Dr Eva-Marie Muller-Stuler

MAKING AI WORK.
From engineering to the boardroom.

Dr Eva-Marie Muller-Stuler is a mathematician, AI systems architect and active AI operator who has spent more than a decade building and scaling AI across global enterprises, governments and high-consequence environments.

Today, through The Hummingbird Group, she remains directly involved in transforming organisations and leading hands-on AI implementation.

Dr Eva-Marie Muller-Stuler
IBM
Former CTO for AI
Middle East & Africa
EY
Former Lead Partner
Data & AI, MENA
KPMG
Former Chief Data Scientist
London
Operational Heritage

BUILT, NOT JUST DISCUSSED.

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.

i. Technology

Mathematical Rigour & Engineering

From mathematical foundations and data science to systems architecture and production AI that performs in complex operational contexts.

ii. Implementation

Operating Capability

Turning AI from isolated experiments into sustainable, owned operating capability embedded inside real enterprise workflows.

iii. High-Consequence

Mission-Critical Contexts

Experience across government, banking, public-sector, public-safety and intelligence-related environments where failure carries material consequences.

iv. Leadership

Executive & Board Judgment

Translating technical reality into consequential decisions for boards, governments, ministers and senior executive teams.

Track Record

Where the experience comes from.

A senior operational career across global enterprise, institutional advisory and hands-on delivery.

IBM
Former CTO for AI, MEA

Set technical AI strategy across one of the most operationally demanding regions in the world, guiding mission-critical enterprise implementations.

EY
Former Lead Partner, Data & AI, MENA

Built and led the regional practice, advising sovereign institutions, ministers, and C-suites on large-scale AI transformation and risk control.

KPMG
Former Chief Data Scientist, London

Shaped production data science across audit, financial services, and risk engagements, establishing early enterprise standards.

The Hummingbird Group
Founder & Active Operator

Direct hands-on delivery of enterprise AI transformation, architecture, and organisational capability building.

The Future Society
Board Member

International non-profit advancing global AI governance, sovereign readiness, and policy alignment with technical reality.

PVBLIC Foundation
Board Member

Harnessing media, data, and technology in service of the public interest and sustainable development goals worldwide.

Active Execution “

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.

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Current Thinking

Ideas grounded in operational reality.

Three core principles distilled from more than a decade of building and scaling AI.

01.

Good AI starts with the decision, not the technology.

Technology is a tool. Start by defining what decision needs to improve, what evidence is required, and what changes when AI enters the process.

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02.

Technology cannot manufacture credibility.

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.

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03.

AI implementation is an organisational problem as much as a technical one.

Models matter. So do ownership, data, incentives, operating capability, architecture, governance and the organisation’s ability to sustain what it deploys.

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Decision Quality AI by Dr Eva-Marie Muller-Stuler
Forthcoming Book

Decision Quality AI

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.

Status Forthcoming
Core Focus Operational Success
Earlier Work Responsible AI Product Development (2024)
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Keynotes & Briefings

FROM THE ENGINEERING ROOM TO THE BOARDROOM.

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.

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Dr Eva-Marie Muller-Stuler speaking on stage
High-Level Week 2026

NEW YORK · UNGA HIGH-LEVEL WEEK 2026

Dr Eva will be in New York during UNGA High-Level Week for selected meetings, events and media conversations.

  • Enterprise and government AI implementation
  • Consequential AI systems and operational control
  • AI and institutional transformation
  • Agentic and autonomous AI
  • AI, climate evidence and finance
  • Moving AI from ambition into production
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Currently

Current Engagements & Momentum

New York UNGA High-Level Week 2026 engagements
Mongolia Recent COP17 engagement and sovereign capability work
Forthcoming Book Decision Quality AI — From AI Ambition to Operational Success
Hummingbird Group Active enterprise AI transformation and production delivery
Direct Access

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Speaking

Book Dr Eva to Speak

Keynotes, closed-room board briefings, and executive sessions on AI implementation, governance, and operating reality.

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Broadcast & Press

Request a Media Interview

On-the-record commentary for print, television, podcasts and digital media where technical accuracy matters.

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Enterprise & Sovereign

Discuss an AI Engagement

Hands-on enterprise AI transformation, architecture and organizational capability delivered through The Hummingbird Group.

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New York Availability

Meet in New York

Direct scheduling for high-level meetings, bilateral discussions, and private convenings during UNGA Week.

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