Merve Hickok is the President and Policy Director at Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP), deeply engaged in global AI policy and regulatory work. CAIDP educates AI policy practitioners and advocates across 130 countries. She has provided testimony to the U.S. Congress, the Turkish National Assembly, the State of California, the New York City and the Detroit City councils.

In addition to her current role as Invited Advisor to GPAI Tokyo Expert Support Center, Merve provides AI policy expertise to the following organizations:

Lecturer @ University of Michigan, School of Information; Visiting AI Researcher, Henkaku Center - Chiba University of Technology; Council on Foreign Relations - Hitachi International Affairs Fellow; AI Expert @ OECD.AI; UNESCO AI Experts Without Borders, Council of Europe Committee on AI, EU AI Office Code of Practice Working Group.

Merve Hickok is also the founder of AIethicist.org. She is a globally renowned, award-winning expert on AI policy, ethics and governance. Her contributions and perspective have featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, CNN, Forbes, Bloomberg, Wired, Scientific American, The Atlantic, Politico, Protocol, Vox, The Economist and MIT Technology Review.