Professor James Ong

Founder & Managing Director, Artificial Intelligence International Institute (AIII)

Dr. James Ong has 4 decades of industry, venture and academic experience. He founded Artificial Intelligence International Institute (AIII) in 2017, an AI think thank advocating Sustainable AI for Humanity. He is co-author of AI for Humanity (Wiley) and 人本人工智能 (中国人民大学出版社). He actively champions AI for Humanity as United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 18 (UN SDG 18) and advocates the AI for Humanity movement globally including Davos in Europe, United Nations, ASEAN, China, India, US, Middle East and ANZ. He is the International Advisor at the renowned World AI Conference (WAIC), founded the AI for Humanity Impact Forum and co-founded AICON, World’s #1 Consumer Show advocating “AI for Everyone”. James is also Adjunct Professor at SUTD and serves as Chair of Program Advisory Committee (PAC), School of Business, Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) on Master of AI for Business programme. He serves as Head of AI, Industry Fellow and Chair of AI and Finance Subcommittee at Global Fintech Institute (GFI), Singapore Champion and Exco of ASEAN CXO Association (ACXOA) Wisdom Council on AI and Robotics, Senior Fellow at The Conference Board (TCB), Expert Member of the UNESCO and UNU. He is CEO of Origami Frontiers, an AI for Humanity venture builder towards Autonomous Enterprise and a venture partner at Delight Capital. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin specializing in AI for Computational Governance.