# Sherif EA (@sherif.mu.social)

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

## About

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## Career

- **Co-Lead Eurosky at Eurosky** (Jul 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** (Dec 2025 - Present)
- **Senior Fellow at Future of Technology Institute (FoTI)** (Sep 2025 - Present)
- **Investor at Oru Space** (Jul 2025 - Present)
- **Co-Founder at Nexus Climate** (Sep 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** (Jan 2025 - Dec 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.
- **Secretariat at Industrial Decarbonization AI Coalition** (Jul 2024 - Nov 2025)
- **Executive Director at Future of Technology Institute (FoTI)** (Oct 2024 - Sep 2025)
- **Expert Working Group Member at AI for Decarbonisation’s Virtual Centre of Excellence (ADVICE)** (May 2024 - Mar 2025)
  London Area, GB
- **Co-Founder and CEO at Carbon Re** (Oct 2020 - Sep 2023)
  London, England, GB
  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.
- **Director, AI for Climate; Director of Partnerships, AI for Good at Element AI** (Nov 2018 - Sep 2020)
  London, England, GB
  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.
- **Co-chair, Global Council on the Future of Human Rights and Technology at World Economic Forum** (Sep 2018 - Aug 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.
- **Fellow at Harvard Carr Center for Human Rights Policy** (Sep 2018 - Jul 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, Amnesty Tech at Amnesty International** (Jan 2015 - Oct 2018)
  London, England, GB
  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.
- **Deputy Director - Global Issues at Amnesty International** (Feb 2013 - Jun 2016)
  London, GB
  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** (Aug 2012 - Feb 2013)
- **Deputy Director of Global Issues / Head of Refugee and Migrants' Rights at Amnesty International** (Jul 2010 - Oct 2012)
- **Trustee at Africa and Middle East Refugee Assistance - UK** (2005 - Jan 2011)
- **MPA candidate and Mason Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government** (Jul 2009 - Jun 2010)
- **Head of the Refugee and Migrants' Rights Team at Amnesty International** (Jan 2007 - Jul 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;
- **Refugee Officer (Middle East and North Africa) at Amnesty International** (Apr 2003 - Jun 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.
- **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)
  Advice to asylum-seekers; representation during asylum procedures.
- **Eligibility Officer at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees** (2001)
  Interviewing asylum-seekers and assessing cases.

## Projects

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

## Publications

- Things we shouldn't say in polite company — sherif.pckt.blog (Jul 2026) https://sherif.pckt.blog/things-we-shouldnt-say-in-polite-company-sc3wz85
- This is my blog — sherif.pckt.blog (Jun 2026) https://sherif.pckt.blog/this-is-my-blog-gysx55y
- How AI Can Help Manufacturers Achieve Sustainability Goals - ebook — Element AI (Sep 2020) https://www.elementai.com/sustainability-goals-ebook
- Building Sustainability and Resilience into the Post-Pandemic Recovery — Element AI (Jun 2020) https://www.elementai.com/news/2020/building-sustainability-and-resilience-into-the-post-pandemic-recovery
- AI-Enabled Human Rights Monitoring — Element AI (Sep 2019) 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 (Mar 2018) http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_40065_White_Paper_How_to_Prevent_Discriminatory_Outcomes_in_Machine_Learning.pdf

## Skills

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

## Education

- **Harvard Kennedy School** — MPA (2009 - 2010)
  Focus areas: strategic management; operations management; negotiation analysis; energy policy; technology policy; transportation policy; management, finance and regulation of public infrastructure.
- **The American University in Cairo** (2000 - 2004)
- **The American University in Cairo** — Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) (1995 - 2000)
- **Collège de la Sainte Famille** (1995)

## Languages

- Arabic (native)
- English (native)
- French (professional working)