Germán López Ardila is a lawyer, lecturer, and advocate, working on tech policy, AI, and Internet governance. He currently works as Legal and Regulatory Affairs Director of a non-profit the Colombian Chamber of IT and Telecoms (CCIT), and lead its think tank, the ICT Creativity and Analysis Tank (TicTac). He lectures on tech regulation, microeconomics, and legaltech at the Universidad Javeriana and the Universidad Sergio Arboleda in Colombia. He is part of the board of the ISOC’s Youth Standing Group and is one of the Youth Ambassadors for 2023. He is a fellow of the Policy Shapers program by the Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Centre (LACNIC), a Global Policy Fellow of the Institute of Technology and Society (ITS) of Rio de Janeiro, and a Junior Research Fellow at the Latin American Center for Telecom Studies (cet.la).