Nina Schick is a geopolitical strategist and AI expert specialising in the global race for Artificial General Intelligence and industrial intelligence. She helps business leaders and policymakers understand how AI infrastructure, generative technology and geopolitical competition are reshaping global power, security and economic strategy.
Nina Schick is a leading geopolitical strategist and artificial intelligence expert focused on the race for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and the emergence of industrial intelligence. Her work examines how AI infrastructure, compute power and generative technologies are reshaping geopolitics, national security and the future balance of global power.
Nina Schick works at the intersection of technology, geopolitics and strategic decision-making. Her research and advisory work focus on how artificial intelligence is transforming global competition and the strategic infrastructure underpinning the digital economy.
Her insights are sought by organisations operating at the highest levels of global governance and enterprise.
Key engagements and advisory roles include advising the Secretary General of NATO on emerging technology and geopolitical strategy, briefing U.S. President Joe Biden on the strategic implications of artificial intelligence, and working with organisations including the United Nations, the U.S. Army and Mastercard on AI, sovereignty and digital trust.
Through Tamang Ventures, she also holds advisory and equity roles with frontier technology companies building the infrastructure behind artificial intelligence. Her work includes advising Synthesia, the enterprise AI video generation company, during a period of rapid global growth. She is also a founding member of Qlik’s AI Council, helping guide enterprise intelligence strategy, and works with Truepic on initiatives focused on securing digital authenticity and provenance in the age of synthetic media.
Prior to focusing on AI strategy, Nina spent a decade working at the centre of European politics and policymaking. During this period, she navigated several defining geopolitical moments, including Brexit, European energy crises and rising concerns around democratic trust. Her work included contributing to Emmanuel Macron’s 2017 presidential campaign and advising on the Democracy Perception Index, the world’s largest machine-learning study on global attitudes toward democracy.
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