Enrico Panai is a professional AI ethicist who has worked extensively with companies, institutions, and public bodies on projects relating to the ethics of artificial intelligence. He teaches at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Italy and serves as president of the Association of AI Ethicists, which promotes responsible and ethical AI development and deployment. He holds a degree in philosophy and a PhD in AI Ethics and Cybergeography from the University of Sassari (Italy), where he spent six years teaching Digital Humanities. He later deepened his expertise in cybersecurity at the Institut National de Hautes Études de la Sécurité et de la Justice in Paris. Panai is actively involved in European and international standardisation work as an officer of the French AI standardisation committee at AFNOR, editor of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC42 WG3 standard on AI-enhanced nudging, and convenor of WG4 on Fundamental and Societal Aspects of AI within CEN-CENELEC JTC21, the committee tasked with supporting the implementation of the EU AI Act. Panai has written extensively on AI ethics and the need to include peripheral and marginalised communities in the construction of global ethical frameworks. He also translated Luciano Floridi’s The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence into French. He is the author of Skip! The Art of Avoiding Projects (EDES, 2020), an essay on an ecological approach to project management in the information age, and The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Explained to My Son (Mimesis, 2024), a lively dialogue between a father, his son, and an eccentric uncle.