# Sherif EA (@sherif.eurosky.social)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/sherif.eurosky.social
Headline: Working on tech and innovation for prosperity, people and planet.

## About

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## Experience

- **Co-chair, Global Council on the Future of Human Rights and Technology at World Economic Forum** (2018 – 2019)
  I co-led the Global Council, which brought together leading experts from the technology and human rights sectors to examine challenges and opportunities from emerging technologies.
- **Executive Director at Future of Technology Institute (FoTI)** (2024 – 2025)
- **Expert Working Group Member at AI for Decarbonisation’s Virtual Centre of Excellence (ADVICE)** (2024 – 2025)
- **Deputy Director - Global Issues at Amnesty International** (2013 – 2016)
  Responsible for Amnesty International's research, advocacy and campaigning on technology & human rights, refugee protection, and migrants' rights.
- **Director of Global Issues (acting) at Amnesty International** (2012 – 2013)
- **Deputy Director of Global Issues / Head of Refugee and Migrants' Rights at Amnesty International** (2010 – 2012)
- **Trustee at Africa and Middle East Refugee Assistance - UK** (2005 – 2011)
- **MPA candidate and Mason Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government** (2009 – 2010)
- **Co-Lead Eurosky at Eurosky** (2025 – present)
  Eurosky is a public-interest infrastructure project building shared European infrastructure that works across social media, search, news and e-commerce. Built on the Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATProto). It enables a decentralized social web in which individuals own their data and identity, businesses control their presence and brand safety, and algorithms are chosen by users.
- **Board Member at Modal Foundation** (2025 – present)
- **Senior Fellow at Future of Technology Institute (FoTI)** (2025 – present)
- **Investor at Oru Space** (2025 – present)
- **Secretariat at Industrial Decarbonization AI Coalition** (2024 – 2025)
- **Head of the Refugee and Migrants' Rights Team at Amnesty International** (2007 – 2009)
  • Managing the Refugee and Migrants’ Rights unit;
  • Leading the development of an integrated organization-wide strategy on refugee and migrants’ rights, including managing major global projects and advocacy initiatives;
  • Acting as a senior specialist adviser on refugee and migrants’ rights to the organization;
  • Leading an organizational consultation on the effect of climate change on human rights;
  • Developing and managing a program of high-quality research, leading research missions, training researchers and approving research reports;
  • Representing the organization as a senior advocate to governments, the United Nations and other organisations;
- **Co-Founder, Amnesty Tech at Amnesty International** (2015 – 2018)
  I co-founded and led Amnesty International's global technology and human rights program; oversaw a program of investigations on the impact of new and emerging technologies on human rights; set-up the organization's digital security lab and piloted the use of machine learning in human rights research.
- **Business Development Officer at Institute of Cultural Affairs** (2002 – 2003)
  Monitoring of development projects; reporting to donors; seeking new donors and sponsors.
- **Advisor at Africa Middle East Refugee Assistance** (2002 – 2002)
  Advice to asylum-seekers; representation during asylum procedures.
- **Co-Founder and CEO at Carbon Re** (2020 – 2023)
  We are Carbon Re, an industrial AI company spun out of Cambridge University and UCL.
  
  Our software solution, Delta Zero, pushes the boundaries of artificial intelligence, finally unlocking the potential of your data to achieve previously out-of-reach fuel efficiencies.
- **Fellow at Harvard Carr Center for Human Rights Policy** (2018 – 2019)
  I undertook research on challenging facing human rights and published a paper entitled "On the Future of Human Rights", which put forward three proposals:
  \1. putting climate change at the top of the human rights agenda;
  \2. significantly increasing the amount of work on Economic, Social and Cultural (ESC) rights undertaken by human rights advocacy and campaigning organizations, and
  \3. adopting a system-analysis and solutions-based approach to human rights.
- **Co-Founder at Nexus Climate** (2023 – present)
  The climate transition is the biggest investment opportunity of our time. We back visionary founders from across the world, addressing global challenges with a high relevance for the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region.
- **Custodian at Project Free Our Feeds** (2025 – 2025)
  Project Free Our Feeds is an ambitious initiative to free social media from billionaire control and create a new future for social media, that gives power and choice back to people.
  
  Free Our Feeds will establish a new, independent foundation to secure the future of social media with independent infrastructure and an ecosystem of innovation and applications on top of open technology.
- **Refugee Officer (Middle East and North Africa) at Amnesty International** (2003 – 2006)
  Research and advocacy on rights of refugees, IDPs and migrants in the Middle East and North Africa Region; field research in several countries; designing and conducting training workshops.
- **Eligibility Officer at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees** (2001 – 2001)
  Interviewing asylum-seekers and assessing cases.
- **Director, AI for Climate; Director of Partnerships, AI for Good at Element AI** (2018 – 2020)
  Set-up Element AI's AI for climate practice working on machine learning solutions with earth observation data for monitoring climate change signals and supporting decision-making; developed commercial offering combining operational improvement and machine learning techniques to reduce energy usage, GHG emissions and waste in manufacturing.
  
  Prior to that, led partnerships for the company's AI for Good division, working with a variety of public and private organizations on AI applications for the public benefit.

## Education

- **The American University in Cairo** (2000 – 2004)
- **The American University in Cairo** — Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) (1995 – 2000)
- **Harvard Kennedy School** — MPA (2009 – 2010)
- **Collège de la Sainte Famille**

## Skills

- Research
- Human Rights
- Start-up Leadership
- Capacity Building
- Leadership
- International Relations
- Public Policy
- Entrepreneurship
- Politics
- Start-up Ventures
- Digital Transformation
- Policy Analysis
- Management
- Strategy
- European Union
- Technological Innovation
- Strategic Planning
- Business Development
- Fundraising
- Grants
- Early-Stage Startups
- Community Outreach
- NGOs
- Climate Change Impacts
- Public Speaking
- Innovation Management
- Policy
- Community Development
- Intrapreneurship
- Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
- Government
- International Development

## Projects

- **Global Future Council on Human Rights - WEF** — https://www.weforum.org/communities/the-future-of-human-rights

## Publications

- How AI Can Help Manufacturers Achieve Sustainability Goals - ebook — Element AI (https://www.elementai.com/sustainability-goals-ebook)
- Building Sustainability and Resilience into the Post-Pandemic Recovery — Element AI (https://www.elementai.com/news/2020/building-sustainability-and-resilience-into-the-post-pandemic-recovery)
- AI-Enabled Human Rights Monitoring — Element AI (https://s3.amazonaws.com/element-ai-website-bucket/ai-enabled-human-rights-monitoring-wp.pdf)
- How to Prevent Discriminatory Outcomes in Machine Learning — World Economic Forum (http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_40065_White_Paper_How_to_Prevent_Discriminatory_Outcomes_in_Machine_Learning.pdf)

## Languages

- English (native)
- Arabic (native)
- French (professional_working)