Skip to content
Make AI Good

Graph · Person

Ella Jakubowska

01 · In focus

One person, in the field.

The structured facts the source records about Ella Jakubowska, the count of declared adjacencies in the corpus, and the federation map zoomed on this node and its neighbours.

person

↑5 declared connections

Kind
Person
Status
active
Confidence
high
Entity ID
person-ella-jakubowska
Network
View in network

Tags brussels, belgium, european-union, continental-europe, london-school-of-economics, policy-advocacy, head-of-policy, digital-rights, civil-liberties, biometric-surveillance, facial-recognition, remote-biometric-identification, biometrics, eu-ai-act, csa-regulation, prum-ii, predictive-policing, reclaim-your-face, ai-and-human-rights, surveillance, state-surveillance, platform-power, european-citizens-initiative

Ella Jakubowska · 3 direct neighbours visible

02 · Connections

5 adjacencies, by relation.

Split by direction. Direct links are the ones Ella Jakubowska’s source record names; inferred backlinks are records elsewhere in the corpus that point at this entity.

Direct from this record

2 links

Links named in this entity's structured fields.

Inferred backlinks

3 links

Other records that name this entity.

03 · Background

From the source record.

Body prose as it appears in movement-graph’s published markdown for this entity. Links to other corpus entities resolve to their graph page; links to deeper repo paths are kept as text so the page does not invent a route.

Brussels-based digital-rights policy advocate and Head of Policy at European Digital Rights (EDRi), the pan-European network of civil-society organisations defending rights and freedoms in the digital environment. Jakubowska leads the EDRi Brussels secretariat's policy team on state surveillance, platform power, and tech and society — with named specialisms in biometrics advocacy, the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation, and Prüm II — and is the corpus's named EDRi spokesperson on the Act's biometric provisions.

Jakubowska holds an MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science (distinction, 2018-2019), with a focus on intersectional feminist sociology of science and technology; EDRi names her prior career as digital-transformation work at a global engineering company before her move into European digital-rights advocacy.

She has been the coalition's most consistent public spokesperson on the biometric track of the EDRi-coordinated EU AI Act civil-society coalition through the legislative cycle. She is named as a Policy Advisor contributor on the coalition's 30 November 2021 founding joint civil-society statement Civil society calls on the EU to put fundamental rights first in the AI Act, was promoted to Senior Policy Advisor by the time of EDRi's 9 December 2023 political-agreement public verdict on the trilogue deal, and is now Head of Policy. Her verbatim public statement on the December 2023 political agreement — "it's hard to be excited about a law which has, for the first time in the EU, taken steps to legalise live public facial recognition across the bloc" — was the coalition's principal on-the-record framing of the Act's law-enforcement and migration-context carve-outs from the prohibition on remote biometric identification, and is cited in the campaign body as the coalition's reference public verdict on the biometric file.

Alongside the inter-institutional advocacy, Jakubowska's biometric-rights work at EDRi sits inside the Reclaim Your Face coalition — the EDRi-coordinated European Citizens' Initiative against biometric mass surveillance in European public space, registered on 7 January 2021, running signature collection from 17 February 2021 through 1 August 2022 and gathering nearly 80,000 verified signatures, and the campaign whose framings ("ban", "remote biometric identification") are widely credited inside the coalition with entering the AI Act proposal text as a direct consequence of the mobilisation.

04 · Sources

Where this came from.

6 sources listed from the pinned corpus. Links are shown only when the source URL is a valid HTTP(S) address.

  1. edri.org

    Checked 2026-05-14

    EDRi's own staff page — primary source for her current title as Head of Policy of EDRi's Brussels secretariat, her stated work areas (state surveillance, platform power, tech & society), her named specialisms (biometrics advocacy, EU AI Act, CSA Regulation, Prüm II), her MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics with a focus on intersectional feminist sociology of science and technology, and her named prior career in digital transformation at a global engineering company

  2. be.linkedin.com

    Checked 2026-05-14

    Jakubowska's own LinkedIn profile — primary source for her current Head of Policy title at European Digital Rights in Brussels, her 2018-2019 distinction-grade MSc at the London School of Economics, and her career history with EDRi and prior roles in London and Brussels

  3. edri.org

    Checked 2026-05-14

    EDRi-coordinated 30 November 2021 joint civil-society statement "Civil society calls on the EU to put fundamental rights first in the AI Act" — primary source for her named Policy Advisor contribution to the statement at publication, the coalition's founding seven-prohibition framing, and her continuing role as EDRi's drafting lead through the AI Act civil-society coordination

  4. edri.org

    Checked 2026-05-14

    EDRi's 9 December 2023 political-agreement public verdict — primary source for her Senior Policy Advisor title as of late 2023 and for her verbatim public statement on the AI Act deal that "it's hard to be excited about a law which has, for the first time in the EU, taken steps to legalise live public facial recognition across the bloc"

  5. europeanaifund.org

    Checked 2026-05-14

    European AI & Society Fund round-up of European civil-society reactions to the 9 December 2023 trilogue political agreement — independent secondary source naming her as EDRi's spokesperson on facial recognition in the coalition's mixed public verdict on the adopted text, alongside Access Now, Angela Müller (AlgorithmWatch), Mher Hakobyan (Amnesty), and Fair Trials

  6. reclaimyourface.eu

    Checked 2026-05-14

    Reclaim Your Face campaign post-mortem — primary source for EDRi's coordination of the European Citizens' Initiative against biometric mass surveillance that ran from 7 January 2021 through 1 August 2022 and gathered nearly 80,000 verified signatures, the principal pan-European civil-society campaign under which her biometric-rights advocacy at EDRi sits

Source: entities/persons/person-ella-jakubowska.md in movement-graph at pin 3cc1a36.