Désirée Klingler is Professor of Administrative Law at the University of St.Gallen, Vice Director of the Institute for Law and Economics, and co-founder of the Center for Law and Tech.
Her research explores how emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs), are transforming government decision-making, administrative procedures, and public law. Her work focuses on the public procurement of AI systems, automated administrative decision-making, and patterns of legal reasoning. She combines doctrinal legal analysis with economic and computational methods.
Désirée has received a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) fellowship, won the 2024 Walther Hug Prize, and was appointed by the European Commission as a TED Ambassador for sustainable procurement. She previously taught at the University of Hamburg and conducted research at Yale Law School.
Désirée works closely with public authorities, including the Canton of Zurich’s AI Innovation Sandbox. Désirée also serves as an expert for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Vice President of the Swiss Federal Consumer Affairs Commission (EKK), and Managing Editor of a European academic journal.