Manail Anis Ahmed is an educator, thought leader and convener on technology and society. She has worked to build 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. Manail is a former Visiting Lecturer appointed to teach precepts in Technology Ethics. She has also designed and taught courses on Responsible AI for the Princeton Community Auditing Program. 

She leads a global research group at the Center for AI & Digital Policy in Washington DC and is a member of the Inclusive AI workstream for the World Economic Forum's AI Governance Alliance. She is also a Public Voices Fellow for Equality Now, advocating for the economic participation of women and girls globally. 

Manail has led the establishment of organizations and institutions for learning, research and scholarship. She has also architected government regulation, knowledge management infrastructure, and human capital development strategies for an entirely new global city and economic zone. She now brings this whole-systems approach to examining the impact of technology, especially AI, on both American as well as global business and society.