The Team
Katja Rausch
Founder of The House of Ethics™. Co-author of Swarm Ethics™
As a Sorbonne Linguist, Katja accumulated 25 years of cross-continent and cross-industry expertise in Europe and the US in IT, corporate ethics, and customer loyalty and trust.
Katja started her professional career at the world leading strategic planning at Young & Rubicam in Paris, followed by years as database manager at Booz Allen & Hamilton in NYC.
Back in Europe, she became director of digital strategy for a leading IT integrator in Paris, advising leaders like Cartier, Lafuma, Intermarché, Facom or pharmaceutical powerhouses and banking groupings through the digital transformation.
For another 12 years Katja has been professor of Information Systems and Business Linguistics at the Master in Logistics, Marketing & Distribution at the Sorbonne Management School.
In 2016, Katja started the first Data Ethics Master’s classes in France at the Paris School of Business (PSB, formerly École Supérieure de Gestion – Haute École) with focus on privacy, cybersecurity, and applied Computer Ethics in addition to Project Management like “Agile Project Management” or “Ethical Leadership” classes.
In 2021, she founded the House of Ethics, which gained quick international reputation for its novel, original and timely perspectives on ethics. With Daniele Proverbio, she has been developing Swarm Ethics™ to fill a practical gap in modern digital business ethics; both are working on further research tangent to collective and decentralized cognitive business management. Katja’s articles on ethics, AI, and data ethics are published at www.houseofethics.lu.
Daniele Proverbio
Complex Systems expert. Co-author of Swarm Ethics™ and Director of Interdisciplinary Research at The House of Ethics™
Daniele Proverbio is an expert in Physics of Complex Systems, and holds a PhD in AI, complex dynamical networks and computation. He is currently affiliated with the University of Trento (IT), where he pursues research on the role of crisis and critical transitions in complex systems. In addition, Dr. Proverbio completed an MBA at Collège des Ingénieurs (Paris, Munich, Turin) and worked as business and marketing consultant at La Repubblica (GEDI). He advised S-Eye-S, a startup to assist rescuers after catastrophes, and Farmelody, for digital animal health.
He worked at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine and was visiting researcher at the University of Exeter (UK), as well as member of several international research groups. He received several awards for his PhD studies, including the FNR ESOF Travel grant for the EuroScience Open Forum 2022 and the COVID-19 Lung Lesion Segmentation Challenge top-10 award, from Nvidia, NIH and Children’s National Hospital. He is author of papers for Elsevier, IEEE and Springer, and member of the Sigma Xi Honorary Scientific Society, the Complex Systems Society and the Società Italiana di Fisica.
His commitment to ethical frameworks, management background and interdisciplinary outlook make him a peculiar figure at the crossroad of science, ethics and entrepreneurship.
Dr. Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes
CEO of the Institute of Science, Entrepreneurship, and Investments. Co-founding member of Swarm Ethics™
Dr. Vasiliu-Feltes has made significant contributions to the ethics community by leading the Ethics Working Group for the World Metaverse Council and her former role as Chief Ethics officer for the Government Blockchain Association, as well as through her selected publications, which include her book chapter “The Art of Ethics in Blockchain for Life Sciences” (2022), her role as editor in the book “Impact of Women’s Empowerment on SDGs in the Digital Era” (2022), co-editor in “Applied Ethics in a Digital World” (2021) and “Digital Identity in the Era of Personalized Medicine (2022).
Dr. Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes’s expansive expertise, commitment to ethics, and dedication to advancing digital innovation make her an influential figure in the intersection of science, entrepreneurship, and ethical practices. Beyond the international ethics arena, Dr. Vasiliu-Feltes serves as an Expert Advisor to the European Union Blockchain Observatory and Forum, Advisory Partner at Virtue Consultants, Executive Partner at GlobalReach BI, and holding several leadership roles at the World Business Angels Investment Forum and its Institutes, which is an affiliated partner of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) chaired by Her Majesty Queen Maxima of the Netherlands. Founder & CEO of the Institute for Science, Entrepreneurship and Investments, Board Member of the Partners in Digital Health Institute, as well as the Government Blockchain Association, where she remains the acting Chief Innovation Officer and Global Lead of the World Smart Cities Group, and a Women in AI Ambassador. Executive partner or advisor to Fortune 500 and UN-affiliated organizations. Most recent executive consulting engagements include the EU Central Bank and US Bank. Earned a Doctor in Medicine and an Executive Masters in Business Administration, and holds additional executive certifications in AI, Blockchain, Finance, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Leadership.
She holds an ethics certification by the National Institutes of Health, Bioethics certification from Harvard University, and was designated a certified human rights consultant by the US Institute of Diplomacy and Human Rights.
