Rishi Jaitly

Rishi Jaitly is a distinguished entrepreneur, executive, and educator with extensive global experience in technology, media, and civics. As Professor of Practice and Distinguished Humanities Fellow at Virginia Tech, he founded the Institute for Leadership in Technology, which offers the world's first Executive Leadership Credential in the Humanities for rising tech leaders. He also serves as a Senior Advisor to OpenAI. Previously, Jaitly was the Founding CEO of Times Bridge. He was Twitter’s VP for Asia Pacific, Middle East, and North Africa, and held leadership roles at Google and YouTube. Currently, he is Vice Chairman of the National Humanities Center and a Board Director of Virginia Humanities. A former Princeton Trustee, Jaitly was named one of Rest of World Magazine’s ‘Top 100 Global Tech Changemakers’ in 2022.