People
The people of AI Commons
AI Commons is a distributed community. Some people build and steward the organization. Others helped start it. Many more are working across the ecosystem on the problems AI Commons exists to address.
Core stewards
Building the commons.
The core team responsible for AI Commons' direction, operations, and day-to-day work.
Ambassadors
Supporting the commons.
Supporting team members and ambassadors for AI Commons.
Founding Members & Initiators
Those who started the conversation.
The individuals who helped found AI Commons and shaped its earliest direction, convening the first discussions about AI as shared infrastructure.
Yoshua Bengio
Professor
University of Montreal
Stuart Russell
Professor of Computer Science
University of California
Vilas Dhar
President
The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Stefan Germann
CEO
Fondation Botnar
Konstantinos Karachalios
Managing Director
IEEE Standards Association
Francesca Rossi
AI Ethics Global Leader
IBM
Community
Governance & Policy
Audrey Plonk
Head of Division - Digital Economy Policy
OECD
Karine Perset
Head, OECD.ai
OECD
Jamie Berryhill
AI Policy Analyst
OECD
Frederic Werner
Head of Strategic Engagement
International Telecommunication Union
Chaesub Lee
Director of Telecom Standard Bureau
International Telecommunication Union
Vincenzo Aquaro
Chief Digital Government - Division of Public Institutions and Digital Government
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Sasha Rubel
Head of AI, Public Policy, Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Eileen Donahoe
Executive Director Stanford Global Digital Policy Incubator
Stanford University
Maria Axente
Head of AI Public Policy and Ethics
PwC UK
Sebastian Hallensleben
Head of Digitalisation and AI
VDE Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationtechnik
Community
Research & Academia
Timnit Gebru
Founder & Executive Director
The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)
Pascale Fung
Chair Professor, Director of the Centre for AI Research (CAiRE)
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Yann Lecun
VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta
Georgina Curto
Responsible AI Research
University of Notre Dame
Risto Miikkulainen
Associate Vice President, Evolutionary AI
Cognizant
Zoubin Ghahremani
Professor of Information Engineering
University of Cambridge
Urs Gasser
Professor of Public Policy, Governance, and Innovative Technology
Technical University of Munich
Jonnie Penn
Associate Teaching Professor of AI Ethics and Society
University of Cambridge
Wendell Wallach
Emeritus Chair Technology and Ethics Research Group
Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
Ramesh Raskar
Community
Responsible AI & Industry
Thomas Wolf
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer
Hugging Face
Joelle Pineau
VP, AI Research
Meta
Esteban Arcaute
Technical Lead for Responsible AI
Meta
Joaquin Quiñonero Candela
Technical Fellow for AI
Babak Hodjat
Chief Technology Officer AI
Cognizant
Manuela Veloso
Head, AI Research
JP Morgan Chase
Nicolas Miailhe
Founder & President
The Future Society
Community
Philanthropy & Civil Society
Tanya Perelmuter
Director of Strategy - Co-Founder
Foundation Abeona
Natalie St-Pierre
President
SDG Capital Corporation
Jumanne Rajabu
Chief Executive Officer
Sahara Ventures
Kenny Chen
Executive Director
Chenco Holdings
Sarah Coleporter
Founder
InspiredMinds!
Benjamin Bollman
CEO • Consul of Switzerland
Swissnex
Ania Calderon
Managing Director
Data & Society Research Institute
Stephen Ibaraki
Founder & Chair Outreach
UN International Telecommunication Union
