AI INNOVATION & ETHICS
Dr. Hind Arroub is the “AI Meets Islam” project initiator & lead at UC Berkeley with the CITRIS – Innovation Hub. Recently recognised as one of the 100 brilliant and inspiring women globally on the 2025 list by the Women in AI Ethics Foundation, Dr Arroub is a Fulbright interdisciplinary senior lecturer and scholar, renowned as a geopolitical, legal and social scientist, ethicist and advisor.
She is also a human rights activist, international consultant, former journalist, writer and poet. Her research explores critical intersections such as AI and geopolitics, AI and the global economic market, AI in the contexts of democracy and dictatorship, AI ethics, human rights, international law, AI and Islam, and AI in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.Arroub holds a PhD in law and political science from Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, and a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship in Middle East studies from Fordham University in New York. She has also earned certifications in artificial intelligence from Lund University in Sweden and DeepLearning.AI in the US.