Mentors

Michael Dukakis
Michael Dukakis
Mentor of the AIWS Innovation Network - Chairman of The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation
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As Co-Founder and Chairman of The Board of Directors and Board of Thinker of The Boston Global Forum, Michael Stanley Dukakis culminates a half-century career dedicated to public service, political leadership, fostering the careers of young leaders, and scholarly achievement.
Democratic Party Nominee for President of the United States, 1988
Vint Cerf
Vint Cerf
Mentor of the AIWS Innovation Network - World Leader in AI World Society Award
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Vinton G. Cerf has served as vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google since October 2005. In this role, he is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies to support the development of advanced, Internet-based products and services from Google. He is also an active public face for Google in the Internet world.
Vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google
Judea Pearl
Judea Pearl
Mentor of the AIWS Innovation Network - World Leader in AI World Society Award
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Professor Judea Pearl is a Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles. He is a leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Pearl invented Bayesian networks, presenting a thoroughgoing calculus of probabilistic inference in a book and an important series of papers in the 1980s
Professor of Computer Science at University of California
Alex Sandy Pentland
Alex Sandy Pentland
Mentor of the AIWS Innovation Network - Co-founder of The Social Contract 2020
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Professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland directs the MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics labs and previously helped create and direct the MIT Media Lab and the Media Lab Asia in India. He is one of the most-cited scientists in the world, and Forbes recently declared him one of the “7 most powerful data scientists in the world” along with Google founders and the Chief Technical Officer of the United States
Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program Director
Randall Davis
Randall Davis
Associate Director of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (1993-1998)
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He has been a Full Professor in the Department since 1989. He has served as Associate Director of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (1993-1998), as a Research Director of CSAIL from 2003-2007, and as Associate Director of CSAIL from 2012-2014.
Joseph Nye
Joseph Nye
Mentor of the AIWS Innovation Network - former Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
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Joseph S. Nye Jr., is an American political scientist  and former Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard Univesity.He currently holds the position of  University Distinguished Service Professor.
Vaira Vike-Freiberga
Vaira Vike-Freiberga
Mentor of the AIWS Innovation Network - President of the Club of Madrid
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Dr. Vaira Vike-Freiberga has been the President of the World Leadership Aliance Club of Madrid since 2014  and is former President of Latvia (1999-2007)
President of the World Leadership Aliance Club of Madrid since 2014 , Former President of Latvia (1999-2007)
Thomas Patterson
Thomas Patterson
Mentor of the AIWS Innovation Network - Co-Founder and Member of Board of Directors, Boston Global Forum
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Thomas E. Patterson is Co-Founder and Member of Board of Directors, Boston Global Forum, and Research Director of The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation
Research Director of The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation
David Silbersweig
David Silbersweig
Mentor of the AIWS Innovation Network - Co-founder of AIWS Innovation Network
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Dr. David Silbersweig is a neurologist and psychiatrist, having trained in both psychiatry and neurology at The New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center Dr. He is now the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Brigham and Women’s/Faulkner Hospitals, and also Chairman of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Institute for the Neurosciences. Dr. David Silberswei is Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Neurologist and psychiatrist
Nazli Choucri
Nazli Choucri
Mentor of the AIWS Innovation Network - Member of Boston Global Forum’s Board of Thinkers
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Nazli Choucri is Professor of Political Science of MIT. Her work is in the area of international relations, most notably on sources and consequences of international conflict and violence. Professor Choucri is the architect and Director of the Global System for Sustainable Development (GSSD), a multi-lingual web-based knowledge networking system focusing on the multi-dimensionality of sustainability
Co-founder, member of GC Development Council & Global Citizenship Educators at Global Citizenship Education Network
Nguyen Anh Tuan
Nguyen Anh Tuan
Mentor of the AIWS Innovation Network - Co-Founder, and Chief Executive Officer of The Boston Global Forum, Director of The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation
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Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan is co-founder and Director of The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI), and co-founder and CEO of The Boston Global Forum (BGF).
Founder and Chairman of the VietNamNet Media Group and the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of VietNamNet
Ichiro Fujisaki
Ichiro Fujisaki
Mentor of the AIWS Innovation Network - President of the America-Japan Society, Inc.
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Ichiro Fujisaki is currently President of America-Japan Society in Japan. He is also a distinguished professor of Sophia University and Keio University, both in Tokyo. Additionally, he is advisor to the metropolitan city of Tokyo.
Ambassador of Japan to the United States of America (2008-2012)
Yasuhide Nakayama
Yasuhide Nakayama
Mentor of the AIWS Innovation Network
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Yasuhide Nakayama is a Japanese politician representing the Liberal Democratic Party, elected in December 2012 as a member of the House of Representatives of Japan and was re-elected in the December 2015 and 2017 elections. Mr Nakayama is the current State Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Japanese cabinet
State Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Japanese cabinet
Dr. Zlatko Lagumdžija
Dr. Zlatko Lagumdžija
Mentor of the AIWS Innovation Network - Former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Over 30 years of top academic and political experience including senior level functions in the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina as the Prime Minister and Acting Prime Minister, two times as Deputy Prime Minister and two times as Minister of Foreign Affairs, six times elected Member of the Parliament and leader of the largest multi-ethnic political party in the country in various periods between 1992 and 2015.