Dr. Arlette Danielle Román Almánzar

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Dr Arlette Danielle Román is a human-rights lawyer and postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Work & Organizational Psychology (D-MTEC). Working under the supervision of Prof. Gudela Grote, her research lies at the intersection of AI ethics, job design, and human-centred technology development. Her central question is how individual and organizational factors shape the design and deployment of artificial-intelligence (AI) systems—and how these dynamics can be steered toward more equitable, sustainable outcomes. She holds a PhD in Sustainable Business focusing on responsible technology design from the University of Mannheim and an MSc in Public Policy from the University of Bristol. With a decade of public, private, and multilateral-sector experience, Arlette combines qualitative fieldwork and controlled experiments to generate actionable evidence for policy-makers and industry. Arlette has consulted for SAP and Daimler, where she developed frameworks for technology adoption, AI privacy, and ethical lobbying, as well as co-design recommendations for USDA-funded technology initiatives. She has also held policy leadership roles at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Vice President of the Dominican Republic (DR), and the Ministry of Women in DR. She serves on the executive board of the Global AI Ethics Institute and is an inclusion policy advisor for AI at GENIA Latinoamérica supporting equitable innovation across the region. A Konrad Adenauer Stiftung scholar and former curator of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers hubs in Santo Domingo and Berlin collaborator, she brings a transnational lens bridging law, ethics, and emerging technologies across Latin America and Europe.