Kirsten Rulf

Kirsten Rulf is a Partner and Associate Director at the Boston Consulting Group. She works with Fortune 500 and DAX 30 companies on AI governance and risk management, as well as on digital sovereignty strategies. Until April 2023 she was Head of Digital Policy at the Federal Chancellery of Germany for former Chancellors Angela Merkel. During that time, she was responsible for negotiating all EU Data, Cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence laws, e.g. the EU AI Act, Data Act, Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act. In addition to her work at BCG, Kirsten Rulf teaches AI policy at Yale University and is 2023 UC Berkeley Tech Policy Fellow. Until 2019, she taught AI and Compliance at Harvard Law School and was a Fellow at Berkman Klein Center. She holds an MPP from Harvard Kennedy School as McCloy Fellow, two M.A. from Oxford University, and was a 2022 Yale World Fellow.