Mary L. Gray & Siddharth Suri
Authors, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
Mary L. Gray is Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She maintains a faculty position in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering with affiliations in Anthropology and Gender Studies at Indiana University. Mary, an anthropologist and media scholar by training, focuses on how people’s everyday uses of technologies transform labor, identity, and human rights. She sits on several boards, including Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research and the California Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors, in addition to chairing the Microsoft Research Ethics Review Program—the only federally registered institutional review board of its kind in the tech industry. In 2020, Mary was named a MacArthur Fellow for her contributions to anthropology and the study of technology, digital economies, and society.
Siddharth Suri is a computational social scientist whose research interests lie at the intersection of computer science, behavioral economics, and crowdsourcing. His early work analyzed the relationship between network topology and human behavior. Since then he has become one of the leaders in designing, building, and conducting "virtual lab" experiments using Amazon's Mechanical Turk. He has used this methodology to study cooperation, honesty, group problem solving, and display advertising. More recently, he was a founding member of Microsoft Research - New York City and I just joined the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group of Microsoft Research - AI. Siddharth has a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Charlotte Valeur has over 40 years of experience in the finance industry. She has an extensive portfolio career serving on several public and private boards over the last 15 years – as well as delivering training and advising boards in corporate governance through her company Global Governance Group. She is also a visiting professor in governance at University of Strathclyde.
A lifelong human rights advocate, Charlotte is driven to play her part in creating an inclusive society. Putting action behind words she has launched the Institute of Neurodiversity and is also the Founder of Board Apprentice – a not for profit organisation set up to improve the pipeline and diversity of tomorrow’s Directors.
Helen is the inaugural Honorary Professor of Climate Change and Mental Health at the University of Sydney. She is a widely-cited psychiatric epidemiologist and expert in how climate change, disasters and social and physical place influence mental health and wellbeing. She advises on national and international research programs and is a lead member of the MJA-Lancet (Australian) Countdown scientific team. She has developed multiple population screening measures including the Australian Community Participation Questionnaire, the Brief Weather Disaster Trauma Exposure and Impact Screen and others which are included in population health and intervention studies around the world. Helen has been supported by competitive research funding and has led influential research-policy initiatives. She also holds an honorary appointment at Macquarie University.