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Challenge Judges

We gathered prominent industry experts on inclusive growth, economic empowerment, and the impact of new AI solutions, to review Challenge applications.

Vilas Dhar is an artificial intelligence (AI) policy expert, technology and philanthropic executive, and a champion for equity in a tech-enabled world. He serves as President and Trustee of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, a 21st-century $1.5 billion philanthropy advancing AI and data solutions to create a thriving and sustainable future for all.  

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Raghu Dharmaraju

Chief Executive Officer

ARTPARK @ IISc

Raghu Dharmaraju, CEO of ARTPARK at IISc, has over two decades of experience in building and scaling innovations and institutions for impact. He is a Fellow of the Lancet Commission for Reimagining India’s Health Systems. ARTPARK, a double winner of the Global Grand Challenge for Catalyzing Equitable AI by BMGF,…

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Anna Makanju

Vice President of Global Affairs

OpenAI

Anna Makanju is OpenAI’s Vice President of Global Affairs, leading the company’s policy and engagement strategy.

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Amen Ra Mashariki, Ph.D.

Director of AI and Data Strategies

Bezos Earth Fund

Dr. Amen Ra Mashariki is the Director of AI and Data Strategies at the Bezos Earth Fund, where he works to identify strategies and solutions that will help innovative organizations use AI efectively for on-the-ground impact.

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Neera Nundy is a Partner and Co-Founder of Dasra India, which started in 1999. As co-founder, Neera leads eco-system building initiatives and facilitates key partnerships with global leaders like Harvard University, Stanford University, and USAID to accelerate social impact.

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Navrina Singh

Founder and CEO

Credo AI

Navrina Singh is the Founder and CEO of Credo AI, an AI governance platform that empowers organizations to deliver and embed artificial intelligence responsibly by proactively measuring, monitoring, and managing AI risks.

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Challenge Reviewers

Members from our global data for social impact community are lending their expertise to evaluate the first round of Challenge proposals.

AI2AI Challenge Reviewers Map
NameOrganizationCountry
Abiodun EesuolaDataCampNigeria
Abraham IghoIndependentNigeria
Adah ParrisThe House of GriotsUnited Kingdom
Aditi KidambiIndependentAustralia
Aditya Patrick MosesDePaul UniversityUnited States
Agnes McFarlinIndependentUnited States
Aldrin LambonSecurity Bank CorporationPhilippines
Aleksandra AloricMicrosoft Development CenterSerbia
Alexandro PykaDataKindItaly
Alonna WilliamsIntuWorkUnited States
Amanda BizzinottoOmbuLabs Brazil
Amanda BrownUniversity of Texas at San AntonioUnited States
Amen Divine IkambaPitzer CollegeUnited States
Amy RussSynchrony FinancialUnited States
Anant KhuranaMastercardIndia
Anastasya SuhartoMastercardIndonesia
Anchit VijayakumarUniversity of TorontoCanada
Andrea CastroMexico
Andreas TzekasMastercardGreece
Angeline AkinyiKenya Coast National PolytechnicKenya
Antara VatsWadhwani AIIndia
Antonio BlackMontana Gold Management IncUnited States
Ariadne LatorreThe Mediation AssociatesUnited States
Ashley SomerevilleExtern ExternshipsUnited States
Atshaya SrinivasanUniversity of LiverpoolUnited Kingdom
Avijeet RanawatGeorgia TechUnited States
Ayush OzaAnmut ConsultingUnited Kingdom
Ayush JaiswalUniversity of BirminghamUnited Kingdom
Babak SigaroudiIndependentUnited States
Benjamin SenstIndependentGermany
Bhagyashree WaghaleUnited States
Blake FleischerEast West HospitalityUnited States
Bo YoonIndependentUnited States
Brandon WilsonMaryland New DirectionsUnited States
Brashon FordNational UniversityUnited States
Brian HuaGritstone BioUnited States
Bridget MoynihanMastercardCanada
Brock SauvageConcord USAUnited States
Buket MatMastercardTürkiye
Caiwei TanHong Kong
Carlos LimaBrazil
Chetna KhandelwalIndependentCanada
Chisom Chinedu-OnuohaIntegrated Africa PowerNigeria
Chizaram Richard OnukwuforStocks ClinicNigeria
Christian ArayaCentro de Apoyo EducativoCosta Rica
Christopher ChitimbwaIndependentZambia
Christy RajanFederated Co-operatives LimitedCanada
Christy LinMastercardUnited States
Cosmus MutukuGridirKenya
Cristian BaezUniminutoColombia
Cristine Calil KoresDataKindAustria
Dana Kathleen RedeñaThinking Machines Data SciencePhilippines
Daniel SilvaNational League of CitiesBrazil
Daniel KimOp.dataUnited States
Daniel CooperMastercardUnited States
David CunninghamWorkSafe VictoriaAustralia
David FurlowACS International SchoolsUnited Kingdom
Debajyoti DebnathSiemens Industry Inc.United States
Derek StringfellowAnother PlaceUnited States
Dhruv KhatriSymbiosis Institute of TechnologyIndia
Divya ChallaSiftUnited States
Doug DahlProUnitasUnited States
Dustin MarshallInnovation Lab, Consumer ReportsUnited States
Edmond WanIndependentMalaysia
Elham AliBeeck Center for Social Impact and InnovationUnited States
Ellwood MillerMerit AmericaUnited States
Emeri ZhangCVS HealthUnited States
Emma MckinleyNatWestUnited Kingdom
Enock MwesigwaEloquent DataUganda
Eric OulsterFarm Credit CanadaCanada
Erik AndersonEnvironmental Incentives, LLCUnited States
Esha PadmawarMastercardUnited States
Esther FernandesFields DataIndia
Evgeniy RiabenkoThe Trade DeskUnited Kingdom
Exaucé Luweh Adjim NgartiInriaFrance
Ezinne NnoliIndependentNigeria
Fahmina ParvejIslamic Relief WorldwideUnited Kingdom
Federica MengoAccentureItaly
Federico ScennaAESArgentina
Felipe MantillaIndependentCanada
Fnu AliyaNortheastern universityUnited States
Fotis ZapantisOperational Research SocietyGreece
Fredrick OmondiIndependentKenya
Funmito OdefemiOne Acre FundNigeria
Gaël LinkeuUQOCameroon
Garrett ImmanuelNational Heritage AcademiesUnited States
Gemma MirandaWorld BankUnited States
Gemma LenowitzSamvid VenturesUnited States
Geoffrey OrinaOSM KenyaKenya
Gildardo CernaDepartment of Veteran AffairsUnited States
Govind PatwariZX VenturesUnited Kingdom
Grace WanjikuAzubi AfricaKenya
Gurpratap SinghJPMCUnited States
Guzman VitarUruguay
Haiping YuanTelusUnited States
Hanisha UdhaniColumbia University Medical CenterUnited States
Harel WilnerMenthodaIsrael
Harwinder SinghMastercard AdvisorsUnited States
Hassan AjuloAfrican Institute for Mathematical Sciences RwandaAustralia
Hayden OutlawNorth Carolina State UniversityUnited States
Hien VoGSKUnited States
Hisham SharafIndependentEgypt
Holmes FinchBall State UniversityUnited States
Hyunwoo KimGAFS Co., Ltd.Japan
Ifenna MuonagolumTerra Academy for the ArtsNigeria
io flamentJnJ, R&D Data ScienceUnited States
Irtiza KaleemTeamup / Great LearningCanada
Iva TomovskaTechSoupGermany
Jafar AhmadiMcGill UniversityCanada
Jagjot BhardwajUnitedhealth GroupUnited States
James McGrathMastercardUnited States
Janak MakwanaMastercardAfghanistan
Janetoms AmondiZilla ClinicalsKenya
Jasmine ZypPace universityCanada
Jasmine NguyenLe WagonUnited States
Jelena PopovicMastercard Data & ServicesSerbia
Jeniffer MarigaProspect 33Kenya
Jeremy BarclayUS Department of AgricultureUnited States
Jia Jun GohHTXSingapore
Joaquin ArretxMelmacia LabSpain
John LenzMilliporeSigmaUnited States
John O’MalleyInternational Fellowship of Christians and JewsUnited States
John ToczekIndependentUnited States
Jord HanusMICROPOLE BELGIUMBelgium
Josephat SerembeZetech UniversityKenya
Judit Lopez ClementeITENESpain
Julia StammThe Futures Project; WSFR.AIFrance
Kara JiaRAND CorporationUnited States
Karl JaehnigDataKindUnited States
Kat ChuaWarner Bros. DiscoveryUnited States
Keerthi KoppoluIndependentUnited States
Kevin EnglertTrusted Media BrandsUnited States
Khushi ChauhanLloyd Institute of Engineering and TechnologyIndia
Kimberly WilsonMastercardUnited States
Kiranjot BhatiaE-health AfricaUnited States
Kristin PorterMDRCUnited States
Kyla Langotskyriskthinking.AICanada
Lasha GochiashviliIngersoll RandUnited States
Laura GiuliettiBlue Cross NCSwitzerland
Leonard SiegertGermany
Lidianne Hamaguti JardimMastercardUnited States
Lindsay EziashiUnited States
Lindsey WashburnAI Governance Group United States
Lindsey YuBank of AmericaUnited States
LJ PerchittiDatadogUnited States
Luca RealiJohns Hopkins UniversityUnited States
Lucas Peinado BruscatoTinkaSweden
Luke MilnerMoonpigUnited Kingdom
Manju ManiMastercardUnited States
Marlene AmorimUniversity of AveiroPortugal
Martha Klenam TsagliWomen In AIGhana
Martin TerzanoDelveSpain
Matthew OsadebamwenResolute HealthcareUnited Kingdom
Mauli DalalVirginia Commonwealth UniversityUnited States
Max Ashton-LelliottRegGenomeUnited Kingdom
Miguel Ángel CuéllarDespacioColombia
Miruna CotetOhio State UniversityUnited States
Mohamed ElashmonyKhalifa UniversityUnited Arab Emirates
Mohammad FaizAgriculture and Agri-Food CanadaCanada
Mohammed Shaker MaraghyVirginia TechEgypt
Mohammed AlrezqMinistry of HealthUnited States
Monisha MastercardIndia
Mufid AlkhamamiTradinos.com / Lemonilab.comSyria Arab Republic
Muhammad AmaanThe Light AcademyPakistan
Muhammad IzharKhyber Pakhtunkhwa Board of Technical Education (KP BTE)Pakistan
Muhammad RaeesMirpur University of Science and TechnologyPakistan
Musonda KatongoZESCOZambia
Myles WalkerMWFW Solutions LLCUnited States
Natalie AnPHD mediaUnited Kingdom
Nayelly ZuritaENSIGN CollegeUnited States
Ncumisa NgxafaneMastercardSouth Africa
Neal FultzE-health AfricaUnited States
Negar EbrahimiIndependentIran
Nehal DesaiCivicActionsUnited States
Nethmi de SilvaUniversity of Ruhuna, Sri LankaSri Lanka
Nikhar ShahLPL FinancialUnited States
Nikitha NarendraGeorgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States
Niveatha ManickavasagamIndependentIndia
Novera NasaPotsdam UnivesitätAfghanistan
Olufunke IgbedeQueen’s UniversityCanada
Olusola AfuwapeunilagNigeria
Özgenur KorluSolidatariteTürkiye
Paaras KantariaMastercardUnited Kingdom
Parvez KhanMastercardIndia
Patricia GestosoGestoso ConsultingUnited Kingdom
Paul PankrazAmazonUnited States
Paul Lhito LlanosPaul LlanosPhilippines
Peter KamauDataKindKenya
Philipp BrinckmannMastercardGermany
Prabhakar KrishnamurthyIndependentUnited States
Pranav ShuklaMasterCard (ACS)India
Rahila HashimE health AfricaNigeria
Rajesh BojjaScaleSingapore
Ram PrayagaAtalan Tech, Inc.United States
Ramona LiberoffWorld Resources InstituteGermany
Ravi KumarWorld BankUnited States
Richa JainIndependentCanada
Ritu KukrejaDrexel UniversityUnited States
Robin KiplangatFourbicKenya
Rodrigo BlaudtGFT TechnologiesBrazil
Ronald AinebyonaStanbicUganda
Ruchira SinghMastercardIndia
Rupam PriyaWynn Las VegasUnited States
Rusdianto MahmudFirst Point GroupUnited States
Rut VyasUniversity of PennsylvaniaUnited States
Ryan GehlIndependentUnited States
Ryan WilsonHanover ResearchUnited States
Saaondo NyagaNew Vision Institute of TechnologyNigeria
Sahana KrishnarajUniversity of VirginiaUnited States
Sai Poojitha BattulaCalifornia State University, NorthridgeUnited States
Samran AhmedVirtual University of PakistanPakistan
Samta JainMastercard AdvisorsIndia
Saomya Srishti HoroCargill Business ServicesIndia
Sara RoldanUnited States
Sarah EmeUniversity of SalfordUnited Kingdom
Shanti AgungDataKindUnited States
Sharadwata GanguliMSDIndia
Sharon Ying Man ChanMastercard D&S Marketing ServicesUnited States
Shayantu Sinha RoyMastercardIndia
Shonelle PriceMastercardUnited States
Shota FurukawaKeio UniversityJapan
Sneha BaranwalAxtriaUnited States
Sofia MobleyAGCOUnited States
Sophia RootUCSFUnited States
Spurthi TallamGood InsideUnited States
Sri Siri JamiZidio DevelopmentIndia
Sridhar GanapathyArtha GlobalIndia
Sriram PenumatchaUniversity of MichiganUnited States
Stacey KiprutoConsolidated BankKenya
Stanley KipkelwonMoi UniversityKenya
Sujithra KathiravanUT DallasUnited States
Susana ContrerasGmbHGermany
Sushminder SinghIndependentCanada
Swathi AnnamalaiMortar LearningUnited States
Sylvia OnyangoJKUATKenya
Tania AgrawalMastercard AdvisorsIndia
Teodora NiculaeMastercard CanadaCanada
Thirumal SethusivaramMiebach ConsultingIndia
Thomas KoutsidisDataKindUnited States
Thomas WilseckThe Aspen GroupUnited States
Timothy KavumaPartners in HealthUganda
Tolga CaglarUniversity of California, San DiegoUnited States
Toni ChanResonyUnited Kingdom
Tridib DuttaAbsolute SecurityUnited States
Tyler ValentineJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryUnited States
Utkarsh MehrotraMastercardIndia
Vanessa DeweyThe Royal College of ArtUnited Kingdom
Vardhini SirlaCenturion UniversityIndia
Vasundhra DahiyaIndian Institute of Technology JodhpurIndia
Vats ShahASVA AIIndia
Veibha SubramaniamIndependentCanada
Victoria TruongUniversity of TorontoCanada
Vignesh DhanabalFedexUnited States
Vishal Singh ThakurCIBCCanada
William DwyerDataKindUnited States
William LuseUniversity of La VerneUnited States
Winnie MakWorkivaUnited States
Woon KimPublicisUnited States
Wyatte HooperRawson SaundersUnited States
Yatharth YThe Center for Internet & SocietyIndia
Yingying SunSing Tao Daily Western EditionUnited States
Yvonne MakenaMcKinsey & CompanyKenya
Zachary EsakofCarnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States
Zara KhanNew York Jobs CEO CouncilUnited States
Ze Yao KhorKing’s College LondonMalaysia
Zhe ChenUniversity of RochesterUnited States