Speaker Bio
Vilas Dhar, President and Trustee, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Vilas Dhar is a global expert on artificial intelligence (AI) policy and a champion for equity in a tech-driven world. He serves as President and Trustee of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, a $1.5 billion philanthropy advancing AI and data solutions for a sustainable and equitable future.
Appointed by Secretary-General António Guterres to the UN High-Level Advisory Body on AI, Vilas is also the U.S. Government Nominated Expert to the Global Partnership on AI. He serves on the OECD Expert Working Group on AI Futures, the Global Future Council on AI at the World Economic Forum, and Stanford's Advisory Council on Human-Centered AI. He is Chair of the Center for Trustworthy Technology. His LinkedIn Learning course, Ethics in the Age of Generative AI, is the most-viewed AI ethics course globally, reaching over 300,000 learners.
Vilas holds a J.D. from NYU School of Law, an M.P.A. from Harvard Kennedy School, and dual Bachelor's degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Illinois.