Advisory Board Chair, King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence - Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
About us
The King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence is committed to the central principles of the King’s Strategic Vision 2029 : making the world a better place. AI, used wisely, can help tackle the grand challenges the world is facing today, whether in healthcare, global security, or the environment.
The Institute works to provide the networks, platforms and tools that King’s and wider AI community need to achieve this, bringing together King’s AI experts from across disciplines, as well as collaborators and partners from other universities, industry, government, and civic society.
Our priorities are to:
* Support King’s to respond to global challenges through academic excellence with innovation and impact by proactively driving interdisciplinary research development, community coordination, and ways of working
* Equip King’s research communities to do research in, for, and with AI well
* Enable fuller leveraging of King’s research expertise for real-world impact including policy development and regulation
For more information about the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence, please visit kcl.ac.uk/ai
About the role
King’s College London seeks to appoint an individual with a strong public profile, established and influential networks, and experience of fulfilling roles of national significance in an AI context to establish and chair an advisory board for the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
This new board, and its chair, will contribute to positioning King’s as a globally recognised thought-leader in AI research and policy. The successful candidate will bridge academia, industry and policymakers, leveraging high-level networks to elevate the Institute's external profile and impact.
This will be a 0.2FTE role offered on a fixed term basis for an initial term of 3 years.
This is a part time post (7 hours per week), and you will be offered an a fixed term contract until 16 January 2029.