Juha Heikkilä is Adviser for International Aspects of AI in the European AI Office at the European Commission, leading the EU international engagement in AI. He has long been involved in developing the EU Artificial Intelligence and Robotics activities, previously heading a unit which was instrumental in developing the 2018 AI strategy, the Coordinated Plan on AI, and engaging with the High-Level Expert Group on AI. He oversaw a major funding programme on Robotics and AI, including the €700m Public-Private Partnership in Robotics, and was setting up the PPP in AI, Data and Robotics. Juha Heikkilä holds a PhD in Linguistics from Cambridge University.