Lama Ahmad is on the Policy Research team at OpenAI where she leads partnerships and research on the risks and the social impact of artificial intelligence. Ahmad previously worked on Facebook’s Open Research & Transparency team focused on the societal impact of Facebook and Instagram. During her year as a Luce Scholar, Ahmad was at the UN Pulse Lab Jakarta studying the ethics of data-driven technologies in Indonesia and Southeast Asia with a human-centered design approach. Ahmad is an alumna of NYU Abu Dhabi and holds a degree in Social Research and Public Policy and a minor in Interactive Media and Technology.