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James Ong

James Ong

James Ong

Adjunct Professor at SUTD and serves as Chair of Program Advisory Committee (PAC), School of Business, Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS)
Head of AI and Industry Fellow at Global Fintech Institute (GFI)
Senior Fellow at The Conference Board (TCB), Expert Member of the UNESCO and UNU; CEO of Origami Frontiers and venture partner at Delight Capital

Dr. James Ong has 4 decades of industry, venture and academic experience. He founded Artificial Intelligence International Institute (AIII) in 2017, an AI think thank advocating Sustainable AI for Humanity. He is co-author of AI for Humanity (Wiley) and 人本人工智能 (中国人民大学出版社).

He actively champions AI for Humanity as United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 18 (UN SDG 18) and advocates the AI for Humanity movement globally including Davos in Europe, United Nations, ASEAN, China, India, US and Middle East. He is the International Advisor at the renowned World AI Conference (WAIC) and co-founded AICON 2025, the World’s #1 Consumer Show advocating “AI for Everyone”.

James is also Adjunct Professor at SUTD and serves as Chair of Program Advisory Committee (PAC), School of Business, Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) on Master of AI for Business programme. He serves as Head of AI and Industry Fellow at Global Fintech Institute (GFI), Senior Fellow at The Conference Board (TCB), Expert Member of the UNESCO and UNU. He is CEO of Origami Frontiers and venture partner at Delight Capital. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin specializing in AI for Computational Governance.