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AI for Boards

Effective board governance of AI strategy, risks and ethics

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Steering board governance in an AI-driven world

As a transformative technology, artificial intelligence has permeated every facet of business and society, reshaping economies and disrupting industries. It presents organisations with unprecedented opportunities alongside significant new risks. In this evolving environment, boards are required to stay ahead of the curve and ensure effective AI governance and decision-making across corporate strategy, risk management, stakeholder engagement and compliance.

Effective board stewardship today increasingly depends on a sound understanding of AI’s implications. Participants will engage with fellow directors to exchange experiences, challenges and solutions in a collaborative environment, building a network of peers equally committed to strengthening their oversight in this rapidly developing field.

This new INSEAD executive programme provides an exclusive and highly interactive learning experience for board members seeking to deepen their understanding of AI governance.

Key benefits for board directors

Foundations of AI
Understanding the foundations of AI

Build the essential knowledge board directors need to evaluate how AI and machine learning create strategic value, strengthen decision making and shape long term competitiveness

Identify opportunities and threats
Assessing AI capabilities for board oversight

Assess your organisation’s AI capabilities from a board perspective, identify the opportunities and threats most material to oversight and determine whether the organisation is structured and governed to harness AI responsibly and effectively

Data-Driven Decision Making
Strengthening data driven and AI informed decision making

Understand the analytical and decision making tools that enable boards to challenge management effectively, interpret AI informed insights and oversee more rigorous, evidence based strategic choices

Ethical risks
Overseeing ethical and regulatory AI risks

Examine the ethical, societal and regulatory risks of AI and clarify the board’s role in ensuring responsible use, establishing governance processes and safeguarding trust, accountability and compliance

Leave with a clear action plan

AI governance

Apply AI governance principles directly to your board context through peer exchange, faculty guidance and case discussions, and outline how to implement the controls, frameworks and monitoring mechanisms that strengthen oversight

Participant profile

The AI for Boards Programme is designed for chairs and non-executive directors of listed and private corporations, government agencies and organisations, and non-profits. It is also aimed at CEOs, COOs, CFOs and other C-suite executives, as well as family members and controlling shareholders of boards of family companies. 

Applicants, including all types of C-level executives, must have a minimum of one year of board experience to fully benefit from and contribute to a programme that includes role-play, simulations, and peer exchanges.

Skills you will develop

  • Governance
  • Risk Assessment
  • Leadership and Vision
  • Resilience and Agility
  • Strategic Thinking and Execution
  • Change Management

Programme Director

Spyros Zoumpoulis
Spyros Zoumpoulis is a tenured associate professor of Decision Sciences at INSEAD. His research is on developing prescriptive analytics and algorithms for personalization and experimentation, with applications in marketing, healthcare, public health policy, and revenue management. In his work, he develops frameworks and models that quantify the value of experiments for learning and making better personalized decisions, and develops novel algorithms for solving real-world problems. His research has appeared in leading management science academic journals such as Management Science and Operations Research. He is currently an Associate Editor for Operations Research. In his work, Spyros partners with retailers, healthcare providers, and financial services firms. He has worked with companies including Microsoft, LinkedIn, IBM, Oracle, and Accenture and has served on the advisory board of start-ups in the areas of his expertise. At INSEAD, he has taught the MBA electives on foundations of AI for managers and decision models, the MBA and Executive MBA core course on uncertainty, data and judgment, the MBA business foundations course on quantitative methods, the PhD courses on probability and statistics, and the INSEAD-Sorbonne business foundations course on uncertainty, data and judgment. He has won the Dean's Commendation for Excellence in MBA Teaching award numerous times and has been nominated for the best MBA elective professor award. Spyros received the B.S., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Spyros Zoumpoulis

Associate Professor of Decision Sciences

Spyros Zoumpoulis

Associate Professor of Decision Sciences

Faculty

Anton S. Ovchinnikov
Dr. Anton Ovchinnikov is an Associate Professor of Decision Sciences at INSEAD. He holds a specialist degree in Economics from his hometown university in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, and a PhD in Operations Management from the University of Toronto. Prior to INSEAD he was a professor at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia in the USA and at the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University in Canada (from which he is presently on leave). Under his leadership, the Smith School won a major global prize for the best curriculum in analytics and AI: the UPS Prize by the Institute of Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS). Anton’s research interests are on the intersection of Decisions Sciences with Operations, Marketing, and Economics. On the theoretical side these include studying strategic behavior of consumers and firms, innovative technologies (including artificial intelligence, AI), and environmental and social sustainability, and on the applied – data driven decision making in business, government, and non-profits. Anton published extensively in both the leading academic research journals, such as Management Science(MS), Operations Research(OR), Manufacturing & Services Operations Management(MSOM) and Production and Production and Operations Management(POM), and the leading practice-oriented journals, such as Harvard Business Review(HBR). Anton teaches courses on data-driven decision making, data analytics, AI (incl. GenAI), and pricing analytics in the INSEAD’s MBA and GEMBA programs. In Executive Education he co-teaches and co-directs flagship open-enrollment programs such as “Strategic Decision Making for Leaders” (SDML) and “AI for Boards,” as well as the numerous custom programs around the world. He worked with clients in financial services (banks, insurance, investment firms, incl. sovereign wealth funds and family offices), oil&gas, chemicals, mining, energy, advanced manufacturing, FMCG, major retailers, airlines, big tech, law firms, as well as for government bodies (incl., regulators, education, and healthcare systems). He also consults on the topics of advanced analytics and AI, including for sustainability and ESG applications. Anton is twice the winner of the “Faculty of the Year” Award for the Master in Management Analytics (MMA) program at Smith and a co-winner of the 2020 INFORMS UPS Prize for the world’s best curriculum in analytics and AI. His research received numerous recognitions, such as being listed among the Top 100 AI projects to advance UN Sustainable Development Goals by UNESCO’s International Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI), and has been awarded multiple prestigious research awards, such as the 2015 Paul Kleindorfer Award in Sustainability from the POM Society and the 2023 Best Paper Award by the INFORMS’ MSOM Special Interest Group (SIG) on Finance and Operations (iFORM). Anton is also a prolific case writer. Her is a three-times winner of INFORMS Case Competitions (2005, 2011 and 2021) for the best new cases in analytics, and his cases were four times among the Case Centre’s Global Bestsellers. Anton organized several conferences and is on the editorial review boards of multiple leading academic journals (including being an Associate Editor in OR and as a Senior Editor in POM); his contributions to the academic community also received multiple service awards. Before starting his academic career, he worked in commercializing high-tech developments, and co-owned a business in industrial and architectural design. Anton still owns a boutique consulting firm, and is a founding board member of an international artist residency (L’AiR Arts) based in a historical artist atelier in the Montparnasse neighborhood of Paris. Anton's INSEAD case publishing site is here: Anton S. Ovchinnikov | INSEAD Publishing
Anton S. Ovchinnikov

Associate Professor of Decision Sciences

Anton S. Ovchinnikov

Associate Professor of Decision Sciences

Annet Aris
Annet Aris is Senior Affiliate Professor of Strategy at INSEAD and Academic Director of INSEAD’s Corporate Governance Centre. She joined INSEAD in 2003, her focus is on Digital transformation and disruption and its impact on society, industries and companies as well as on Corporate Governance. She was nominated in 2010 and 2011 for the best teacher award by the MBA students and received the Dean’s certificate for teaching excellence in the MBA programme in 2019, 2020, 2021,2022, 2023 and 2024. Annet has also extensive experience as a non-executive board member of a variety publicly listed companies across Europe. Currently she is the vice-Chair of the Board of ASML NV (lithography systems for semi-conductor production), Chair of the Remuneration Committee at Randstad NV (HR services) and Board member at Jungheinrich AG (intralogistics). Annet ranks amongst most influential corporate directors in The Netherlands. Annet is a Dutch native and received a MSc. from the University of Wageningen in 1984. After acceptance in McKinsey’s European INSEAD Fellow program, she completed her MBA with distinction in Fontainebleau in 1986. She worked for McKinsey from 1985 until 2003, at first in the Netherlands and in the UK and, since 1990, in Germany. She was elected partner in 1994 and co-led McKinsey’s German Media Practice from 1999-2003 working on a wide array of topics. She is the author of a large number of articles and case studies on digital transformation. Together with Jacques Bughin, she wrote the book Managing Media Companies, Harnessing Creative Value. She recently published “Wegwijzer in het digitale doolhof” (“Pathway through the digital labyrinth” in Dutch).
Annet Aris

Senior Affiliate Professor of Strategy

Annet Aris

Senior Affiliate Professor of Strategy

Academic Director, INSEAD Corporate Governance Centre

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