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Build the knowledge and judgment to understand AI, its capabilities, its limitations, and the changes it is creating.
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Global AI Academy helps people understand artificial intelligence, build the capacity to use it with purpose, and play an active role in shaping what comes next.
About Us
Artificial intelligence is rapidly expanding what is possible. Its impact reaches far beyond technology, changing how we work, learn, create, lead, build organizations, and interact with one another.
Global AI Academy exists to help people, leaders, institutions, and organizations build the knowledge, judgment, connections, and confidence needed to navigate that future. Our purpose is to maximize the positive outcomes of AI adoption while reducing the risks of dependency, inequality, concentrated power, and loss of human agency.
Our Approach
Build the knowledge and judgment to understand AI, its capabilities, its limitations, and the changes it is creating.
Turn understanding into agency with the skills, tools, relationships, and confidence to use AI with purpose and participate in how it is adopted.
Apply that capacity to create positive outcomes for people, organizations, communities, and society as AI becomes part of everyday life.
Leadership
Global AI Academy is guided by leaders and advisors whose experience spans technology, finance, government, investment, law, ethics, entrepreneurship, and global affairs. Together, our Board, Trustees, and Advisors help guide the Academy's direction, protect its mission, and connect its work to the world it aims to serve.
Chairman of the Board
READ MOREChristopher Smith is a lifelong financier with senior involvement in IPOs and acquisitions around the world. With a background in advanced mathematics, accountancy, and corporate law, he advises family offices and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and is focused on responsible AI education and adoption.
Board Member
READ MOREChristopher Hinn is an international strategist, government advisor, and security executive with more than 50 years of experience across U.S.-Middle East relations, aviation, transportation, and counterterrorism. Appointed by President George W. Bush to the Senior Executive Service, he served in senior international and Middle East advisory roles at TSA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Board Member
READ MOREGiovanni Tomaselli brings more than 30 years of technology leadership in Asia and a decade in the United States. His career leading major development teams and his entrepreneurship experience, including being featured in a Harvard Business School case study, inform his focus on keeping humanity at the core of AI.
Board Member
READ MOREWilliam “Bill” McMurry, Co-Founder and CEO of W1 Global, is a former FBI leader specializing in international corruption, transnational crime, and financial investigations. He led landmark cases including 1MDB and Odebrecht and previously served as a U.S. Air Force officer and AFOSI Special Agent.
Board Member
READ MOREYasser Ibrahim is a globally experienced banking executive and strategic advisor focused on innovation, digital transformation, and the future of financial services. His leadership across major international institutions brings expertise in governance, cross-border strategy, and emerging business models.
Board Member
READ MORESameh El-Shahat is Co-Founder of Verityv Ecosystems and CEO of China-i (Huayu), with expertise in AI, unstructured data, and financial risk innovation. He has pioneered AI-driven methods for turning non-traditional risk signals into investment intelligence and has advised on more than $30 billion in transactions.
Board of Trustees Member
READ MOREMichael Mainelli is Chairman of Z/Yen Group and a former Lord Mayor of London. A scientist-turned-accountant, he has led innovations across mapping, finance, and technology while holding senior roles in academia, government, and industry.
Board of Trustees Member
READ MOREKarl Cramp is a serial entrepreneur with more than 40 years of experience across engineering, telecoms, financial services, and retail. He has founded and scaled national and online businesses, held numerous board roles, and now mentors investment ventures with a focus on ethical growth, innovation, and governance.
Advisor
READ MOREFr. Philip Larrey is a Catholic priest, philosopher, and theologian working at the intersection of faith, science, and technology. A professor at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, he advises Vatican initiatives on ethics and artificial intelligence and speaks globally on AI, human dignity, and the future of humanity.
Advisor
READ MORELeslie Wolfson is a board trustee and startup mentor with experience across entrepreneurship, technology, media, and investment. She supports founders, investors, and institutions through partnerships, growth strategy, and innovation in an AI-driven economy.
Advisor
READ MOREPeter Holden is Founder and Managing Partner of Dunworth Capital, with more than 30 years of experience in AI research, commercialization, and investment. He advocates for human-centered AI and supports initiatives spanning healthcare, ethics, mental health, and socially responsible technology.
Advisor
READ MOREWilliam Divine is an energy entrepreneur who built major oil ventures through self-taught expertise before turning his focus to clean-energy innovation. His companies and charities capture wasted flare gas and transform pollution into power and valuable products.
Advisor
READ MOREKouji Kodera is a wireless industry veteran with more than 20 years of leadership at Mitsubishi Electric, Sony Ericsson, HTC, and Motorola Mobility. He helped create products including Moto Z, HTC One, Xperia, Walkman, and Cybershot phones, and now leads i8 Labs in applying AI, computer vision, and smart sensor technology to new solutions.
Advisor
READ MOREEmily Jane Smith, LL.B., LL.M., is a cross-border legal professional and founder of Heniam & Associates, with experience in immigration, human rights, and international client representation between the UK and Spain. Her work brings a human-centered perspective to AI governance, including access to justice, automated decision-making, and responsible AI in legal and cross-border services.
Advisor
READ MOREMarshall Meyers is a veteran attorney and policy strategist with decades of experience in international law, regulatory affairs, animal welfare, and industry advocacy. He has advised trade associations, businesses, and global organizations on complex legislative and compliance matters.
Advisor
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Conferences & Events
Global AI Academy brings people together across technology, business, education, research, investment, policy, and society to explore the opportunities, questions, and responsibilities emerging around artificial intelligence.
ROME · CAMPO SANTO TEUTONICO
An invitation-only gathering of approximately 80 leaders, innovators, investors, and thinkers focused on how artificial intelligence can advance human potential while protecting agency, responsibility, and human values. With His Holiness the Pope attending, the Rome gathering marks an important expression of Global AI Academy’s Humanity First mission and its commitment to bringing cross-disciplinary dialogue into places of global influence.
AROUND THE WORLD
New Global AI Academy conferences and gatherings are in development. Join the email list to hear when new dates and locations are announced.
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Exciting things are coming in Q4 2026. Pre-register for upcoming Global AI Academy news, events, opportunities, and announcements.