Maya Sherman

Maya Sherman is a senior AI researcher, ethicist, and policy advisor with more than a decade of experience advancing global initiatives in AI ethics, digital transformation, and social innovation. She is Innovation Attaché at the Embassy of Israel in India, based in Delhi. Sherman is a Scientific Council Member of the Israeli Association for Ethics in AI, serves on the Advisory Board of FIDUTAM, and advises Yashoda AI, where she supports AI literacy programs designed to empower women. At the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, she serves as an AI Expert and co-leads India’s national initiative on AI literacy for the informal climate sector. Her work has directly benefited more than 20,000 farmers through multilingual training programs tailored to local contexts. As a member of the Future of Work Committee, she contributes to frameworks for the responsible integration of AI in the workforce, focusing on the impact of generative technologies. Sherman has published widely on AI governance, digital ethics, and disinformation, with contributions in Science and Public Policy, Routledge, and the Oxford Political Review.