Soenke Ziesche has worked since 2000 for the United Nations in the humanitarian, recovery and sustainable development fields as well as in data and information management. In addition to UN Headquarters in New York he has been posted to Palestine, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Sudan, Libya, where he was temporarily the highest UN representative during the revolution, South Sudan, Bangladesh and Maldives. Currently he is a consultant, mostly for the UN, for disaster information management as well as for AI. He holds a PhD in Natural Sciences from the University of Hamburg, which he received within a Doctoral Program in Artificial Intelligence, and has published various peer-reviewed articles about AI safety and ethics and also related to the SDGs. He is based in New Delhi.