Cedric Yehuda Sabbah is AI Governance Lead at Israel’s National Digital Agency since April 2025. He leads the Agency’s efforts to develop responsible AI policy and implement it in government ministries and agencies. His work aligns domestic developments with international frameworks like the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, ISO Responsible AI standards and the OECD AI Principles.

Prior to this, he was director of Emerging Technologies at the Office of the Deputy Attorney General for International Law, where he advised Israel’s National Cyber Directorate and other government departments on questions of cybersecurity, internet governance, artificial intelligence and information technology generally, as they relate to international law.  He led negotiations on the AI Convention at the Council of Europe. In addition, he has served as Israel's delegate UNCITRAL and the Hague Conference on Private International Law, focusing on dispute resolution and technology.

He served as a foreign clerk at Israel's Supreme Court, then as legislative counsel in Canada’s Department of Justice (2002-2006). Cedric also worked as an M&A and hi-tech lawyer in the firm of Ephraim Abramson & Co in Jerusalem (2007-2011). He is a guest lecturer on AI governance, cybersecurity, internet governance and international law, and holds an LLB and LLM from the University of Montreal

Cedric´s Research:

* The Effects Doctrine in the Digital Age