Creative Mornings is a series of monthly lectures for creative individuals. During one of these Creative Mornings experts talk about the most diverse subjects, there is an opportunity for informal discussion and refreshment is available in the form of coffee and croissants!

This edition, Pēteris will talk about digital as a route to an empowered, healthy citizen - benefiting from an ethical and transparent Digital Single Market.

Theme: Ethics

Pēteris Zilgalvis is the Head of Unit for eHealth and Well Being in DG CONNECT, European Commission.

Previously, he was Head of the Governance and Ethics Unit, Directorate Science, Economy and Society at DG Research.

He was the Visiting EU Fellow at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford for 2013-14, where he is also an Associate of the Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme.

P. Zilgalvis studied political science at the University of California, Los Angeles. At the Law Centre of the University of Southern California he obtained his JD and received the Darling Foundation academic scholarship. He completed the High Potentials Leadership Program at Harvard Business School.

He has published over 30 publications on bioethics, economics and finance, innovation law and policy, European and environmental law in English, Latvian, and French. A recent publication of his is “The Need for an Innovation Principle in Regulatory Impact Assessment: The Case of Finance and Innovation in Europe” .