Bio
Nana Mgbechikwere Nwachukwu is a PhD researcher at Trinity College Dublin working at the intersection of AI policy, governance, and accountability. She designs practical frameworks that help organizations translate legal rules, rights, and transparency requirements into technical systems. She calls it “legal engineering.” Nwachukwu has advised governments, multilateral agencies, nonprofits, and startups on ethical AI policy, documentation, and trust-and-safety strategy, and she consults across AI, blockchain, DAOs, and digital transformation. A former Research Affiliate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, she brings cross-sector experience from partnerships in 10+ countries. She has facilitated 100+ digital events for 16+ global organizations and remains active in community initiatives, including the Digital Democracy Initiative and Tostan.
As part of her 2026–2027 ICDE Fellowship, Nana Mgbechikwere Nwachukwu will map payment infrastructures and platform chokepoints in the African digital creator economy, documenting how dependencies on APIs, payment systems, and algorithmic visibility undermine cooperative autonomy, and developing technical foundations for creator-led cooperative infrastructure alternatives.