Professor Ashley Braganza is Director of Brunel’s Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Chair of Organisational Transformation at Brunel University of London. He has held various leadership roles, including Dean of Brunel Business School, Deputy Dean of the College of Business, Arts and Social Science and Head of the Department of Economics and Finance. He is a Fellow of the British Academy of Management and a Trustee of the Industry Parliamentary Trust.  He received the 2024 Sustainability Leadership in Education award.

Professor Braganza is a recognised expert in artificial intelligence (AI) and digital transformation.  He created The AI Adoption Podcast in April 2025 (available on Spotify, Apple Podcast and YouTube).  He is the Founder of Brunel’s interdisciplinary Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, launched in 2018, which incorporates a dedicated AI Lab and are part of the wider Brunel’s AI Ecosystem.  The Centre has been awarded grants in excess of £3.5 million.  Most recently, Professor Braganza is part of a consortium that has won a €5.8 million bid to develop a voice LLM in 26 languages as part of the ELOQUENCE EU project (2024-2027). He devised and launched the first non-technical Masters in AI Strategy, which is aimed at training the next generation of AI business leaders.