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Canan Ahtihan Baştımar

Canan Ahtihan Baştımar

Senior Legal Counsel & Group Legal AI Lead
Air Liquide
Belgium

Lead legal support for strategic carbon capture, energy transition and industrial infrastructure projects across Benelux, with additional support for Nordic countries and other European jurisdictions.

Key responsibilities include:
• Advise senior business leaders on complex cross-border infrastructure projects, joint ventures and long-term commercial agreements.
• Lead negotiations and provide strategic legal guidance throughout the project lifecycle.
• Appointed as Global Legal AI Lead to drive responsible AI adoption across the Group Legal function.
• Develop AI governance principles, prompt libraries, legal AI training programmes and best practices supporting scalable legal service delivery.
• Partner with leadership to identify opportunities for legal process optimisation, knowledge management and AI-enabled workflows.
• Support digital transformation initiatives balancing innovation, regulatory compliance and risk management.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of legal operations through governance, process standardisation, knowledge sharing and cross-functional collaboration.

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