Researcher. Author. 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 the founder of RAI Audit, an AI governance and research consultancy, and co-vice chair of the IEEE’s AI policy committee. With 16 years of experience working in ethics and governance spanning both industry and academia, Dr. Ginena most recently led AI fairness user research at Meta and was the founding user experience researcher of Meta’s Responsible AI team. He has consulted for large public companies, such as Spotify and Colgate-Palmolive, and is frequently invited to speak on AI governance. Most recently he spoke at 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. Dr. Ginena is a certified AI and Algorithm Auditor and serves as an AI Governance advisor for BABL AI.
At Meta, Dr. Ginena’s work helped the company’s RAI team scale AI fairness products across the company, enhanced the team’s processes and frameworks, and contributed to racial justice efforts. He has conducted studies to understand people’s mindsets, experiences, and concerns relating to AI-driven products. He has also worked on Meta’s tool for assessing AI fairness (Fairness Flow), RAI frameworks and playbooks for AI risk assessment, and strategies for roll-out plans. He has collaborated with product, legal, policy, civil rights, engineering, data science, DEI, responsible innovation, comms, and other functions across Meta to land product impact.
Dr. Ginena holds a Ph.D. in management (ethics and organizational behavior) from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, and has worked in a number of sectors including, social media/IT, banking, logistics, and higher ed research. Dr. Ginena has been named:
Winner of the Academy of Management’s Best Dissertation-Based Paper Award
Top 3 finalist for the Society of Business Ethics Best Dissertation Award
Emerging Scholar by the Society of Business Ethics
Young Policy Professional by Harvard Law Schools’ Institute for Global Law and Policy