Global Registry of
Institute-Recognized Experts™A formal register maintained by the Institute, recognizing senior experts whose work demonstrates systems-level judgment, institutional accountability, and sustained contribution in complex or high-consequence environments.
Founding Advisory Board
The following experts serve in a strategic, non-operational advisory capacity and constitute the founding members of the RSIT Global Registry. Recognition reflects professional standing only and does not confer academic, faculty, or governance authority within the Institute.
Aksinya Staar
Aksinya Staar is a principal expert, futurist, and interdisciplinary strategist whose work advances polymathic thinking as a practical framework for navigating complexity, uncertainty, and long-term transformation. Her work synthesizes learning science, organizational behavior, foresight, and cultural dynamics to support institutional resilience, adaptability, and responsible innovation. She brings a cross-sector perspective that bridges the human dimensions of systems change with the demands of AI-era governance.
Douglas Keevers
Dr. Douglas Keevers is a senior governance expert specializing in AI governance, cybersecurity, and institutional trust architecture. His work focuses on designing audit-ready, compliance-aware digital systems that balance innovation with accountability in regulated environments. He brings a rigorous, policy-grounded perspective to the challenge of governing AI at institutional scale — where technical capability and organizational trust must be designed together, not retrofitted.
Pankaj Mehrotra
Dr. Pankaj Mehrotra brings a rigor-driven perspective on machine learning, advanced analytics, and enterprise-scale AI systems, focusing on performance trade-offs, scalability, and long-term institutional value. His expertise spans the full arc from algorithmic design to operational deployment, with particular focus on the organizational conditions that determine whether AI systems deliver durable value or generate compounding technical debt.
George Vigil
Dr. George Vigil is a senior academic and executive leader whose work centers on leadership coherence, executive governance, and institutional transformation in AI-enabled environments. He emphasizes long-term organizational purpose and institutional trust as the governing principles of responsible AI adoption — arguing that transformation without a coherent leadership architecture produces disruption, not progress. His dual doctoral background bridges the rigor of research with the demands of executive practice.
Pedro Nunes
Dr. Pedro Nunes brings an international, policy-aware perspective on innovation governance and digital transformation, focusing on institutional legitimacy, scalability, and long-term societal impact. His work operates at the intersection of technology strategy and public policy — examining how institutions can build the governance capacity required to make AI deployment not merely effective, but defensible across regulatory, ethical, and civic dimensions.
Thomas Lauritzen
Dr. Thomas Lauritzen specializes in aligning advanced AI capabilities with governance, sustainability, and institutional integrity across multi-stakeholder environments. His work addresses the structural challenge of deploying AI at enterprise scale without sacrificing the oversight architectures that make such deployment accountable — a challenge he approaches through both technical depth and organizational strategy.
John Ferguson
Dr. John Ferguson focuses on the human dimensions of transformation, emphasizing leadership readiness, cultural coherence, and ethical grounding in AI-driven change. He brings an organizational psychology perspective to the governance challenge: arguing that AI systems do not fail in isolation — they fail within cultural and leadership environments that were never designed to govern them. His work equips institutions to build those environments deliberately.
Cantekin Ertekin
Dr. Cantekin Ertekin specializes in algorithmic robustness, interpretability, and system-level behavior of AI models operating under real-world constraints. His work examines how machine learning systems perform outside laboratory conditions — where data is messy, distributions shift, and the cost of failure is institutional rather than theoretical. He brings computational rigor to governance questions that too often remain abstract.
Inclusion in the RSIT Global Registry of Institute-Recognized Experts™ reflects professional recognition only. It does not constitute a degree, diploma, academic appointment, teaching role, faculty status, or participation in RSIT Signature Series programs. Recognition is granted for a fixed term, subject to annual review, and may be revoked if conduct becomes inconsistent with Institute standards. This registry operates independently of RSIT's degree-granting functions, academic governance activities, and institutional accreditation stack.

