Ayisha Piotti

Ayisha Piotti is Head of AI Policy Summit at ETH Zurich's Center for Law & Economics and Managing Partner at RegHorizon.

Passionate about promoting responsible adoption of AI through innovation in policy and multi stakeholder dialogue, Ayisha is the visionary behind creating Switzerland's largest Global AI Policy discussion platform, attended in 2022 by 82 countries spanning six continents, the host of the podcast series NAVIGATING AI. and an active speaker at global AI events on AI ethics and technology governance. She also contributes via academic publications, media articles and podcast appearances in Switzerland and abroad on AI policy discussions.

Ayisha is involved in many expert groups working on AI Policy frameworks, including ITU / UNESCO Broadband Commission’s expert committee on AI Capacity Building. She is also a member of the Ethics Council of a US-based company, Eightfold AI, and an affiliated faculty of the Imperial College London’s  Trusted AI Alliance.

She has over 20 years of experience in the private & public sector, including with the United Nations. Prior to joining ETH Zurich’s Center for Law and Economics and setting up the firm RegHorizon, Ayisha was a Senior Director of Business Development and Corporate Affairs within a large multinational, where she built and led cross-functional teams and projects spanning diverse geographies, including Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

Ayisha’s educational background is in Economics and Management, and she is an alumna of the London School of Economics & Political Science (UK), Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy (USA), MIT’s Sloan School of Management (USA), INSEAD (France) and the IMD (Switzerland).

Ayisha strongly believes in the role of education in empowering youth and is a Co-Founder and Board Member of the federally supervised Swiss LSE Alumnae and Alumni Foundation. She is also actively engaged in various organizations promoting women in leadership and technology.