Poets & Thinkers

Manail Anis Ahmed is an educator, thought leader and convener on technology and society. She has built educational institutions and human capital development strategy in the Middle East and South Asia for two decades. She now advises global governments on digital public infrastructure and is a member of the World Economic Forum’s AI Governance Alliance. She has been a visiting lecturer at Princeton University, serving as project mentor for Responsible AI for Princeton graduate students. She is now adjunct faculty in Biotechnology Entrepreneurship at Johns Hopkins University. Manail has led a global research group at the Center for AI & Digital Policy in Washington DC and been a Public Voices Fellow for Equality Now, advocating for the economic participation of women and girls globally. 

She now brings this whole-systems approach to examining the impact of emerging technologies, especially AI and biotechnology, on global business and society.