Dr. Klára Talabér-Ritz is Deputy to Director and Legal Adviser in the Legal Service of the European Commission, where she also leads the Knowledge Management and Artificial Intelligence team.

Since joining the Legal Service in 2003, she has worked across multiple teams, including State Aid and Antidumping, Internal Market and European Civil Service Law. She has represented the European Commission in over 200 cases before the European Court of Justice and international courts, playing a key role in several landmark cases in institutional, economic and environmental law. 

Before joining the European Commission, she practiced law from 1998 to 2003 at various Hungarian and American law firms in Budapest.

Dr. Talabér-Ritz holds a law degree from Eötvös Loránd University and a Master’s degree in European Law and Economics from Corvinus University of Budapest, in addition to her post-graduate studies at the College of Europe. In 2019-2020, she was an EU Research Fellow for Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Profession at Harvard University. 

Fluent in Hungarian, English, French and Italian, Dr. Talabér-Ritz is a regular speaker at international conferences on environmental law and artificial intelligence.