BIO

Mark Boris Andrijanič serves as the Vice President of Kumo.AI, a deep-learning venture based in California and backed by Sequoia Capital. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and a member of the Governing Board of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), the EU’s innovation agency.

In 2021 and 2022, he served as Slovenia’s first-ever Minister of Digital Transformation. During Slovenia’s EU presidency in 2021, he led negotiations on the Digital Services Act (DSA) and other European tech regulations. In 2022, Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy awarded him the Peace Prize for supporting Ukraine’s digital resilience.

Before entering public office, Mark Boris headed Uber’s public policy in Central & Eastern Europe. He was also a Visiting Fellow at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies in Brussels, where he focused on the EU’s digital and economic policies. Before coming to Brussels, he advised the Government of Sierra Leone on economic and transparency reforms.

Mark Boris is a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum and a former David D. Rockefeller Fellow at the Trilateral Commission. He received a law degree from the University of Ljubljana and a Master’s in public policy from the University of Oxford, where he also serves on the Alumni Board.