Craig Ramlal

Dr. Craig Ramlal is the Executive Director of the Artificial Intelligence Innovation Centre, at the UWI, the largest Caribbean AI centre, and the Head of the Control Systems Group in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, also  at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. In 2023, the United Nations recognized him as a preeminent AI leader, appointing him to the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence

He currently serves as the Chair of CARICOM CTU’s  Caribbean Taskforce on AI, charged with writing harmonized AI policies, recommendations and guidelines for the Caribbean nations, a member of the CARICOM’s Security Strategy Steering Committee, as an advisor to CXC’s regional AI education policy matters, as an expert on the UNDP+CARICOM’s joint regional AI programme 2026-2030, an expert on UN ECLAC’s National AI Agenda’s for SIDS and as a member of the eLAC’s Caribbean AI working group toward fulfilling the eLAC2026 Agenda.

Previously, he lent his expertise to the development Singapore’s National AI Research and Development Plan, served on the Caribbean Development Bank’s technical subcommittee on IRC/RDA, collaborated with CARICOM IMPACS on the regionally adopted Autonomous Weapon Systems Declaration, served as a lead on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Global Initiative on the Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems 2.0, and was also an invited peer reviewer for UNESCO’s AI Policy Roadmap for the Caribbean.