Founder. Researcher. Speaker.
“AI without governance is like a car without brakes: powerful but dangerous. It’s our duty to install the moral compass.”
Dr. Karim Ginena is CEO & Co-founder of EndoMD Health, founder of RAI Audit, and Co-chair of the IEEE’s AI policy committee. With over 16 years of experience at the intersection of ethics, governance, and emerging technology, Dr. Ginena has built a career advancing responsible innovation across industry and academia.
Before founding EndoMD Health, he led AI fairness user research at Meta, where he was the founding user experience researcher on the Responsible AI (RAI) team. At Meta, he helped scale AI fairness initiatives company-wide, strengthened RAI frameworks and risk assessment processes, and contributed to racial justice and inclusive AI design efforts. His work informed Meta’s Fairness Flow tool, RAI playbooks, and cross-functional strategies involving product, legal, policy, civil rights, and data science teams.
Dr. Ginena has also served as a consultant to global organizations such as Spotify and Colgate-Palmolive, and currently advises BABL AI as an AI Governance expert. His insights have been featured in talks and panels hosted by The White House, Roche, Salesforce, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Hook Studios, the University of Virginia, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the World Innovation Summit for Education.
He holds a Ph.D. in Management (Ethics and Organizational Behavior) from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, and has worked across sectors including healthcare, technology, banking, logistics, and higher education research.
Dr. Ginena’s academic work has earned multiple distinctions, including:
Best Dissertation-Based Paper Award, Academy of Management
Top 3 Finalist, Society of Business Ethics Best Dissertation Award
Emerging Scholar, Society of Business Ethics
Young Policy Professional, Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy