International bodies
Denise Pires de Carvalho
Assistant Director-General for Sciences
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) · International organisations (OECD, UNESCO, UN, G7, ISO)
Role in AI policy
Heads UNESCO's Sciences Sector, which the Director-General formed under the UNESCO80 reform by merging the former Natural Sciences and Social and Human Sciences Sectors. UNESCO's sector page lists among its divisions one for Ethics, Research and Technology, the area that carries UNESCO's work on the ethics of AI, and the Sciences pages feature an AI ethics and governance observatory. She was appointed by Director-General Khaled El-Enany. A UNESCO announcement on 50 emerging leaders chosen for a dialogue programme on the age of AI carries her name.