Maja Bogataj Jančič

Maja Bogataj Jančič is the founder and head of the Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute, ODIPI. 

 

Maja is a copyright expert. Her recent work focuses on data governance and artificial intelligence, open sceience. She is the National Coordinator for Slovenia and the Regional Coordinator for the 6 Western Balkan countries of the Knowledge Rights 21 project. She is an Associate Research Fellow at the BKC Internet and Society at Harvard. She co-chaired the Data Governance Working Group of The Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) in 2020-2023 and is now a member. She is a board member of Communia and legal lead of Creative Commons Slovenia since 2004.

Maja graduated from the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana (1996), obtained her LL.M. from the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana (1999, Economics), Harvard Law School (2000, Law) and Facoltà di Giurisprudenza di Torino (2005, Intellectual Property), and her Ph.D. from the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana (2006, Copyright).