Who is authorized to sign the data and software (BEE) licenses?
The appropriate person to execute the license is generally a lawyer in the organization’s legal office. The key attribute of the person is that they be authorized to bind the organization legally. For example, faculty members at universities are generally not authorized to legally bind the university to a contract. Students and post-docs are definitely not able to do that. Likewise, most companies have legal offices/representatives who would perform the function.