Lea Gimpel has been working at the intersection of international development and digitalisation for almost a decade. She currently co-leads the project “FAIR Forward – Artificial Intelligence for All” at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The project aims to make AI training datasets available as global public goods and supports governments in Africa and Asia in building their AI ecosystem. She was a senior expert at GIZ’s competence center for digital development and led GIZ’s digital transformation initiative. She is an EMPA 2019 student.
