Mehdi Snene

Mehdi Snene, Ph.D., is Head of AI and Digital Program at the United Nations and Senior Advisor on AI and digital transformation in the Office of the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology. He leads global initiatives on AI for development, digital public infrastructure, open-source AI and large-scale compute, with a focus on inclusion, interoperability and governance.

Previously, Mehdi was Technical Director of the €1 billion Human Brain Project at EPFL and founding CEO and Chief AI Officer at I-DAIR, where he built federated AI and data infrastructures for health. He also founded INFIM, advancing AI-enabled digital infrastructure across Africa to address SDG challenges through multi-stakeholder collaboration.