Thompson Gyedu Kwarkye is the Principal Investigator (PI) for the AfroGAIN project. This project investigates African AI governance’s political, ethical, and sociocultural dimensions, focusing on participatory policymaking and transnational AI standards. Thompson holds a PhD in Anthropology from Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, an MSc in Human Security from Aarhus University, Denmark, and a BA in Political Science from the University of Ghana. Thompson has been a postdoc at the University College Dublin and the University of Oxford, designing AI ethics and auditing courses and researching the impacts of EU regulations on the Global South, respectively.