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Dila Şen

Global Regulatory & Requirements Compliance Specialist

Barcelona, Spain

Expert Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Batteries
  • Product Safety
  • Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Waste
  • Water Efficiency
Dila Şen
Overview

Dila has been a Global Regulatory & Requirements Compliance Specialist at C&R for 4 years. She is a sworn translator and qualified lawyer in Türkiye who was admitted to the Union of Turkish Bar Association in 2012. Following this, she worked as a lawyer in different law firms, industries and also in the biggest asset management company in Türkiye and has more than 10 years of working experience.

 

She has been leading and managing several global requirements projects for C&R clients and supports them with their AI, battery and pressure equipment-related compliance challenges globally. She specializes in research and monitoring legislative and regulatory activity related to all aspects of our product and topic coverage. She also works on special customer consulting and assessment projects that cover international standards and regulatory activity.

 

She holds a Bachelor of Law (LL.B.) from Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Türkiye, where she received a full scholarship based on her high score on the national exam. She continued her academic studies with a European Master in Law and Economics, where she studied in three different universities and was awarded triple master’s degrees from Bologna University (Italy), Ghent University (Belgium), and Haifa University (Israel), respectively. Additionally, she has a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Communication from Istanbul University, Türkiye.

 

She is highly interested in artificial intelligence and after completing Washington, US-based independent non-profit research organization Center for AI and Digital Policy’s AI Policy Clinic with distinction this year, now she continues her contributions as a research team lead.

 

She is also a member of the Artificial Intelligence Working Group of the Istanbul Bar Association’s Information Technology Law Commission.

 

Dila is a native Turkish speaker and she is fluent in English.

Experience Highlights
  • Research team lead & researcher at the Center for Artificial Intelligence & Digital Policy in Washington DC
  • Team member of the Artificial Intelligence Working Group of the Istanbul Bar Association
  • Author of “A New Era for Batteries within the EU: Batteries and Waste Batteries Regulation 2023/1542, December 2023” white paper
Qualifications
  • Bachelor of Law (LL.B.) – 2011
  • Qualified lawyer with the Union of Turkish Bar Association – 2012
  • Sworn translator from English to Turkish and vice versa – 2019
  • European Masters in Law and Economics (LL.M.) – 2019
  • Faculty of Communication, Department of Radio, TV and Cinema, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) – 2020