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Nusrat Farooq is an expert in Trust & Safety, with experience spanning both business and geopolitics. She is the Founding Partner at Artificial Intelligence Strategy. She previously led the enhancement of Incident Response Protocols at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), an initiative founded by Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube. In this role, she coordinated responses to terrorist and violent extremist attacks across 60+ countries, working with over 30 technology companies and 200+ global stakeholders.
Before joining GIFCT, Ms. Farooq consulted on international development, track-2 diplomacy, conflict resolution, deplatforming non-state actors, education, business development and social science field surveys for organizations such as the World Bank, Columbia University Law School, New America Foundation, UNICEF, Inter-Mediate, India Institute, Harvard University, and the University of Pennsylvania.
She has been recognized as an emerging leader by Germany’s Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit and Morocco’s Policy Center for the New South, with which she remains actively involved. Farooq is also a member of the American Political Science Association (APSA), the Extremism and Gaming Research Network (EGRN) and Women's Regional Network-India (WRN).
A technologist and thought leader, Farooq holds an MPA summa cum laude from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Engineering (summa) from the University of Kashmir. She is proficient in English, Kashmiri, Hindi, Urdu, and Arabic.
