Meet The Team

The Ethical AI Alliance is a mission-driven organization supported by a transdisciplinary team working across regions and sectors. The team brings experience from technology, governance, policy, research, and design, and is structured to support applied work on AI governance, human rights, and accountability. The Founder provides overall direction, the Core Team supports day-to-day work, and the Advisory Council offers strategic guidance

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Asma Derja is the founder of the Ethical AI Alliance. With over 15 years of experience across technology, strategy, and institutional transformation, her work focuses on AI governance through a human rights and rights-based lens. It is informed by direct experience inside complex institutions and sustained engagement with how governance frameworks operate in practice.

Of Moroccan and Tunisian background and a naturalized German, she brings a pluralist perspective shaped by lived experience across cultures, jurisdictions, and political contexts. Her approach to ethics is explicitly applied and centers on how decisions are made, how responsibility is allocated, and how harm, accountability, and access to remedy materialize in real-world systems.

She convenes a transdisciplinary, volunteer-led community of practitioners, researchers, and civil society actors working on applied AI governance and human rights. Alongside her work with the Alliance, she is a keynote speaker and guest lecturer engaging institutions, practitioners, and learners on AI governance, human rights, and systemic responsibility. Her training in management at ESCP Business School informs her focus on organizational incentives, decision-making, and accountability structures.

Spain

Asma Derja

Core Contributors

Sidrah Hassan

United Kingdom

Sidrah Hassan is an AI ethicist with experience leading AI governance and ethics efforts across multiple sectors. Her work focuses on responsible AI deployment and governance frameworks. At the Ethical AI Alliance, she contributes to ethics and governance work across programs.

Rebecca Y. Gonzales

USA

Rebecca Y. Gonzales is an executive advisor in AI and emerging technologies. She has devoted the last seven years to responsible technology advising enterprise customers on how to enable advanced technologies respecting human rights and dignity while mitigating bias and reducing harm. Her passion is empowering and enabling others to leverage AI for positive change.

Vicente Raimundo Núñez-Flores is a specialist in international cooperation with experience spanning AI ethics, policy, and institutional practice. On the Advisory Council of the Ethical AI Alliance, he advises on ethical frameworks and the alignment of AI initiatives with public-interest and human-centered principles.

Jumleena is a designer and researcher focused on ethical AI, participatory design, and futures-oriented inquiry. Her work centers on data visualization and collective sense-making around AI harms. At the Ethical AI Alliance, she supports the AI Harm Map and related research initiatives.

India

Jumleena

Dominika

Poland

Focus on researching cases for the AI harm map, building accountability mechanisms and monitoring frameworks that move beyond compliance to impose real constraints on harmful AI deployment.

Ayoub Samadi

Vikram Subramanian

Sweden

Vikram is a software engineer with over two decades of experience working in large technology organizations. His work focuses on the ethical and human rights implications of large-scale AI and cloud infrastructure deployment. At the Ethical AI Alliance, he contributes to research and accountability work related to AI harms and institutional responsibility.

Ellen Judson

United Kingdom

Ellen is a tech policy specialist with experience in civil society work on digital regulation in the UK and EU. Her work focuses on online safety, disinformation, and online violence. At the Ethical AI Alliance, she contributes policy and regulatory expertise.

Tommaso Ferracina

Italy

Tommaso is a researcher with an interest in open-source technologies and emerging risks in AI systems. His work focuses on understanding technical and societal risks across software and hardware ecosystems. At the Ethical AI Alliance, he contributes to research on AI risks and open governance approaches.

Advisory Council

(Advisory Council members provide strategic guidance on a voluntary basis.)

(All Core Team members contribute on a volunteer basis)

Vicente Raimundo Núñez-Flores

Richard Whitt is a technology policy expert and attorney with extensive experience in internet governance and public-interest digital infrastructure. As an Advisory Council member, he provides strategic guidance on AI governance, accountability, and long-term policy alignment.

Madrid, Spain

James Wilson

United Kingdom

James Wilson is an AI ethicist and architect focused on translating ethical principles into practical system design and deployment decisions. On the Advisory Council of the Ethical AI Alliance, he advises on applied AI ethics, risk-aware architecture, and safeguarding considerations.

Focus on researching cases for the AI harm map, building accountability mechanisms and monitoring frameworks that move beyond compliance to impose real constraints on harmful AI deployment.

Kiera Kaur

Canada

Kira Kaur is an ethics and AI governance advisor with a background in law and hands-on experience building AI products. Her work focuses on translating AI regulation, ethics, and risk frameworks into practices that engineering and product teams can operationalize. At the Ethical AI Alliance, she supports applied governance and implementation-focused work.

Monem

Germany

Mohamed Abdelmonem is a software engineer with over ten years of experience across telecommunications and e-commerce systems. His work focuses on building and maintaining large-scale technical infrastructure, with attention to its social and institutional impacts. At the Ethical AI Alliance, he contributes technical expertise and supports initiatives at the intersection of technology, democracy, and education.

Islem Rekik

Tunisia

Islem Rekik is the founder and director of BASIRA Lab and an associate professor working at the intersection of AI, neuroscience, and medical imaging. As a member of the Advisory Council of the Ethical AI Alliance, she provides guidance on responsible AI research, capacity building, and resource-efficient model development in global contexts.

Richard Whitt

California, United States

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Monet Goode

Emmet Marsh

Eleanor Parks

Karl Holland

Jaya Dixon

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