Bonnie Lei

Name: Daring Circles Sessions 2021
Start: 2021-03-17T16:00:00+01:00
End: 2021-03-25T20:00:00+01:00

Head of Global Strategic Partnerships - AI for Earth

Microsoft

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Biography

Bonnie Lei is a founding member and Head of Global Strategic Partnerships for Microsoft’s AI for Earth program, a $50 million cross-company effort delivering technology-enabled solutions to global environmental challenges. In this role, she has awarded 750+ grants in 100+ countries, is helping build the first Planetary Computer, and leads Microsoft’s effort to protect more land than it uses by 2025. Previously, she helped initiate the marine program for Wildlife Conservation Society in Myanmar, discovered a new sea slug species in the Caribbean, and researched climate adaptation of endangered penguins in South Africa.