Contributors Justine Gauthier General Counsel; Head, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance, MILA – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute Francesca Rossi IBM Fellow; Global Leader, Responsible AI and AI Governance, IBM Arun Sundararajan Harold Price Professor, Entrepreneurship and Technology, Stern School of Business, New York University; GFC co-chair Lauren Woodman Chief Executive Officer, DataKind; GFC co-chair Rachel Adams Founder; CEO, Global Center on AI Governance Kathy Baxter Principal Architect, Responsible AI and Technology, Salesforce Alberto Giovanni Busetto Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, HealthAI Nighat Dad Founder; Executive Director, Digital Rights Foundation Sandhya Devanathan Head; Vice-President, Meta India, Meta Platforms Sara Hooker Vice-President, Research, Cohere Maui Hudson Associate Professor; Director, Te Kotahi Research Institute, University of Waikato Kathrin Gabriele Kind Chief Data Scientist, Cognizant Technology Solutions Jae Lee Co-Founder; Chief Executive Officer, Twelve Labs Zhang Linghan Professor, Institute of Data Rule of Law, China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) Vukosi Marivate Chair, Data Science and Professor of Computer Science, University of Pretoria; Co-founder, Lelapa AI Graciela Márquez Colín President, National Institute of Statistics and Geography, Mexico Angela Oduor Lungati Executive Director, Ushahidi Fawad Qureshi Global Field Chief Technology Officer, Snowflake Crystal Rugege Managing Director, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Rwanda Anna Tumadóttir Chief Executive Officer, Creative CommonsLead authors MembersGlobal Future Council on Data Frontiers 2025-2026 Synthetic Data: The New Data Frontier 11

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