Selected AFFILIATIONS
Pin Lean was formerly the General Manager and legal researcher at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence: Social & Digital Innovations. She now remains an Associate Member of the Centre. Pin Lean serves as a strategic colleague, bridging legal, regulatory, and ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence. Drawing on over a decade of cross-border experience in digital regulation and policy development, she contributes to the Centre’s thought leadership on responsible AI governance, with a particular focus on AI in health and medicine, generative models, and international compliance frameworks.
Her role includes advising on the development of regulatory roadmaps, contributing to academic and policy dialogues, including the EU’s recently published Code of Practice for General Purpose AI . Pin Lean’s interdisciplinary lens and editorial acumen also support the Centre’s publications and stakeholder engagement, ensuring that legal clarity and ethical foresight remain central to its mission.
Pin Lean is the Director of Research, and Head of the UK & European Chapter of the Responsible Metaverse Alliance. She leads the development of rigorous, forward-looking research agendas that interrogate the legal, ethical, and societal implications of immersive technologies in UK and Europe. Her work bridges regulatory foresight with practical governance, ensuring that metaverse innovation remains anchored in human rights, digital safety, and supranational legal coherence.
The RMA is a global initiative committed to shaping a metaverse that is inclusive, transparent, and accountable. Through its regional chapters, the Alliance convenes experts across law, technology, ethics, and public policy to produce actionable guidance for governments, platforms, and civil society. Recent reports include “The Metaverse and the Rule of Law”, “Children’s Rights in Immersive Environments”, and “Cross-Border Jurisdiction in Virtual Worlds”, each offering strategic recommendations for safeguarding users and harmonizing legal standards across digital borders.
Pin Lean also contributes to the Alliance’s public engagement and policy dialogues, advocating for regulatory clarity and ethical leadership in the design of virtual ecosystems.
Pin Lean is the General Manager of the Interest Group on Supranational Bio-Law, of the European Association of Health Law. Together with a Management Committee, she co-leads a dynamic platform for interdisciplinary dialogue on the evolving legal architectures that govern health, biomedicine, and biotechnology across borders. Her role involves curating strategic initiatives that explore the intersection of EU law, international human rights, and emerging bioethical frameworks—particularly in the context of AI, genomic data, and cross-border health governance.
She helps in facilitating collaborative research, policy engagement, and academic exchange among legal scholars, ethicists, and regulatory experts. She also oversees the development of thematic briefings, stakeholder consultations, and editorial outputs that advance the Group’s mission to shape supranational legal discourse with clarity, rigor, and ethical foresight.
Pin Lean is an active member of Daughters of Themis International Network of Women Business Scholars, a global network of women business scholars committed to advancing justice, sustainability, and feminist perspectives in commercial law and governance. Her involvement reflects a deep alignment with the network’s mission to foster scholarly collaboration, mentorship, and transformative legal thinking across borders.
In 2023, Pin Lean served as Academic Lead Coordinator for the network’s annual workshop held in Kea, Greece, curating a program that brought together interdisciplinary voices to explore themes of ethical business, regulatory innovation, and feminist jurisprudence. Her leadership ensured that the workshop not only facilitated rigorous academic exchange but also nurtured a supportive and inclusive intellectual community. She also took on the role of Special Issue Editor, overseeing the development of a peer-reviewed publication that captured the workshop’s key insights. The issue foregrounded critical reflections on corporate accountability, gendered governance, and the future of business law in a rapidly evolving global landscape.
Pin Lean’s contributions to Daughters of Themis exemplify her commitment to scholarly integrity, collaborative leadership, and the cultivation of legal frameworks that serve both commercial and societal good.
