GAIL Member Drop-In Session, June 2026

AI Governance & Corporate Sustainability Regulation

Hosted by GAIL Europe

Tuesday 16 June, 08:00 EDT | 13:00 BST | 14:00 CEST | 15:00 EAT | 17:30 IST | 20:00 SGT

Format: Online | Member-Only

Duration: 1 hour

GAIL drop-in session, hosted by GAIL Europe, with members from all regions welcome.

Please join us for an informal, online meet-up and a chance to meet your fellow members. It’s an opportunity to share updates on recent work, discuss potential collaborations and highlight developments in impact law. 

This session will focus on emerging developments in AI governance and corporate sustainability regulation in Europe and globally. It will be moderated by Juan Diego Mujica Filippi, Impact Law and Governance Lead at NATIVA.

We will be joined by Dr Maksim Karliuk, an expert in emerging technology governance and former UNESCO and European Commission advisor on AI governance, who will share insights on global AI governance frameworks, ethics, and the evolving regulatory landscape around AI.

We will also be joined by Carlota de Paula Coelho, Policy Lead at B Lab, who will reflect on the implementation of the EU Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive and the growing challenges companies face in navigating sustainability communication, anti-greenwashing scrutiny, and regulatory fragmentation.

Agenda

Topic 1

Who Makes the Rules for AI? Navigating Global Governance Frameworks and Ethics by Dr. Maksim Karliuk

AI governance is developing fast but unevenly — across national regulators, regional frameworks like the EU AI Act, and international fora including the UN and OECD. This session maps the key actors and frameworks shaping how AI is governed globally, explores the ethical principles underneath them, and asks what responsible organisations need to understand to stay ahead of — not just compliant with — the rules.

Topic 2

How can the EU empower consumers without silencing responsible businesses? by Carlota de Paula Coelho

Reflections from ongoing exchanges with regulators and policymakers around the implementation of the EU Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition (ECGT) Directive. The session will explore the growing uncertainty, fragmentation and “greenhushing” emerging from the prospect of 27 national interpretations and enforcement approaches, particularly in the absence of detailed guidance. It will also examine the broader tension companies are navigating today: increasingly urgent sustainability challenges and expectations on one side, and on the other, political backlash, legal risk, anti-greenwashing scrutiny and mixed policy signals that can discourage credible communication and leadership.

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Speakers

Juan Diego Mujica Filippi
Juan Diego Mujica Filippi

(Moderator)

Impact Law and Governance Lead, NATIVA

Juan Diego drives systemic change by empowering organizations to build purpose-driven, regenerative, and sustainable futures. With expertise in the law and governance of purpose-driven organizations with a multi-jurisdictional lens, he works at NATIVA, Italy’s pioneering B Corp. He has shaped international Benefit Corporation legislation, serves on the board of the Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers, and advises organizations on aligning their goals with measurable social and environmental impact.

Juan Diego is dedicated to driving systemic change by empowering individuals and organizations to create purpose-driven, regenerative, and sustainable futures. With over a decade of expertise in purpose-driven companies, social entrepreneurship, and organizational governance, he specializes in the Benefit Corporation legal model and B Corp legal requirements through a multi-jurisdictional and comparative lens.

Drawing from his Harvard Law School LL.M. and extensive professional experience across the United States, Europe, and Latin America, Juan Diego currently serves as Impact Law and Governance Lead at NATIVA, Italy’s pioneering Benefit Corporation and Certified B Corp. In this role, he advises leadership, teams, and clients on strategic decisions that align governance principles with measurable social and environmental impact, enabling organizations to become catalysts for regenerative change.

Throughout his career, he has led transformative projects, including a three-year international research initiative funded by the United Nations Development Program, which influenced legislation in six Ibero-American countries. Juan Diego is a board member of the Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers (GAIL) and is deeply committed to mentoring students and professionals, particularly from Latin America, guiding them in aligning their professional paths with their values in sustainability.

Passionate about connecting with others, Juan Diego actively exchanges ideas on how governance, sustainability, and innovation can shape a better world.

 

Dr Maksim Karliuk
Dr Maksim Karliuk

Former advisor on AI governance, UNESCO and European Commission

Dr Maksim Karliuk is an expert in emerging technology governance and public policy. As Principal Consultant at UNESCO, he helped develop and negotiate the first global AI ethics framework adopted by 193 states, and later served as an Independent Expert with the European Commission’s AI Office, contributing to the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice under the EU AI Act. He advises organisations on AI governance and emerging technology policy and teaches at ESCP Business School. He holds an LLM and a PhD in Law, and has recently completed an MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy at the London School of Economics.

Carlota de Paula Coelho

Senior Policy Manager, B Lab

Carlota leads Policy at B Lab, the global non-profit behind the B Corp movement. She has a background in European Union Law (LL.M) and leads advocacy initiatives at global level in the sphere of corporate sustainability in collaboration with responsible businesses. She’s also a member of technical expert groups at EFRAG, GRI and ISO, helping align regulatory developments with sustainability practices across sectors and regions. She’s a former corporate sustainability consultant, specialised in impact measurement, ESG reporting, and assurance.