Dr Rachel Adams

Honorary Research Associate

Dr. Rachel Adams is the Founder and CEO of the Global Centre on AI Governance (GCG), an Africa-based organisation advancing equitable AI governance worldwide. She leads the Global Index on Responsible AI and the African Observatory on Responsible AI.

Dr Adams is a Research Associate at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge and advises several expert panels, including UNESCO, the UN High-Level Advisory Panel on AI, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's AI Ethics and Safety Committee. Widely published in AI ethics and policy, her works include Transparency: New Trajectories in Law (2020), Human Rights and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in South Africa (2021), and The New Empire of AI (forthcoming, 2024). Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Nature, The Guardian, and more