Marie-Therese Png

About

Marie-Therese is an advocate working at the intersections of technology justice, environmental justice and decoloniality within activism, policy, academia and industry. Her academic works include Decolonial Theory as Socio-technical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence Research, Critical Roles of Global South Stakeholders in Artificial Intelligence Governance, and Evaluating the Social Impact of Generative AI Systems in Systems and Society.
With the Green Screen Coalition, she facilitates transnational alliance building at the intersections of tech justice, resource justice and antimilitarism. She has worked with activist communities in Mexico, Thailand, Brazil, Costa Rica, Chile, Canada, Okinawa, and most recently in Taiwan on semiconductor supply chains. In intergovernmental settings, she was Technology Advisor to the UN Secretary General leading on the conceptualisation and building of the Tech Envoy’s Office, which included the creation of the AI Advisory Body, and advocated for a focus on strategic representation of low-middle income member states in AI governance.