Lee Wan Sie

Cluster Director (AI Governance and Safety) at Infocomm Media Development Authority, Singapore

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Lee Wan Sie is Cluster Director for AI Governance and Safety at Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority. In the area of AI, her responsibilities include driving Singapore’s approach to AI governance, growing the trustworthy AI ecosystem in Singapore and collaborating with governments around the world to further the development of responsible AI.

She is also the Head for Policy for Singapore’s AI Safety Institute (AISI), where she is responsible for defining AI safety policies, as well as setting the direction and priorities for the AI safety R&D and engineering efforts in Singapore. Her role as policy lead for the Singapore AISI will also include establishing global partnerships with other AISIs, academia and industry.

Wan Sie has extensive experience in technology use in the public sector – prior to her current role, she developed Singapore’s strategies for Digital Economy and Smart Nation, enabled tech experimentation and innovation as head of IDA Labs, and implemented government digital services that helped Singapore become one of the easiest places in a world to do business. Outside of Singapore, she has worked with governments around the world in their national digitalisation efforts. Wan Sie actively supports Women in Tech in Singapore, to encourage young women to take up a career in technology.