Tobias Haar has been working as a German-qualified lawyer since 1999. He holds international degrees in Legal Informatics (LL.M. Hanover/Stockholm) and Business Administration (MBA Kellogg-WHU, Evanston/Vallendar). He initially worked in the Communications, Media & Technology department of the major international law firm Clifford Chance until 2005. Since then, he has been an in-house lawyer and headed, built, and successfully managed the legal departments at Gameforge (Karlsruhe) and Omio (Berlin), among others. For years, he has been specializing in the application of law and regulation on (generative) AI technologies. Since 2023, he has been General Counsel at the European AI startup Aleph Alpha, based in Heidelberg, and has been successfully leading its 500m USD Series B financing. He lectures on IT law issues at various universities, and publishes IT law articles. For several years, he was Chairman of the Board of game – Verband der deutschen Games-Industrie e.V. based in Berlin and organizer of gamescom. In most of his inhouse roles he actively engaged in public affairs and lobbying activities, including on the AI Act and other forms of (digital) regulation, as well as international taxation.