effectivRAI Team

Nus is an expert in Responsible AI operations, with experience that spans business, tech and geopolitics. She previously led the enhancement of Incident Response Protocols at Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), which was founded by Facebook, Microsoft, YouTube and X (formerly Twitter, which exited in Sep 2024). In this role, she coordinated responses to terrorist and violent extremist attacks across 60+ countries, working with over 30 technology companies and 200+ global stakeholders.

Her work has involved international development, track-2 diplomacy, trust and safety, crisis response, education, business development and social science field surveys. She has served organizations such as the World Bank, Columbia Law School, UNICEF, India Institute, Harvard University, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Nusrat holds an MPA from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Kashmir. She has been recognized as an emerging leader by Morocco's Policy Center for the New South and by Germany’s Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit.

She has been published by Bloomsbury, Palgrave Macmillan, Taylor & Francis, and by Columbia Public Policy Review. She is also a contributor at Tech Policy Press.

Derek has been a management consultant since selling Linguateq, the telecom billing software company he founded, to SONUS Networks in 2002.  His five books and many articles evoke insights on leadership and risk. Before Linguateq, Derek had been a principal with the buyout firm of R. H. Missner & Co. Prior to that, he had been chief economist at ITI, the Information Technology Industry Council.

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He launched the Technology Management course at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business where he also taught strategy. He coauthored the MIT Press’ trilogy on the IT revolution and he is a founding editor of three enduring periodicals: The International Economy, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and International Security, the Harvard/MIT quarterly which is essential reading for global political risk analyses.

Derek holds a D.Phil. in political economy from Oxford University and was a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard’s Center for Science and International Affairs. He has an MIA from Columbia University and a BA from Vanderbilt. For ten years, he was a board member for Ascension, the largest U.S. nonprofit healthcare system.         

Michel is an information architect who helped transform the publishing industry into digital, and who codesigned the Topic Maps architecture (ISO/IEC 13250) which inspired Google’s Knowledge Graph. His pioneering work includes creating an architecture and production system for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service based on delivering dynamically single sources of truth for thousands of tax-related topics being maintained by IRS teams. He works on integrating heterogenous models and on studying the threshold for automation (Machine Learning) in contrast with human data curation—concluding that an empirical approach based on the specifics of enterprise integration is what works best. 

As a Professor at Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC), he created the first curriculum for engineers on Electronic Document Engineering, and, as a doctoral fellow, he designed computer programs concerning Einstein’s life and works—having published “Einstein’s Reception in Paris in 1922” in The Comparative Reception of Relativity. Recent presentations include “Navigating a Network Maze” at World Information Architecture Day.

Michel holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Université Paris Diderot, and a B.A. in Urban Planning from Université Paris 8.

His Excellency Ambassador Kah is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of The Republic of the Gambia to the Swiss confederation & Permanent Representative to the United Nations Organizations at Geneva (UNOG), to the World Trade Organization, and to other international organizations in Switzerland.

Before his appointment in 2020, he was Vice President for Academic Affairs/Provost at the American University of Nigeria, where he also served as Professor of Information Technology & Computing. 

He holds a BSc., MSc., and Ph.D. in Information Technology Management from Stevens Institute of Technology, and he has taught as well at the business schools of Rutgers, Howard, and George Washington universities, in addition to having been a Fellow (Non-Resident) at the University of Cambridge’s Judge School of Business.

He is the Chairman of the UN Commission on Science and Technology Development and, since 2021, a member of the Advisory Board of the UNCTAD Trade and Development Bureau.

Previously, he was Chairman of the Africa Group of Ambassadors at Geneva (April 2021- Sept. 2021),  Vice President (Africa) for the UN Human Rights Council (2022 and 2023),  and Chair of the World Intellectual Property (WIPO ) 9th & 10th Sessions on High -Level Conversation on IP and Frontier Technologies /AI.  Amb. Prof. Kah served as one of two ambassadors who were designated as Friends of the Chair of WIPO General Assembly and he serves as one of the organization’s Vice Chairs.

Previously he was Founding Dean, Chief Technology Officer, and Professor at American University of Nigeria (in conjunction with American University in Washington, D.C.) and subsequently as Vice Chancellor of the University of the Gambia, where he was also Professor of Information Technology & Communications.

He was on the Board of Trustees of The American University of Nigeria for over a decade and was a Founding Dean and Professor of IT and Communications at the School of Engineering and Information Technology and Vice Rector for Technology and Innovation at ADA University, Baku. 

Currently, he serves on the Board of Trustees of The African University of Science and Technology in Abuja, Nigeria and on the Board of Directors at the African Agriculture Technology Foundation in Nairobi, Kenya. He is a member of the Malabo Montpellier Panel and Visiting Professor (Non-resident), University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Previously, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of ACT Afrique Group, Dakar, Senegal. He is a founding Board member of The International Digital Health and AI Research Collaborative (I-DAIR) – Health AI and was Founding Board Chairman of Zenith Bank (the Gambia) for a dozen years.

Additionally, he has been Co-Facilitator of the UN Human Rights Council on Data and AI, New Technologies, Digital Divide and Human Rights of the UN Human Rights Council.

His other degrees include an MSc. in Finance from George Washington University and a Postgraduate Diploma (DipSI) in Strategy & Innovation from Oxford University’s Said Business School. He was awarded an Honorary Doctoral Degree- Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) by the University of The Gambia a year after he completed his tenure as Vice Chancellor of The University of The Gambia.

His latest book is Digital Technology 360 (2025), co-authored by Dr. Yale Li, previously Microsoft’s Principal Security Architect. Amb. Prof. Kah has written many peer-reviewed articles on technology, information systems, knowledge management, and on ICT for Development, and he has been honored with numerous awards for public service.

Eirliani specializes in Responsible AI operations as a Senior Fellow at Georgetown University, where she also works on Indigenous AI. She is concurrently a research affiliate at the University of Cambridge’s Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy. In December 2022, she was widely profiled for resigning from the Trust & Safety Council at X (formerly Twitter) to protest the meteoric rise in hate speech. Previously, she was  Program Director at the Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation US, founded by the Nobel Peace laureate. 

Formerly, Eirliani was a senior diplomat in the Singapore Foreign Service, serving as third-in-command in Berlin and Delhi.  

She holds a Doctorate in Public Health (DrPH) from Harvard University, a MSc. in public administration from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Economics and Politics from the University of Warwick. She was a Prajna Leadership Fellow at Harvard and a fellow at the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of Chatham House. She is a recipient of the BMW Foundation’s Responsible Leaders Award.

Eirliani has written several books including a memoir The Years of Forgetting (under the pseudonym “Sofia Abdullah”), which Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi described as “an act of courage.” The book was nominated for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize under the Creative Nonfiction category. She has authored opinion pieces and been published by inter alia Newsweek, Harvard Public Health, Chatham House, and the German Council on Foreign Relations. Eirliani loves rock climbing and enjoys exploring the Arctic on skis.

Nidhi works at the intersection of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, including explainability and large language models (LLMs), multimodal data analysis, and graph analytics, with applications in enterprise networks, autonomous vehicles, and domestic threats. She has held engineering positions at Verizon, GE Power, and IBM, as well as having served as a Research Scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).

The Cyber Risk Research Institute has recognized her among International Women in Cybersecurity. The New York Times, Information Security, HuffPost, and other publications have featured her work. She has been generously funded by NSF, Toyota, NSA, IBM, The Aspen Institute, and Cisco. She was the 2023 AI Fellow at the Aspen Institute.

Nidhi leads the AI4Sec Research Lab at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) where she is an assistant professor in the Department of Software Engineering. Her lab uses data-driven AI to protect infrastructures and people, and its AI solutions are designed for easy interpretability. She is also affiliated with the Global Cybersecurity Institute at RIT.

She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, with a focus on cybersecurity, and an MSc. in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati. Her papers during 2024 and 2025 include “CTIBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs in Cyber Threat Intelligence” and “Comprehensive Analysis of Consistency and Robustness of Machine Learning Models in Malware Detection.”

Jim founded Serve to Lead Group, which advises various sectors on strategic planning, regulatory compliance, financing, and negotiation. In government, he served as the founding secretary for environmental protection for the State of California; as the chief law enforcement officer of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; General Counsel of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management; and special counsel to the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. 

His books include Serve to Lead, Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership, Reagan on Leadership, and Disrupt Politics. He writes The New Nationalist at Substack, and he hosts the Serve to Lead podcast which features conversations with a range of thinkers and doers on major issues of the day.

Jim holds an A.B. from Harvard College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He was a captain in the U.S. Army Reserve-Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAGC).