Dr. Ayesha Khanna is a globally recognized AI expert, entrepreneur, and the Co-Founder and CEO of Addo, an artificial intelligence solutions firm headquartered in Singapore. With more than two decades in digital transformation, she advises Fortune 500 CEOs and governments worldwide on how to harness AI, data, and smart-city technologies for growth.
She is the founder of Amplify, a VC-funded media and education company that helps leaders turn AI from buzzwords into everyday advantage, and of 21C Girls, a Singapore charity that delivered free coding and AI classes to thousands of girls over more than a decade.
Khanna's board experience spans some of the world's most significant institutions. She serves on the boards of Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI), NEOM Tonomus — where she helps shape the technology infrastructure of Saudi Arabia's flagship smart city, and where she served as Chairwoman of the Investment Committee and now chairs the Remuneration Committee — Mercy, one of the largest healthcare providers in the United States, and HTX, Singapore's homeland security technology agency. She previously served on the board of AVEVA (formerly FTSE100, before its acquisition by Schneider Electric) and on the Scientific Advisory Board of L'Oréal. She has also held seats on several Singapore government boards, including the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), and was a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Councils.
She holds a BA (honors) in Economics from Harvard University, an MS in Operations Research from Columbia University, and a PhD in Information Systems from the London School of Economics, focused on digital innovation in smart cities.
Recognized as a groundbreaking female entrepreneur in Southeast Asia by Forbes, Khanna has also been named one of Edelman's Top 50 AI Creators (2025), featured among Salesforce's 16 AI Influencers to Know (2024), and recognized by Reuters Events as one of the Trailblazing Women in Enterprise AI (2026). Her work has been profiled in The New York Times, TIME, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and Foreign Policy, and she has spoken for organizations including FedEx, S&P Global, BMW, Publicis Groupe, and E.ON.
She is the co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012) and author of Straight Through Processing (2008), and is currently writing Gamechanger, a book on business strategies for harnessing generative AI.
