Caroline De Cock

Biography

Caroline De Cock, LL.M., is a technology policy strategist working on AI governance, digital rights, telecoms and public discourse, with more than 20 years of experience across industry, consultancy and civil society. She is Head of Research at information labs, where she leads specialist labs on AI, media, copyright, internet governance and innovation, and is a Senior Fellow at the Lisbon Council.

At information labs she has produced more than 65 expert interviews and multi-format briefs that make complex technical and regulatory questions accessible to policymakers, and she convenes dialogues between EU institutions, industry, researchers and civil society. She is also the founder of N-square Consulting and Square-up Agency, through which she advises technology and civil society organisations.

Her work focuses on bridging expertise between technologists, creators, policymakers, and civil society. Her approach blends legal and regulatory insight with strategic communications and narrative analysis – particularly how metaphors and hype distort policymaking. This theme anchors her latest book, AI Tools, Not Gods: Why Artificial Intelligence Hype Threatens Global Governance – and How to Fix It, published in January 2026.

A frequent speaker and published commentator, she has contributed to Techdirt, Techpolicy.press, and Euractiv; appeared on the ABA Trust & Trade podcast; and delivered keynotes at Google Cloud’s Education Policy Se

Having lived in eleven countries across Africa, Europe, the Middle East and South America, she brings a global perspective to how digital rules are made, exported and contested.