Dr Eva’s perspective on AI comes from building it. Her career spans mathematics, data science, AI architecture, production systems, enterprise transformation and institutional governance. She has worked in environments where AI is not a demonstration or innovation exercise, but part of systems in which reliability, security, accountability and operational control materially matter.
From mathematical foundations and data science to systems architecture and production AI that performs in complex operational contexts.
Turning AI from isolated experiments into sustainable, owned operating capability embedded inside real enterprise workflows.
Experience across government, banking, public-sector, public-safety and intelligence-related environments where failure carries material consequences.
Translating technical reality into consequential decisions for boards, governments, ministers and senior executive teams.
A senior operational career across global enterprise, institutional advisory and hands-on delivery.
Set technical AI strategy across one of the most operationally demanding regions in the world, guiding mission-critical enterprise implementations.
Built and led the regional practice, advising sovereign institutions, ministers, and C-suites on large-scale AI transformation and risk control.
Shaped production data science across audit, financial services, and risk engagements, establishing early enterprise standards.
Direct hands-on delivery of enterprise AI transformation, architecture, and organisational capability building.
International non-profit advancing global AI governance, sovereign readiness, and policy alignment with technical reality.
Harnessing media, data, and technology in service of the public interest and sustainable development goals worldwide.
Dr Eva does not advise from the sidelines. AI is still my operating work.
Through The Hummingbird Group, she remains directly involved in enterprise AI transformation, architecture, operating capability and hands-on implementation. The work focuses on making AI usable, sustainable and owned by the organisation — not creating dependency on large consulting teams.
Explore The Hummingbird Group →Three core principles distilled from more than a decade of building and scaling AI.
Technology is a tool. Start by defining what decision needs to improve, what evidence is required, and what changes when AI enters the process.
Explore Theme →AI, digital assets, satellite data, tokenisation and new financial infrastructure can accelerate action and capital. They cannot compensate for weak evidence or an indefensible underlying case.
Explore Theme →Models matter. So do ownership, data, incentives, operating capability, architecture, governance and the organisation’s ability to sustain what it deploys.
Explore Theme →
From AI Ambition to Operational Success
Dr Eva’s forthcoming book examines one of the central problems facing organisations adopting AI: why technical progress so often fails to become operational success.
Drawing on more than a decade of building, scaling and governing AI, the book provides a rigorous approach to moving from AI ambition to systems organisations can actually operate, evidence and rely upon.
Learn More & Register for Updates →Dr Eva speaks to executive, government and technical audiences about what it actually takes to make AI work — technically, operationally and institutionally. She lands the questions boards, executives, and policy leaders most need answered.
Dr Eva will be in New York during UNGA High-Level Week for selected meetings, events and media conversations.
Select the engagement pathway that fits your institutional need.
Keynotes, closed-room board briefings, and executive sessions on AI implementation, governance, and operating reality.
Speaking Enquiry →On-the-record commentary for print, television, podcasts and digital media where technical accuracy matters.
Media Request →Hands-on enterprise AI transformation, architecture and organizational capability delivered through The Hummingbird Group.
Advisory Enquiry →Direct scheduling for high-level meetings, bilateral discussions, and private convenings during UNGA Week.
Meeting Request →