Join Us In Welcoming Hind Arroub PhD, Innovator, Scientist, and AI Expert and Ethicist
We are proud to announce that highly recognised thought leader, Dr Hind Arroub is now teaching at Marbella International University Centre. Currently, Hind is the “AI Meets Islam” project lead at UC Berkeley with the CITRIS – Innovation Hub
Recently recognised as one of the 100 brilliant and inspiring women globally on the 2025 list by the Women in AI Ethics Foundation, Dr Arroub is a Fulbright interdisciplinary senior lecturer and scholar, renowned as a geopolitical, legal and social scientist, ethicist and advisor. She is also a human rights activist, international consultant, former journalist, writer and poet.
Her research explores critical intersections such as AI and geopolitics, AI and the global economic market, AI in the contexts of democracy and dictatorship, AI ethics, human rights, international law, AI and Islam, and AI in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
She is a director of corporate strategy at KineticAI Labs Inc. in Silicon Valley in the United States (a leading company specialising in robotics, artificial intelligence, ASL/ LVM modeling and data, and quantum computing), and serves as an artificial intelligence policy and alignment advisor at the American think tank Kawaai.ai.
She is also a mentor on AI and data privacy with the U.S. think tank All Tech Is Human, and is leading seminars on AI, business and geopolitics here in Marbella.
Arroub is the North Africa regional manager for the Varieties of Democracy Program, the world’s leading democracy and big data project, which generates 22.5 million data points annually. This initiative is based at the Department of Political Science at Gothenburg University in Sweden and the Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame.
She has lectured at prestigious institutions, including UC Berkeley, Stanford, Princeton, Notre Dame and Gothenburg University, and she has taught at Fordham University in New York across the School of Law, the political science department, the MENA program, and the Arabic language program. Her academic affiliations include a fellowship at the Maecenata Stiftung MENA Study Centre in Berlin, Germany; a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL); and an associate researcher at the Laboratory of Sociology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France.
Dr Arroub is also the founder of the MENA-focused think tank Hypatia of Alexandria Institute for Reflection and Studies. Over her 25-year career, she has not only excelled in academia and research but also in activism and consulting for international organizations, including the United Nations, USAID, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), U.N. Women, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Her interviews with renowned thinkers and leaders, such as Noam Chomsky, futurologist Mahdi El-Mandjra, Francis Fukuyama, and U.N. peace envoy Lakhdar Ibrahimi, further highlight her global engagement.
Arroub holds a PhD in law and political science from Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, and a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship in Middle East studies from Fordham University in New York. She has also earned certifications in artificial intelligence from Lund University in Sweden and Deeplearning.AI in the US.
She has an extensive list of publications and has chaired numerous conferences and panels globally. Fluent in Arabic, French and English, Arroub continues to advance critical global conversations at the nexus of AI, ethics, Islam, the MENA region, the global market and geopolitics.
