Biographies

Shaz works as a consultant on strategic analysis and effective communication for public sector governance. She specialises in urban AI policy. She is also a PhD candidate analysing adaptive governance, tech policy and data protection in Singapore, as part of the Global Data Justice ERC research project, at the Tilburg Institute of Law and Technology. Most recently, she was a Principal Investigator for the AI & Cities collaboration between Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute and UN-Habitat, as well as with the Global Observatory on Urban AI on understanding accountability initiatives in urban AI. During her PhD, she discovered agile and has since become an advocate, always trying to find a way to introduce agile approaches as a way to enable effective communication.