Angela Aristidou

Digital Fellows

It’s crucial to investigate not just what new digital technologies – including artificial intelligence- can do, but also how they are actually deployed, governed, and experienced in real organizations and societies. This is the time to develop evidence-based insights that will shape these digital tools for public good, responsible practice, and inclusive innovation.

Professor, University College London | Fellow, Stanford HAI

Professor Angela Aristidou speaks, writes, and advises about the real-life deployment of artificial intelligence tools. Her research spans the contexts of health, higher education, nonprofit, and humanitarian aid, in the UK, United States, Canada, and several Asian countries.

Her current work has been honored through a Stanford CASBS Award (2023), a Google AI & Economy research award (2026), and a UK Research Innovation Award (2025-). She specializes in strategy and entrepreneurship at University College London’s School of Management, is a Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and holds degrees from Cambridge and Harvard.

Dr Aristidou’s research influences industry practices and policymaking, notably national and international level policies on AI and GenAI in regulated industry sectors (OECD; UK NICE; WEF CTT). She is regularly invited to speak on the international stage for audiences of thousands, that span academia and industry – recently at the 2026 World Bank Group meeting, 2025 AI Action Summit (Paris), the 2025 NVidia GTC, the 2025 Mastercard Annual Summit, and the Global Fundraising AI Summit.

Angela also has a track record of translating her research into Executive Education offerings: She acted as Director of simulation-led executive and professional education programs at Cambridge University (2012-2022), as well as Oxford University and the Harvard-MIT Centre for Simulation. She designs and delivers customized executive courses with ratings of over 4.8/5 consistently, e.g. for the global senior executive leaderships of Novo Nordisk, the Coca Cola Group, the World Bank Group, and Bayer, among many others. Since 2022, Angela has been teaching the “AI Implementation” module of the AI for Business open executive program of the UCL School of Management, and has guest lectured for the NYU Executive course on Digital Innovation.