About
Nusrat Farooq is an expert in Responsible AI operations, with experience that spans business, tech and geopolitics. She is the Founder and Partner at effectivRAI, a CEO advisory and tech firm committed to trusted and responsible AI operations.. She previously led the enhancement of Incident Response Protocols at Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), which was founded by Facebook, Microsoft, YouTube and X (formerly Twitter, which exited in Sep 2024). In this role, she coordinated responses to terrorist and violent extremist attacks across 60+ countries, working with over 30 technology companies and 200+ global stakeholders.
Her work has involved international development, track-2 diplomacy, trust and safety, crisis response, education, business development and social science field surveys. She has served organizations such as the World Bank, Columbia Law School, UNICEF, India Institute, Harvard University, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Nusrat is an incoming PhD student at Yale. She holds an MPA from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Kashmir. She has been recognized as an emerging leader by Morocco's Policy Center for the New South and by Germany’s Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit.
She has been published by Bloomsbury, Palgrave Macmillan, Taylor & Francis, and by Columbia Public Policy Review. She is also a contributor at Tech Policy Press.