AI for Good Brain Trust

The AI for Good Brain Trust is composed of an international panel of multi-stakeholder and inter-disciplinary partners, innovators and thinkers from industry, UN agencies, NGOs, civil society, member states, academia, start-ups, media and the arts who assist in identifying and curating high-impact sessions, collaborations and initiatives aimed at using AI to advance the UN SDGs.

Brain Trust

Amir Banifatemi
Chief Innovation Officer and Chair of the AI for Good Programme Committee
XPRIZE
Reinhard Scholl
Deputy to the Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB)
International Telecommunication Union
Frederic Werner
Head, Strategic Engagement
International Telecommunication Union
Anja Kaspersen
Senior Fellow, Artificial Intelligence & Equality Initiative (AIEI)
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Stuart Russell
Professor, Author of "Human Compatible"
UC-Berkeley
Francesca Rossi
IBM fellow
IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre
Bryn Balcombe
Founder; Director & CSO, Roborace
Autonomous Drivers Alliance (ADA)
Lj Rich
Inventor, BBC "Click" Presenter
BBC News
Yoshua Bengio
Founder and Scientific Director
Mila - Quebec AI Institute
Davar Ardalan
Founder and Storyteller; AI for Culture preservation Solution Track Co-Chair
IVOW AI, Inc.
Neil Sahota
World Wide Business Development Leader
IBM Watson
Maria Axente
Responsible AI and AI for Good Lead
PwC UK
John Kamara
Serial Entrepreneur and Founder of AI Center of Excellence Africa
AI Center of Excellence Africa
Naomi Lee
Senior Editor of The Lancet and Vice-Chair of the ITU-WHO Focus Group on AI for Health
The Lancet Journal
Stefan Germann
Chief Executive Officer; AI for Humanizing Health Solution Track Co-Chair
Fondation Botnar
Thomas Wiegand
FG-AI4H Chair, Professor, and Executive Director
Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute , TU Berlin
Irakli Beridze
Head of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)
Richard St-Pierre
Executive Vice Chairman
C2
Monique Kuglitsch
Innovation Manager
Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute
Frits Bussemaker
Chair
Institute for Accountability in the Digital Age (I4ADA)
Stephen Ibaraki
ACM Board member, past-chair; Board PDC Chair
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
L. Song Richardson
Dean and Chancellor's Professor of Law
UCI Law
Andrew Zolli
Vice President of Global Impact & Planet Fellow
Planet
Vishnu Ram OV
Independent Research Consultant
Kai-Fu Lee
CEO
Sinovation Ventures
Bernhard Kowatsch
Head of Innovation Accelerator
United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Soumya Swaminathan
Chief Scientist
World Health Organization (WHO)
Harry Yeff (Aka Reeps One)
Conductor, Artist & Musician
Reeps100 Studios
S. Ama Wray
Associate Professor
UC Irvine
Natalie St-Pierre
Co-Founder
Impact Hub Montreal
Wojciech Samek
Head of Department of Artificial Intelligence
Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute
Elim Kay
CEO
Kay Family Foundation​​
Wendell Wallach
Chair, Technology and Ethics Research Group
Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
Vicki Hanson
Chief Executive Officer
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Robert Kirkpatrick
Executive Director
UN Global Pulse
Christopher Fabian
Co-Founder
UNICEF's Innovation Unit
Philip Stier
Head of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics
University of Oxford
Virginia Dignum
Professor of Ethical & Social Artificial Intelligence
Umeå University
Alexandre Cadain
Co-Founder & CEO
ANIMA
Fei-Fei Li
Professor, Computer Science Department and Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute
Stanford University
P​et​er Lee
Corporate Vice President, Research & Incubations
Microsoft
Francesca Bria
Chairwoman
CDP Cassa Depositi e Prestiti
Moustapha Cissé
Research Scientist and Head of Google AI Center, Accra
Google
Robert Opp
Chief Digital Officer
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Sherif Elsayed-Ali
Co-Founder & CEO
Carbon Re
Aimee van​ Wynsberghe
Co-Founder & Co-Director
Foundation for Responsible Robotics
Eric Horvitz
Chief Scientific Officer
Microsoft
Terah Lyons
Founding Executive Director
The Partnership on AI (PAI)
Andy Chen
Founding Managing General Partner
REDDS Capital
Mathilde Forslund
Executive Director
Transform Health
Peter Norvig
Research Director
Google
Maurizio Vecchione
President & Chief Executive Officer
Washington Global Health Alliance
Tara Chklovski
Chief Executive Officer
Technovation
Rob McCargow
Director of Artificial Intelligence
PwC United Kingdom
Marcel Salathé​
Associate Professor
EPFL
Ramesh Krishnamurthy
Senior Adviser, Division of data, analytics and delivery for impact
World Health Organization (WHO)​
​​​​​​​​​​​​Sameer Pujari
“Be Healthy, Be Mobile” Project Manager
World Health Organization (WHO)
Leila Toplic
Head of Emerging Technologies Initiative
NetHope
Trent ​McConaghy
Founder, Ocean Protocol and Founder & CTO, BigchainDB​
Ocean Protocol
David Li
Founder
Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab
Joelle Casteix
Author, journalist and speaker
Zero Abuse Project
Francois Grey
Associate professor & Director of the Geneva Tsinghua Initiative
University of Geneva
Myriam Côté
Director AI for Humanity
Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
David Jensen
Coordinator of the UNEP Digital Transformation Task Force
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Isaac Kohane
Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics
Harvard Medical School
Maha Farhat
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Harvard Medical School

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