreign service contract from Norway. Within the AI Office he worked in DG CNECT Directorate A2 Artificial Intelligence Regulation and Compliance.

While working at the European AI Office he helped write implementing acts within the EU AI Act, setting up the new European AI Office, assisting with recruitment, events, and coordinating industrial collaborations. Notably, working directly with the Commissioner’s team, he put together the AI Pact and helped launch the initiative including OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Aleph Alpha, InfoSys and collection of the largest international companies working in the field of AI and software more broadly. When he left the AI Office the AI Pact included 3,200+ members spanning industry, civil society, and the public sector. As well as 230+ voluntary pledgers committing to proactive compliance efforts. He also co-wrote the draft implementing act on AI regulatory sandboxes.

He has two master’s degrees, one in Social Data Science and one European master’s in Artificial Intelligence for Public Services from four technical universities. He is also currently a Visiting Policy Fellow at the University of Cambridge and has been a guest lecturer at, amongst others, University of Oslo, Harvard Law School, and the University of Oxford.

He previously led the coordinating work on policy and ethics in NORA.ai, the largest national research collaboration in Norway on AI, machine learning, and robotics. As part of his work Alex has mapped out research within AI on a national level, while doing the same for the Norwegian government with AI, both on a project-level. He helped initiative the largest funding scheme for AI research in Norway’s history, the AI billion, through active policy work across the AI community and government. In addition to this he helped initiative significant work on AI policy in health that led to the national plan for AI in health care services.

Furthermore, he contributed to the process of the bilateral agreement between the US Department of Energy and the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research on AI. He was part of the committee under the Ministry of Research and Education managing the bilateral agreement on collaboration on AI Norway signed with the United States Department of Energy.