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Craig Ramlal

Craig Ramlal

Dr. Craig Ramlal is the Executive Director of the Artificial Intelligence Innovation Centre, at the UWI and the Head of the Control Systems Group in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. In 2023, the United Nations recognized him as a preeminent AI leader, appointing him to the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence. The body’s recommendations on governing AI for humanity formed Objective 5 of the Global Digital Compact, which was adopted by member states in September 2024 during the 79th UN General Assembly, and some implemented in August 2025 during the 80th UN General Assembly. 

He currently serves as the Chair of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union’s (CTU) Caribbean Taskforce on AI, charged with writing harmonized AI policies, recommendations and guidelines for the Caribbean nations, a member of the CARICOM’s Security Strategy Steering Committee, as an advisor to the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) on regional AI education policy matters, as an expert on the UNDP+CARICOM’s joint regional AI programme 2026-2030, as an expert on ECLAC’s National AI Agenda’s for SIDS and as a member of the eLAC’s Caribbean AI working group toward fulfilling the eLAC2026 Agenda. 

Previously, he lent his expertise to the development Singapore’s National AI Research and Development Plan, served on the Caribbean Development Bank’s technical subcommittee on IRC/RDA, collaborated with CARICOM IMPACS on the regionally adopted Autonomous Weapon Systems Declaration, served as a lead on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Global Initiative on the Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems 2.0, acted as a regional coordinator for open data strategy development across Caribbean nations in partnership with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and NASA.

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    UWI St Augustine
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    Executive Director, Artificial Intelligence Innovation Centre
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