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Anja Kaspersen
Anja Kaspersen is a director for Global Markets Development, Frontier and Critical Technologies at IEEE, a global charity and the world's largest technical professional organisation. Kaspersen is a former co-director and senior fellow at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs where she launched the Artificial Intelligence Equality Initiative with Wendell Wallach. With scholars and thinkers in the field of technology governance, supported by Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and IEEE, Kaspersen and Wallach, provided a Proposal for International governance of AI with concrete modalities for implementation. Kaspersen serves (in her personal capacity) as a member of the Interpol's Standing Committee on Ethical Matters Values and ethics, and in 2025 she was appointed as a member of the United Nations Multi-Stakeholder Working Group on Data Governance at All Levels Wayback Machine. She is an Executive in Residence at the NYU Stern School of Business. Events | Executive-in-Residence Panel featuring Ali Heron, Anja Kaspersen, Jordan Hoffner - NYU Stern and a Special Advisor on Digital Technologies, Equity, Peace and Democracy at the Kofi Annan Foundation. She is also affiliated with SWIFT Partners focusing on harnessing foresight to navigate knowns and unknowns in the field of AI.
Kaspersen is the former director of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs in Geneva and Deputy Secretary General of the Conference on Disarmament (UNODA). Previously, she held the role as the head of strategic engagement and new technologies at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Prior to joining the ICRC she served as a senior director for geopolitics and international security and a member of the executive committee at the World Economic Forum.
Kaspersen has also worked in business and has had a rich diplomatic and academic career. She is a published author, podcast host and a sought after public speaker and commentator on matters relating to geopolitics, international security, peacekeeping, arms control, multilateral diplomacy, emerging technology ethics, AI, cyber conflict, digital resilience and oceans security. She is world renowned for her mixed social science interdisciplinary approach and is a strong supporter of multilateralism and of the use of science and technology diplomacy to promote adaptive arms control, technology and AI governance, responsible innovation and responsible applications, along with multilateral and globally cooperative arrangements and standards.
Anja Kaspersen is an alumni International Gender Champion, a member of the International Telecommunication Union, AI for Good Global Summit's Programme Committee, a member of the IEEE Council on Extended Intelligence and Industry Activities on Ethics in Action in Autonomous and Intelligence Systems, Well-Being Initiative, Life Science Innovation and AI and member of the Council of the International Military Council on Climate and Security and the advisory board of ThinkTech.
Kaspersen was selected for several consecutive years as one of the leading female Voices in the field of AI and ethics and recognised among peers as a fierce advocate for women, diversity and interdisciplinarity. In 2024 she ranked among Norway's Top 50 Tech Women. Norges 50 fremste tech-kvinner 2024 Alle kårede tech-kvinner | Abelia. In 2019 and 2020 she was included in the "100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics list". As a diplomat for Norway, she led multiple efforts to harneessed strong recogntion for Norway to provide a leading Voice on matters related to integrated peace operations, alongside global partners, as well as being the lead Coordinator for Norways acceptance as a partner in ASEAN.
As a Norwegian diplomat, she has worked extensively on international security, integrated peace operations and regional affairs.
During her tenure in the Norwegian foreign service, she contributed to strengthening Norway's engagement with regional and multilateral institutions, including the ASEAN. Norway was accepted as a Sectoral Dialogue Partner at the 48th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Kuala Lumpur in August 2015, becoming the first European state to enter into such a formalised partnership.
The partnership has since been developed through agreed practical cooperation areas, successive action plans and regular political dialogue.
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Anja Kaspersen
Anja Kaspersen is a director for Global Markets Development, Frontier and Critical Technologies at IEEE, a global charity and the world's largest technical professional organisation. Kaspersen is a former co-director and senior fellow at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs where she launched the Artificial Intelligence Equality Initiative with Wendell Wallach. With scholars and thinkers in the field of technology governance, supported by Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and IEEE, Kaspersen and Wallach, provided a Proposal for International governance of AI with concrete modalities for implementation. Kaspersen serves (in her personal capacity) as a member of the Interpol's Standing Committee on Ethical Matters Values and ethics, and in 2025 she was appointed as a member of the United Nations Multi-Stakeholder Working Group on Data Governance at All Levels Wayback Machine. She is an Executive in Residence at the NYU Stern School of Business. Events | Executive-in-Residence Panel featuring Ali Heron, Anja Kaspersen, Jordan Hoffner - NYU Stern and a Special Advisor on Digital Technologies, Equity, Peace and Democracy at the Kofi Annan Foundation. She is also affiliated with SWIFT Partners focusing on harnessing foresight to navigate knowns and unknowns in the field of AI.
Kaspersen is the former director of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs in Geneva and Deputy Secretary General of the Conference on Disarmament (UNODA). Previously, she held the role as the head of strategic engagement and new technologies at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Prior to joining the ICRC she served as a senior director for geopolitics and international security and a member of the executive committee at the World Economic Forum.
Kaspersen has also worked in business and has had a rich diplomatic and academic career. She is a published author, podcast host and a sought after public speaker and commentator on matters relating to geopolitics, international security, peacekeeping, arms control, multilateral diplomacy, emerging technology ethics, AI, cyber conflict, digital resilience and oceans security. She is world renowned for her mixed social science interdisciplinary approach and is a strong supporter of multilateralism and of the use of science and technology diplomacy to promote adaptive arms control, technology and AI governance, responsible innovation and responsible applications, along with multilateral and globally cooperative arrangements and standards.
Anja Kaspersen is an alumni International Gender Champion, a member of the International Telecommunication Union, AI for Good Global Summit's Programme Committee, a member of the IEEE Council on Extended Intelligence and Industry Activities on Ethics in Action in Autonomous and Intelligence Systems, Well-Being Initiative, Life Science Innovation and AI and member of the Council of the International Military Council on Climate and Security and the advisory board of ThinkTech.
Kaspersen was selected for several consecutive years as one of the leading female Voices in the field of AI and ethics and recognised among peers as a fierce advocate for women, diversity and interdisciplinarity. In 2024 she ranked among Norway's Top 50 Tech Women. Norges 50 fremste tech-kvinner 2024 Alle kårede tech-kvinner | Abelia. In 2019 and 2020 she was included in the "100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics list". As a diplomat for Norway, she led multiple efforts to harneessed strong recogntion for Norway to provide a leading Voice on matters related to integrated peace operations, alongside global partners, as well as being the lead Coordinator for Norways acceptance as a partner in ASEAN.
As a Norwegian diplomat, she has worked extensively on international security, integrated peace operations and regional affairs.
During her tenure in the Norwegian foreign service, she contributed to strengthening Norway's engagement with regional and multilateral institutions, including the ASEAN. Norway was accepted as a Sectoral Dialogue Partner at the 48th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Kuala Lumpur in August 2015, becoming the first European state to enter into such a formalised partnership.
The partnership has since been developed through agreed practical cooperation areas, successive action plans and regular political dialogue.