Amanda Stanhaus

Focus Areas: AI Governance, Responsible Innovation, Data Ethics, Data Privacy

Amanda Stanhaus translates ethical principles into practice. She is Pearson’s Lead of
Responsible AI.

Amanda’s expertise stems from a portfolio of industry and academic experiences examining the
ethical implications of socio-technical systems and charting a responsible path forward. At SAS
and Accenture, she advised client as well as in-house efforts regarding Responsible AI. Her
Responsible Innovation career was sparked as a strategist for J.P. Morgan’s Blockchain Center
of Excellence that open-sourced Quorum, a privacy-preserving version of Ethereum that
incorporated zero-knowledge proofs.

Amanda’s awards include the National Human Genome Research Institute’s Ethical, Legal, and
Social Implications of Genetic and Genomic Research Fellowship as well as an Executive
Fellowship with the World Economic Forum’s Digital Trust Initiative.

Amanda holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her dissertation conducted a bioethics
examination of health information flows. And she holds a B.A. in Economics and North
American Studies from McGill University.