Fatima Faisal Khan is the Senior Associate for Ecosystem Trust & Safety at the Institute for Security and Technology (IST), where she designs policy solutions that safeguard open digital spaces while advancing responsible AI. Drawing on a career that began at the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Fatima bridges human‑rights practice with platform trust and safety, focusing on election integrity, disinformation, and emerging‑tech governance. She previously served as Assistant Director of the PeaceTech & Polarization Lab at the University of Notre Dame and completed a fellowship with the Wikimedia Foundation’s Human Rights Team, supporting editor communities across South and Central Asia. Her master’s thesis analyzed election‑time influence operations in the United States, India, and Taiwan, informing her current work on the geopolitical AI race, particularly U.S.-China technology competitiveness, and the long-term economic and social impacts of deep‑tech innovation. Fatima also advocates for grassroots inclusion in AI policymaking through multistakeholder engagement and community capacity‑building. She is fluent in English, Urdu, Hindi, and Punjabi, with working proficiency in Pashto.

Areas of Expertise: Responsible AI, Platform trust & safety, Human rights & grassroots digital rights, Geopolitics of AI, Deep tech, U.S.–China technological competition