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Saniye Gülser Corat

Saniye Gülser Corat is the Founder and GEO of NoBiasAI?, a global think launched in 2022 with dual objectives: to reflect on a possible paradigm shift in AI from data-driven machine learning (ML) to knowledge-based machine reasoning (MR) and to develop gender audit tools to address gender bias in ML algorithms and datasets.

Gülser Corat in November 2019

She served as Director for Gender Equality at UNESCO from September 2004 to August 202August 2020[1][2][3]

Prior to joining UNESCO, Gülser was the CEO of a global development consulting company (ECI Consulting, Inc.) based in Ottawa, Canada. In that capacity, she led development projects in over 60 countries. In parallel, she taught graduate seminars at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa.

Biography

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Gülser Corat attended Robert College and Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. She also completed a graduate degree in European studies at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and a graduate degree in international political economy at the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She has a post-graduate degree from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, USA.[4][5]

In September 2004 she joined UNESCO as director for gender equality. During her tenure, she negotiated and secured a unanimous vote by 195 member states to designate gender equality a global priority for the organization in 2007.[6] She launched special campaigns and programmes for girls’ education in STEM,[7][8][9] digital skills,[10][11][12][13] safety of women journalists,[14][15] women in science and women in sport.[16][17]  

She led the landmark 2019 study  “I’d Blush if I Could: Closing Gender Divides in Digital Skills in Education”, which found widespread inadvertent gender bias in the most popular artificial intelligence tools for consumers and business.

She initiated and managed research, shedding light on emerging issues such as gender bias in voice assistants powered by AI that culminated in the publication of the report I’d Blush if I Could[18] in March 2019. This report sparked a global conversation with the technology sector culminating in a keynote address at the largest global meeting of the technology sector, the Web Summit,[19] in 2019[20] and interviews with more than 600 media outlets around the globe - including the BBC,[21] CNN,[22] CBS,[23] ABC,[24] NYT,[25] The Guardian,[26] Forbes,[27] Time[28]

Gülser Corat published UNESCO’s follow-up research in August 2020, “Artificial Intelligence and Gender Equality” which presented findings of a dialogue with experts from the private sector and set forth proposed elements for a framework on gender equality and AI. The Digital Future Society named her one of the top ten women leaders in technology for 2020. In December 2020, she was named the Global Leader in Technology by the Women in Tech global movement and in March 2021, she was included on Apolitical 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy 2021.

Gülser Corat serves on the boards of Women’s Leadership Academy[29] (China), International Advisory Committee for Diversity Promotion,[30] Kobe University (Japan), UPenn Law School Global Women’s Leadership Project[31] (USA), and is a member of  Women  Executives  on Boards  and Extraordinary Women on Boards.

Her story is featured in "The Courage To Advance: Real life resilience from the world’s most successful women in business"[32]

References

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  1. ^ "Priority Gender Equality". UNESCO. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  2. ^ "Division for Gender Equality". UNESCO. 13 April 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Young UNESCO engaged in promoting gender equality". UNESCO. 2019-04-01. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
  4. ^ Street, The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School3501 Sansom; Philadelphia; map 215.898.7483, PA 19104. "Saniye Gülser Corat". www.law.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "Saniye Gülser Corat – GENDERACTION". genderaction.eu. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
  6. ^ Medium-term Strategy, 2008-2013. Pas: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. 2008. pp. 8, 10.
  7. ^ UNESCO (2018). Telling SAGA: Improving Measurement and Policies for Gender Equality in Science, Technology and Innovation, SAGA Working Paper 5. Paris. pp. 26, 27. ISBN 978-92-3-100299-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ^ "Niñas a romper los paradigmas: ¡vamos por las ciencias!". Reporte Miner. 6 February 2020.
  9. ^ "SAGA Advisory Committee". Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  10. ^ "Cracking the code: Empowering rural women and girls through digital skills" (PDF). GCED Clearing House. 14 March 2018.
  11. ^ ITU Digital Inclusion Division (26 April 2018). "UNESCO and BMZ empowers rural girls and women through digital skills training". ITU.
  12. ^ "Conectamos con Saniye Gülser Corat, Director for Gender Equality at UNESCO. Artificial Intelligence: Closing the Digital Skills Gender Divide". Novia Salcedo. 14 July 2020.
  13. ^ "Advancing the Gender Digital Divide through the EQUALS Skills Coalition: A Recap of Mobile Learning". EQUALS. 3 April 2018.
  14. ^ "UNESCO reflects on the role of online communities in tackling sexual harassment". Dev Discourse. 28 March 2018.
  15. ^ Impe, Anne-Marie (2020). Reporting on Violence against Women and Girls (PDF). Paris: UNESCO. pp. 3–4. ISBN 978-92-3-100349-3.
  16. ^ "Racing towards gender equality: The media's portrayal of women athletes and its effects on women's participation in sports". Un Women – Headquarters. 14 March 2018.
  17. ^ "The IOC, UN Women, UNESCO, P&G and NBC Sports are changing the conversation about women in sport". Van News Agency. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  18. ^ I'd Blush If I Could. Paris: UNESCO. 2019.
  19. ^ "Web Summit - Meet our 2019 DeepTech Speakers". Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  20. ^ "Is Siri Sexist". Web Summit. 22 November 2019.
  21. ^ Wakefield, Jane (21 May 2019). "Female-voice AI reinforces bias, says UN report". BBC.
  22. ^ Picheta, Rob (22 May 2019). "Hey Siri, stop perpetuating sexist stereotypes, UN says". CNN.
  23. ^ Falk, Pamela (23 May 2019). "Is it time for Alexa and Siri to have a "MeToo moment"?". CBS News.
  24. ^ The Associated Press (22 May 2019). "Is Siri sexist? UN cautions against biased voice assistants". ABC News.
  25. ^ Specia, Megan (22 May 2019). "Siri and Alexa Reinforce Gender Bias, U.N. Finds". NY Times.
  26. ^ Rawlinson, Kevin (22 May 2019). "Digital assistants like Siri and Alexa entrench gender biases, says UN". The Guardian.
  27. ^ Fatemi, Falon (17 February 2020). "Bridging The Gender Gap In AI". Forbes.
  28. ^ Gajanan, Mahita (22 May 2019). "AI Voice Assistants Reinforce Gender Biases, U.N. Report Says". Time.
  29. ^ "UNESCO and Women Leadership Academy (China) sign a Letter of Cooperation to promote gender equality and women's leadership". UNESCO. 21 October 2015.
  30. ^ "Gender Equality and Diversity at Kobe University". UNESCO. 27 May 2019.
  31. ^ Penn Law (10 July 2017). "Global Women's Leadership Project".
  32. ^ Hagemann, Bonnie; Pent, Lisa (2021). The courage to advance: real life resilience from the world's most successful women in business. Boston: Nicholas Brealey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5293-6899-4.
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