Caitlin Kraft-Buchman

Caitlin Kraft-Buchman is CEO/Founder Women at the Table, a gender equality & systems change think tank based in Switzerland. She is Co-Founder of <A+> Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms, a multidisciplinary coalition of academics, activists, technologists prototyping the future of artificial intelligence which she co-leads with Code for Africa.

<A+> Alliance is a leader of the UN’s Generation Equality Action Coalition: Technology & Innovation for Gender Equality, and was co-chair of the 2023 Expert Group for CSW67, the UN Commission on the Status of Women with its first ever priority theme of Technology & Innovation. She was a member of the CSW70 Expert Group in 2026 as author of Judicial Algorithms & Gender Bias.

Caitlin also founded and leads the <AI & Equality> Human Rights Toolbox initiative, a global community of 750+ member researchers from 57 countries working for a human rights-based approach to AI.

Caitlin is co-founder of the International Gender Champions, with hubs in Geneva, New York, Vienna, Nairobi, The Hague & Paris bringing together female & male heads of organizations, including the UN Secretary-General, to break down gender barriers, and serves on the IGC Global Board. She co-leads the IGC Impact Group on Digital and New Emerging Technologies with Doreen Bogdan Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union. She was a member of the Network of Experts for the UN Secretary General’s AI Advisory Body + member of the Gender & AI Advisory Group for the AI Summit Paris 2025. She co-chairs the Gender Advisory Board for the UN Commission on Science & Technology for Development (CSTD), is one of Team of Specialists for Gender Responsive Standards for the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), is a member of UNESCO’s WomenForEthicalAI working group, as well as one of UNESCO’s AI Experts Without Borders. She serves as Co-Civil Society lead for the World Benchmarking Alliance Collective Impact Coalition for Ethical AI.

Founding President of Women at the Table
Participation in the sessions of the Forum
2026
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