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Executive Director of Globethics, international organization, which head office is in Geneva, Switzerland, working for ethical leadership through higher education and global engagement. Prof. Fadi Daou is Laureate of the Elevate Prize 2020 for Global thinkers and change-makers. Daou is a Policy advisor and Professor in geopolitics of religions, inclusive development, and peace. Having lead pioneer projects for countering online extremism, he now leads the engagement of Globethics in ethics of AI and emerging technologies, with the recent publication: Inclusive AI for a better future. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/fadidaou/ 

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Amanda is a lawyer and political scientist with experience in law & technology, public policy, and socio-technical research in AI. Her career is focused on bridging the gap between emerging technologies, the rule of law, and democracy. Her main research topics have been on policies and regulations to combat disinformation, digital and information literacy, AI accountability and transparency, responsible AI in the public sector, and the current challenges for ethics in the AI industry.

Dr Ricardo Baptista Leite is a Portuguese-Canadian medical doctor trained in infectious diseases with extensive experience in global health, health systems and science-based policymaking. Prior to his current role as CEO of 'HealthAI - The Global Agency for Responsible AI in Health' in Geneva, Dr. Ricardo served four terms as a Member of Parliament in Portugal on both health and foreign affairs committees. Ricardo is a city councillor in Sintra and previously served as Deputy Mayor of Cascais.

He is the founder and President of the 'UNITE Parliamentarians Network for Global Health', a network of current and former policymakers from 110 countries. With more than 15 years of academic experience, he is Chair of the Board of the Harvard-Charité Global Health Policy Lab, based in Berlin, and Chair of the Centre for Global Health at NOVA University Information Management and Data Science School in Lisbon. He completed postgraduate studies at Johns Hopkins University, Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Medical School. Previously, Dr Baptista Leite worked as a practising physician in the Portuguese National Health Service for several years, including an internship at the World Health Organization.

More recently, he served as a medical volunteer both during the COVID pandemic in his hometown hospital in Portugal for over a year and as part of a humanitarian mission at the Lviv Regional Hospital in Ukraine during the first summer after the beginning of the war.

Ashutosh is currently responsible for building partnerships with UN and other International organizations to enable the responsible use of technology through policy and programmatic interventions to advance the achievement of the sustainable Development goals and socio economic growth, enabling innovation ecosystems, inclusion and safety and security. 

Till recently he was the Director and Country Head Corporate Affairs and  Public Policy for India and South Asia at Microsoft. In his role, he worked closely with key audiences in the Government, Academia, Industry as well as Multilaterals to help frame policies which enable deepening of usage of technology, driving digital inclusion and growth as well as ensure innovation and safety of the digital ecosystem. . 

In a career spanning over 37 years, Ashutosh has worked at Mastercard, Wipro Ltd, Intel India,  Shell India Pvt Ltd, NIIT and the National Dairy Development Board. A Management graduate from the institute of Rural management of Anand Gujarat, Ashutosh has had extensive experience in Business Development, Channel Management, Strategic Planning and Corporate Affairs, Government Relations and Policy Advocacy.

Ashutosh is a regular speaker at National and International fora on topics ranging from Corporate Affairs, Public Policy, Education, CSR, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He has spoken at events hosted by WB, WTO, UNICEF, UNESCO as well as National and International Academic Institutions. 

Ashutosh is passionate about advocating the use of technology for socio economic development and improving lives through education, innovation, and entrepreneurship. 

Involved in mentoring startups, coaching students, and executives – Ashutosh is also a certified Level 2 NS-NLP Executive and Corporate Coach.

In his spare time Ashutosh loves to read, listen to music and travel. 

Mariagrazia Squicciarini is Chief of Executive Office and Director a.i. at the Social and Human Sciences Sector (SHS) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

At UNESCO, Mariagrazia supervises, coordinates, steers and helps advance policy-relevant work related to the social transformation, including the ethics of science and technology – in particular, of Artificial Intelligence; the youth; sport and antidoping; inclusion, antiracism and gender.

In the past, she has led and contributed policy relevant analysis related to the changing determinants of growth and productivity; the economics of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR); knowledge-based capital; global value chains; the digital transformation and AI; job and skill dynamics; and the digital gender divide.

Mariagrazia holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Essex (UK). Before joining UNESCO, Mariagrazia worked for more than ten years at the OECD Directorate for Science Technology and Innovation as Senior Economist – Head of Unit. Prior to joining the OECD, she had a number of appointments, including at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (FI), the University of Essex (UK) and the European Commission-Joint Research Centre (IPTS, ES).

She has published extensively and has been acting as a reviewer for international peer-review journals and governments.