AI Governance Summer School in Bangladesh 2026
A five-day, in-person executive education programme examining how artificial intelligence is reshaping law, public policy, institutions, work, and society with a focus on the governance challenges and opportunities facing Bangladesh and the Global South.
- 5 days
- In-person
- 40
- Participants per cohort
Artificial intelligence is moving from the technology sector into courts, government, workplaces, education, healthcare, finance, and everyday public life. For Bangladesh, the challenge is no longer whether AI will be adopted, but whether it will be adopted in ways that are accountable, lawful, inclusive, and responsive to local realities. The AI Governance Summer School was created to build the knowledge needed to navigate that transition.
AI governance is shaped by questions of law, policy, institutions, rights, infrastructure, and power. It is not shaped by technology alone. Yet many global approaches to AI governance are shaped by countries with greater technological, financial, and institutional resources, and do not always reflect the realities of countries like Bangladesh. This programme examines those global debates through a Bangladesh and Global South lens, connecting international developments with the legal, institutional, economic, and social realities that shape AI adoption locally.
Built for professionals shaping the future of AI governance
Lawyers & Legal Professionals
Legal practitioners advising on AI regulation, liability, compliance, data protection, digital rights, and emerging technology law.
Policymakers & Regulators
Government officials, regulators, and public-sector professionals involved in AI policy, regulation, technology governance, or institutional decision-making.
Technology & AI Professionals
Engineers, technical leads, and technology professionals seeking to understand how AI governance requirements translate into technical safeguards, monitoring, risk controls, and responsible deployment.
Compliance, Risk & Governance Professionals
Professionals working in compliance, risk, audit, trust and safety, or corporate governance who need to assess and manage emerging AI-related risks.
Researchers & Academics
Researchers, policy analysts, academics, and graduate-level scholars examining AI governance, technology policy, law, ethics, society, or related fields.
Civil Society, Media & Industry
Journalists, civil society professionals, technology-sector practitioners, and industry leaders seeking a rigorous understanding of AI's institutional, social, and regulatory implications.
No technical background is required. The programme is built for professionals who already hold responsibility in their field and now need a working command of how AI is governed — the law, the institutions, and the practical safeguards — alongside peers from law, policy, technology, and civil society.
By the end of the Summer School, participants will be able to:
- 01Understand how AI is affecting institutional governance, regulatory practice, and public policy, in Bangladesh and internationally.
- 02Identify the main regulatory, ethical, and institutional challenges raised by the development and deployment of AI systems.
- 03Compare different national and international approaches to AI governance, including those of the EU, the United States, and China, and assess their relevance to Bangladesh's own context.
- 04Assess how AI governance choices affect fairness, accountability, data sovereignty, and economic opportunity, with particular attention to conditions in Bangladesh and the wider Global South.
- 05Examine how governments, regulators, international organisations, and private-sector actors are responding to the opportunities and risks created by AI.
- 06Analyse key debates around AI safety, explainability, bias, and systemic risk, and their institutional implications.
- 07Explore the governance challenges linked to AI in financial services, public administration, and manufacturing sectors central to Bangladesh's digital economy.
- 08Apply conceptual and policy knowledge to real-world governance questions relevant to Bangladeshi and South Asian institutions.
Five modules. Five days. From understanding AI to designing governance.
Understanding AI
What AI actually is, how machine learning and generative AI work, and what governance leaders need to understand about the technology shaping institutions and society.
AI Opportunities & Bridging Divides
What AI is already changing across jobs, economies, public services, and institutions. And who has the resources, access, and power to shape and benefit from it.
Safe, Secure & Trustworthy AI
Why societies govern powerful technologies, the principles and regulatory approaches emerging around AI, and who is accountable when AI systems make decisions or act with increasing autonomy.
Human Rights, Accountability & Global South Equity
What AI governance looks like from Dhaka, Lagos, or Santiago rather than only from established technology powers. And whose rights, interests, and voices governance frameworks protect.
Future Challenges & Policy Design
What should Bangladesh do next? Participants apply what they have learned to develop practical governance recommendations for emerging AI challenges in their own institutional or sectoral context.
Learn from practitioners. Work through real governance problems.
Faculty are drawn from experienced practitioners, researchers, policymakers, technologists, and legal experts working across AI governance and its adjacent fields. Sessions combine expert-led teaching with comparative case studies, structured discussion, and applied exercises. Participants will move beyond theory to examine real governance challenges, test policy choices, and develop practical responses through workshops, simulations, and the final capstone.
Leading Perspectives on AI Governance
Barrister Tasnuva Shelley
Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney GeneralTasnuva Shelley is a legal professional and technology governance practitioner working at the intersection of law, AI, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. She serves as a Deputy Attorney General and is the Founder of Legalized Education Bangladesh Ltd., a legal-tech and civic-tech platform. She also serves as Programme Director of the AGO–UNDP Internship Programme and teaches Cyber Law and AI & Law at BRAC University.- QM
QAZI BOULAND MUSSABBIR
CEO, AgroshiftQazi Bouland Mussabbir is the CEO of a venture-backed company building digital infrastructure for agricultural trade, finance, and supply chains. He has raised US$2.5 million from global investors and led the company’s evolution into an AI-enabled infrastructure platform connecting farmers, financial institutions, enterprises, and government.
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DR MASRUR SALEKIN
District and Sessions JudgeBangladesh JudiciaryDr Masrur Salekin is a District and Sessions Judge in the Bangladesh Judiciary with twenty years of experience as a judge, teacher, researcher, and lawyer. He joined the Bangladesh Judiciary in 2008, presiding over civil, criminal, and family courts, and previously served as Senior Legal Counsel with BRAC. He holds a PhD in Law from the University of Galway (thesis: "Judicial Pro-Activism and Collaborative Constitutionalism: Ensuring Environmental Justice in India, Ireland, and Bangladesh"), earned as a Hardiman Scholar, and completed an LLM in International Law and Development in 2009-10 as a Chevening Scholar at the University of Nottingham. He has taught as adjunct faculty at several Bangladeshi universities for over twelve years and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law, Policy and Justice and as an Adviser to the Bangladesh Society of International Law. His research interests include environmental law, governance, rule of law, constitutional law, human rights, and economic law. - MR
Md. Tanzim Reza
Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BRAC UniversityMd. Tanzim Reza is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at BRAC University, where he has been teaching and conducting research since 2019. He also leads the BRAC University Learning Management System (buX) team. His research spans artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, federated learning, explainable AI, and intelligent systems, with research published in international journals including PLOS ONE, Scientific Reports, Computers in Biology and Medicine, and IEEE Access.
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SADMAN RAHMAN
Consultant, Decent Work in Supply ChainsInternational Labour OrganizationSadman Rahman is a Consultant at the International Labour Organization, working on decent work, trade and investments, and supporting the Government of Bangladesh on labour administration and working conditions. He coordinates the steering committee for Bangladesh's National AI Policy and serves as a Team Leader mentoring the Research Group at the Center for AI and Digital Policy. He has also worked as an international consultant with UNDP Somalia on economic development projects and previously as a Research Fellow at DataSense. He holds a degree from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs and regularly speaks on AI governance and digital policy across Bangladesh and the Asia-Pacific region. 
Dr. Md Sadek Ferdous
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BRAC University.Dr. Sadek Ferdous is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at BRAC University. His research focuses on self-sovereign identity, blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, identity and trust management, security, privacy, and usable security. He holds a PhD in Computing Science from the University of Glasgow and has extensive research and teaching experience in identity management, blockchain, and privacy-enhancing technologies.
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