Vilas Dhar is an artificial intelligence (AI) expert, technology and philanthropic executive, and a champion for equity in a tech-enabled world. He serves as President and Trustee of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, a 21st-century $1.5 billion philanthropy advancing AI and data solutions to create a thriving and sustainable future for all.As a prominent scholar and civil society advocate on AI policy and human outcomes, Vilas serves as a United Nations Secretary-General appointee to the UN High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, the US Government Nominated Expert to the Global Partnership on AI, as a member of the OECD Expert Working Group on AI Futures, on the Global Future Council on AI at the World Economic Forum, on the Advisory Council at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), and as Expert Contributor to OECD.AI.