Manail Anis Ahmed is a committed educator in emerging technologies—including AI, biotechnology, and their impact on business and society. She has worked to build educational institutions and human capital development strategies in the Middle East and South Asia for two decades. Manail is a former Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University and now teaches Biotechnology Entrepreneurship at Johns Hopkins University.

Manail has led a global research group at the Center for AI & Digital Policy in Washington, D.C., 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 convergence on global business and society.