executive education

Responsible AI for Business Leaders

A premium executive education programme that equips senior leaders to lead AI responsibly, strategically, and defensibly.

3 days

4-5 hours
per day

Online & In-person

UCL CSRI certificate & IAPP CPE

You would benefit from this course if you are:

C-suite executives

Seeking tools and confidence to make and defend AI implementation with a clear ROI.

Senior management consultants

Requiring tools to advise their clients confidently and without risk of reputational damage.

Board members and NEDs

Interested in insights to meet their ethical and regulatory obligations without getting into the weeds of AI implementation.

Policy, risk and compliance leaders

Looking for governance tools to embed ethical AI practice, avoiding the threat of regulatory exposure.

Leave this course with:

The confidence to pass regulatory audits and defend AI decisions to boards, regulators, and stakeholders

The ability to identify and select AI initiatives with potential 3–5× ROI

The capability to challenge vendors, advisors, and internal teams to avoid costly AI failures through pre-deployment risk assessment

Ready practical tools and templates to support your AI journey

Your course convenor:

Prof. Tomaso Aste

Aste is Professor of Complexity Science and Head of the Computational Economics and Finance Section at UCL's Department of Computer Science, where he founded the Financial Computing and Analytics group in 2012. With a background spanning physics, complex systems, and material science across institutions including Imperial College, the Australian National University, and the University of Kent, his research now focuses on data-driven modeling with applications from finance to biology. He is author of Probabilistic Data-Driven Modeling (Cambridge, 2024), founder of the journal Data-Driven Modeling, and co-founder and Scientific Director of the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies. Professor Aste advises the Financial Conduct Authority, Bank of England, HMRC, and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on FinTech and RegTech, and coordinates executive training on AI, Blockchain, and RegTech for regulators and financial institutions.

Contributors:

Dr. Carolyn Phelan
Associate Professor, Computer Science
UCL
Maria del Rio-Chanona
Lecturer, Financial Computing
UCL
Shakirah Akinwale
Centre Director
UCL CSRI
Abda Rothman
Head of Sustainability Risk
Nordea
Chad Wollen
Managing Partner
Privacy Experience Agency
Yusra Ahmad
Managing Director
Acuity Data
“By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Machine Intelligence Institute