Prof. Fola Adeleke is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Global Center on AI Governance. Fola leads our knowledge hub, the African observatory on Responsible AI. He holds a PhD in international investment law and human rights from the University of Witwatersrand and completed his post-doctoral research as a Fulbright Scholar at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia University and the Human Rights Program, Harvard University.

Fola is also an Associate Professor at Wits Law School South Africa, an Atlantic Senior Fellow on Social and Economic Equity at the London School of Economics and an Assistant Professor in Commercial Law at the Sobey Business School, St Mary's University, Canada. Fola currently serves as a Commissioner for the Lancet Commission on AI and HIV. Fola is an NRF rated researcher in South Africa and his research focuses on data protection, transparency, international investment law and corporate accountability