Haifa Badi Uz Zaman
Program Manager for AI and Society, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
Bio
Haifa Badi-Uz-Zaman is a Program Manager at Stanford HAI where she leads the institute’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) portfolio. This involves producing research, education and convenings to support civil society organizations with leveraging AI for more equitable outcomes. Haifa is also leading the institute's emerging education work with policy and civil society stakeholders in Global South countries to help strengthen the AI ecosystem per global development goals. Haifa has a master's degree in International Education Policy from Harvard University, which she attended as the Aga Khan Foundation's International Scholar from Pakistan. She has previously managed research and education programs at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Citizen Schools California, and the Aga Khan Development Network in Kenya. Haifa is a native Pashto speaker from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan, and was raised in the United Arab Emirates.