FOTI is a think tank dedicated to building a prosperous and fair European future that harnesses the power of technology.

Cori Crider is FOTI's Executive Director.

A strategist and communicator, Cori has led international teams of advocates for over fifteen years. She also advises philanthropic organisations about ways to tackle market concentration.

In 2019, she co-founded Foxglove, a non-profit committed to justice in technology. During her tenure Foxglove won the UK’s first legal challenges to biased government algorithms, enforced the rights of Facebook and  Amazon workers,  challenged social media’s role in fuelling violence, and defended public value and patient autonomy in the use of health data. Prior to that she directed an international national security team at Reprieve.

Cori’s writing and views on tech justice and market power have featured in the Financial Times, the Guardian, the BBC, Politico, the British Medical Journal, Project Syndicate, and others. In 2019 she presented The World According to AI, a documentary. Originally a practising lawyer, Cori is both a Senior Fellow at Open Markets Institute and an Honorary Professor of Practice at UCL College of Laws

Lucie Castets is FOTI’s France Senior Lead.

Lucie Castets, former Chief Financial Officer of the city of Paris and previously a consensus candidate for Prime Minister of a broad coalition of left-of-centre parties within France.

Lucie came with a wealth of national and international regulatory experience - from working with international organizations as well as large financial institutions to track fraud with Tracfin, to managing multi-billion euro budgets for the city of Paris - but also had experience organising civil society campaigns for proper funding of public services. This has given her connections and standing in the upper echelons of the French civil service and in the senior reaches of French politics. As a result of the Prime Ministerial campaign of 2024, Lucie is also, in France, a household name.

Lucie Castets was elected mayor of the 12th arrondissement of Paris in the municipal elections of March 2026. She now works part-time for FoTI.

Jean Cattan is FOTI’s Of Counsel.

Over the last 20 years, he has served as Secretary General of the French Digital Council (Conseil national du numérique), as head of the national “Café IA” initiative, and as the advisor to the Chairman of Arcep. He was also a lecturer in digital law and regulation at several higher education institutions, including Aix-Marseille, Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, Strasbourg, Panthéon-Assas Universities, l’Ena, and Sciences Po Paris.

His contributions span landmark milestones in internet freedom, net neutrality, open device principles, EU law negotiations, and the fight against data retention and surveillance, with recent efforts focused on algorithmic pluralism and the democratization of technology, including AI. Lastly, he acted as rapporteur of the French National Strategic Review on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference.

A trained lawyer with a PhD in digital communications law from Aix-Marseille University and degrees from La Sorbonne and the College of Europe, he is a prolific author and public commentator, co-authoring a book with Serge Abiteboul, publishing some 60 articles across outlets from Le Monde to Concurrences, and overseeing all French Digital Council publications from 2021 to 2025, including a dozen major reports, a weekly newsletter, and around 100 interviews.  He continues to share independent analysis of digital regulation through his personal blog and to independently advise the FOTI team on technical and legal policy opportunities across the European and French landscapes that relate to FOTI's strategic objectives.

Tobias B. Bacherle is FOTI’s Germany Senior Lead.

The political scientist brings extensive experience at the intersection of technology policy, international relations and democratic governance.

From 2021 to 2025 he served as a Member of the German Bundestag, where he was the coordinator of his parliamentary group in the Committee on Digital Affairs and a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He focused on European digital sovereignty, AI and data governance, and the geopolitical implications of technology policy. Before his time in parliament, he worked for a MEP, a state legislator and as a freelance campaigner and graphic designer. He’s rounding up his federal in depth knowledge with his background in local politics, being councillor to his hometown from 2014 to 2022.

When not working on tech-policies, he is member of the board of dit is schade e.V., a non profit fostering popculture in his hometown Sindelfingen, and member of the advisory board of Experiment e.V., a student exchange organization.

Taylor Gese is FOTI’s UK Advocacy Lead.

She leads efforts to influence UK policy and build the political conditions needed to advance tech accountability, digital sovereignty, and democracy-centred alternatives to concentrated tech power.

She began her career at Human Rights Watch on the organisation’s public advocacy and outreach teams. Taylor then transitioned to Purpose, where she helped develop the organisation’s portfolio on tech harms and digital threats to democracy. As an independent consultant, she has provided strategic insights and project leadership to leading philanthropies and campaign organisations working on tech accountability.

Prior to her current role, Taylor served as Senior Advisor to the Senior Vice President at the International Rescue Committee, and most recently spent two years as Chief of Staff for Technology at the Meliore Foundation, where she helped build and shape the foundation's tech and society programming from the ground up, while overseeing strategy, operations, campaigns, and team coordination.

Sherif Elsayed-Ali is FOTI’s Senior Fellow.

Sherif’s expertise sits at the intersection of technology policy, entrepreneurship and human rights. He previously co-founded and served as CEO of Carbon Re, a joint spin-out of Cambridge University and UCL using machine learning to accelerate the decarbonization of foundational materials such as cement. Prior to this, he set up and led the AI for Climate practice at Canadian scale-up Element AI and was co-founder of Amnesty Tech. He was a World Economic Forum Global Future Council co-chair and a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, both focusing on the intersection of technology and human rights. Sherif has a BSc degree in Civil Engineering from the American University in Cairo and a Masters degree in Public Administration from Harvard.

Robin Berjon is FOTI’s Senior Fellow.

He’s a technologist specialised in the governance of technology. His work focuses on digital sovereignty, issues of power in the digital sphere, and bringing democracy to the internet. He is Principal at Supramundane Agency, Deputy Director of the IPFS Foundation, and a Senior Fellow with both the Future of Technology Institute and the Public AI network. Previously, he was VP of Data Governance at The New York Times, where he worked on data strategy and safeguarding media independence, and Vice-Chair of the board of the World Wide Web Consortium.