Professor Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem was the Chairperson of the UNESCO Ad Hoc Expert Group that prepared the draft of the 2021 UNESCO Global Recommendation on the Ethics of AI. She is a member of the AHEG working on implementing the Recommendation. She is the rapporteur for the UNESCO Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST). She is a member of the African Union Development Agency (AUDA)-NEPAD Consultative Roundtable on Ethics in Africa and of the African Commission Human and People’s Rights Committee (ACHPR) task team working on the Resolution 473 study on Human and Peoples’ Rights and AI, Robotics and other New and Emerging Technologies in Africa. Emma is a full member of the International Academy for the Philosophy of Science. She has been the elected alternate South African representative at the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST) since 2014. She is associate editor of Science and Engineering Ethics and sits on advisory boards for international entities such as the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems, and Software Programme (Human Sciences) hosted by Umeå University, Sweden; the Global AI Ethics Institute (Paris, France), and SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany). She is a philosopher of science and technology, a logician, an AI ethics policy and machine ethics researcher, the AI ethics lead at the Centre for AI Research (CAIR) in South Africa, and the Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria.