Prize Lead of the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE, and Chair of Programme Committee
| ![](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Philippe%20Beaudoin.jpg) Philippe Beaudoin VP Research Group and Co-Founder at Element AI [Canada] | ![Yoshua Bengio's photo](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Yoshua%20Benigio.jpg) Head of Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA), and Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms [Canada] | Senior Strategy and Policy Advisor at UNICRI |
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Nic BidwellProfessor at University of Namibia [Namibia] | ![Antoine Blondeau's Photo](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Antoine%20Blondeau.jpg) Co-Founder and Chairman of Sentient Technologies [USA] | ![](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Antoine%20Bordes.jpg) Antoine Bordes Senior Researcher at Facebook [USA]
| Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT and Director of the Personal Robots Group at MIT Media Lab [USA] |
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Lars Bromley Principal Analyst at UNOSAT | Paul BunjeChief Scientist at the XPRIZE Foundation [USA] | | Founder and CEO of Future Advocacy [UK] |
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Alexandre CadainCEO at Anima and co-lead of post-digital program at Ecole Normale Superieure
[USA] | ![Stephen Cave's photo](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Stephen%20Cave.jpg) Stephen Cave Executive Director of Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at University of Cambridge [UK] | ![Margaret Chan](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Dr-MChan86title-RGB-EN-V.jpg) Margaret Chan Director-General of World Health Organization (WHO) | President & CEO of Catronic Enterprise, and Board Chair at IEEE Computer Society [USA] |
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![](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Moustapha%20Cisseé.jpg) Moustapha Cissé Researcher at Facebook [USA] | Rene Clausen Nielsen Information Management Lead at IFRC | Head of Society and Innovation at World Economic Forum | Peter DiamandisFounder of XPRIZE Foundation(Video Message)[USA] |
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Member of the European Parliament, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Legal Affairs, Chair of the Working Group on robotics | ![Virgina Dignum Photo](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/vd2016.png) Virginia Dignum
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology [The Netherlands] | Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Washington [USA] | Chris Earney Deputy of UNHCR Innovation, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) |
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Sherif Elsayed-Ali Head of Technology and Human Rights, at Amnesty International | ![Katsumi Emura](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/MrEmura.png) Katsumi Emura Chair of Industrialization Roadmap Task Force, Strategic Council for AI Technology [Japan] | Ekkehard Ernst Chief of the Macroeconomic Policies and Jobs Unit, Research Department at International Labour Organization (ILO) | |
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| ![Urs Gasser Photo](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Urs%20Gasser.jpg) Executive Director of Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University [USA] | Igor van Gemert Founder/CEO, SIM-CI [USA] | Strategy Planning Consultant at Smart Dubai Office [UAE] |
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Staff Reseach Scientist at Google Brain [USA] | Kenneth Goodman Director of Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, and Co-Director of UM Ethics Programs at University of Miami (Remote) | Jamie Green Innovation Accelerator Projects Manager, WFP | |
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Founder and CEO of Hanson Robotics [USA] | ![Vicki Hanson Photo](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/vlh_HighRes.jpg) President of ACM, and Distinguished Professor of Computing at the Rochester Institute of Technology [USA] | ![Barmak Heshmat Photo](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/barmak%20face.jpg) Barmak Heshmat Research Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)[USA] | Director of Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and Right to Development, at OHCHR |
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Mike Hinchey President of IFIP, and Director of Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (Lero) [Australia] [Ireland] | ![](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Michael%20Hopkins.jpg) Michael Hopkins CEO of MHC International Ltd
| ![Eric Horvitz](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Eric%20Horvitz.jpg) Eric Horvitz Managing Director of Microsoft Research at Microsoft [USA] (Remote) | CEO of Optimal Agriculture |
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Ratika JainExecutive Director, Manufacturing, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) [India] | Malavika Jayaram Executive Director of Digital Asia Hub | Johanna Jochim Special Projects Manager at WFP | |
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Frederike Kaltheuner Policy Advisor on data innovation at Privacy International | Managing Director of IEEE Standards Association [USA] | ![Anja Kaspersen](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/passport%20photo%20Anja.jpg) Anja Kaspersen Head of Strategic Engagement and New Technologies, at ICRC | ![Elim Kay](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Elim%20Kay%20IMG_9616-Edit-cropped.jpg) Elim Kay CEO of the Kay Family Foundation [USA] |
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| ![](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Adam%20Klaptocz.jpg) Adam Klaptocz Co-founder and CTO of WeRobotics [Switzerland] | ![](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Komarneni-200.png) Jay Komarneni Founder & Chair of the Human Diagnosis Project at 'Human Dx' | Professor at the University of Minnesota [USA] |
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Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information at UNESCO | Apala Lahiri Chavan President of Human Factors International (Middle East, Asia, Africa and Australia) | Mark Latonero Lead researcher for the Data & Human Rights program at Data & Society [USA] | ![](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Chaesub_Lee-web-tsbdir.jpg) Director of Telecommunication Standardization Bureau at International Telecommunication Union |
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![](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Jong%20Gun%20Lee.jpg) Jong Gun Lee Data Scientist at UN Global Pulse | Corporate Vice President of Microsoft AI and Research at Microsoft [USA] | Fei-Fei Li Director of Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL), and Chief Scientist of AI at Google Cloud [USA] | Miguel Luengo-Oroz Chief Data Scientist at UN Global Pulse |
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Data Protection Commissioner's Office, Prime Minister’s Office of the Republic of Mauritius | Katherine MaherExecutive Director of Wikimedia Foundation [USA] | Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University [USA] | Peter Marx Vice President, Advanced Projects, at GE
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Director of Human Rights Centre at University of Essex [UK] | Sean McGregor Oregon State University
[USA] | ![](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Alex3_0.jpg) Alex Mejia Senior Manager at UNITAR | Olga Memedovic Chief, Europe and Central Asia Bureau, at UNIDO |
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Fengchun Miao Chief of ICT in Education at UNESCO | ![](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Molyneux.PNG) | Ahmed Motala Human Rights Officer at OHCHR | ![](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Robin_Murphy.jpg) Robin MurphyProfessor at Texas A&M University, and Founder of Roboticists Without Borders [USA] |
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![Rob Nail](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/rob-nail-headshot.jpg) Rob Nail CEO of Singularity University [USA] | Izumi Nakamitsu Under-Secretary General and High-Representative for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) | Executive Director of Lowes Innovation Lab [USA] | ![Mark Nelson's photo](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Mark%20Nelson.jpg) Mark R. Nelson Executive Director of Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) [USA] |
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Lydia NicholasSenior Researcher at Collective Intelligence Nesta [UK] | Director of Research at Google [USA] | ![Irmgard Nubler's photo](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Nubler.jpg) Irmgard Nübler Senior economist, Research Department at International Labour Organization (ILO) | Member of the UNESCO COMEST |
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Robert OppDirector of Innovation and Change Management at the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) | Marie-Hélène Parizeau Chair of UNESCO COMEST [Canada] | ![Lynne Parker Photo](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Lynne-Parker-2015.jpg) Professor at University of Tennessee-Knoxville [USA] | John Quinn Pulse Lab Kampala [Uganda] |
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Barry Ressler Chairman of the Board/CEO at International Space Medicine Consortium | ![Pablo Rodriguez](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/rodriguez.jpg) Pablo Rodriguez CEO of Telefonica Alpha [Spain] | Professor at University of Padova, and Research Scientist at IBM Watson [Italy] [USA] | Stuart Russell Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC-Berkeley, and Adjunct Professor of Neurological Surgery at UC-San Francisco [USA] |
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![Neil Sahota Photo](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Neil%20Sahota.jpg) Neil Sahota World Wide Business Development Leader at IBM Watson [USA] | Anders SandbergJames Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, at University of Oxford [UK] | Abha Saxena Coordinator of Global Health Ethics at WHO | ![Juergen Schmidhuber Photo](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Jurgen%20Schmidhuber.jpg) Scientific Director, Swiss AI Lab, IDSIA; Professor of AI, USI & SUPSI, Switzerland; President of NNAISENSE [Switzerland] |
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Secretary General of Amnesty International | CEO of the XPRIZE Foundation [USA] | Director of United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) | ![Rupert Stadler's photo](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Photo_Rupert%20Stadler_AUDI%20AG_A160948_large.jpg) CEO and Chairman of the Board of Management of AUDI AG [Germany] |
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Christian Steinruecken CTO of Invenia and King’s College, Cambridge | Director of Strategy, Data and Analytics at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [USA] | Louise Story New York Times
[USA] | Sven Strohband CTO of Khosla Ventures
[USA] |
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François Taddei Professor at Paris Descartes University [France] | Vice President, Global Impact Strategy at XPRIZE [USA] | Professor in Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, and Former President of AAAI [USA] | Consultant, Ethicist, and Scholar at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, and Senior Advisor to the Hastings Center, and the World Economic Forum |
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Professor at TU Berlin, and Executive Director of Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute [Germany] | Senior Director of Symantec Research Labs at Symantec [USA] | Christiane Woopen Professor of Ethics and Theory of Medicine at University of Cologne (Member of International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO) | Lan Xue Cheung Kong Chaired Professor and Dean of School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University |
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![Hongjiang Zhang](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/zhang.jpg) Head of ByteDance Technical Strategy Research Center [China] | ![Houlin Zhao](/en/ITU-T/AI/PublishingImages/Houlin_Zhao-web.jpg) Houlin Zhao Secretary General of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) | Leila Zia Senior Research Scientist at Wikimedia Foundation | Andrew Zolli Planet Labs (Remote) |
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Naroa Zurutuza Information Poverty Lead at UNICEF Innovation | | | |
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