AI GOVERNANCE · WORKFORCE TRANSFORMATION

Helping institutions move from AI pilots to governed transformation.

Qiqing He works at the intersection of AI governance, workforce transformation, education, and public-interest institutions, translating technical change into institutional readiness.

  • Founder · AI Education & Workforce Transformation Policy Observatory
  • World Economic Forum Agenda Contributor

Selected work includes World Economic Forum analysis, cross-country AI education dialogues, and policy-facing briefs on AI workforce transformation.

Portrait of Qiqing He

Why this work matters now

Between 2024 and 2030, AI will move from a software category to institutional infrastructure. Labour markets will reorganise. Schools will be asked to redesign what they teach. Governments and firms will need new capacity to govern systems they do not fully control.

“The question is no longer whether AI will reshape work and learning. It is whether institutions will be ready — or redesigned around it by default.”

Working notes, 2026

Selected Evidence of Work

A curated record of published writing, policy briefs, case signals, convenings, and World Economic Forum contributions on AI governance, workforce transformation, education, and institutional readiness.

Three ways I work

01

Writing & analysis

Policy essays, briefs, and frameworks on AI, education, workforce transformation, and institutional readiness.

02

Convening & dialogue

Cross-country conversations with educators, practitioners, youth leaders, researchers, enterprise leaders, and institutional actors.

03

Advisory work

Support for organizations moving from AI experimentation to governed, human-centred adoption.

Questions institutions now have to answer

AI adoption is becoming an operating-model question, not only a technology decision.

Strategic question

From pilots to governed adoption

How should organizations redesign workflows, roles, and governance before scaling AI?

Strategic question

From AI literacy to institutional capability

What should leaders, managers, teachers, and public officials actually understand?

Strategic question

From tools to operating models

What changes when AI becomes embedded in daily institutional workflows?

Strategic question

From education policy to workforce readiness

What should education systems teach when cognitive work is being reshaped?

Strategic question

CURRENT SIGNAL · AI AS INSTITUTIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE

When AI becomes embedded infrastructure, governance, procurement, and accountability have to move from pilots to operating models.

Strategic question

CURRENT SIGNAL · WORKFORCE REDESIGN AS INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN

Workforce transition is not a training problem alone. It is a redesign of the institutions that organise roles, workflows, and legitimacy.

Strategic question

CURRENT SIGNAL · PUBLIC CAPACITY FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

Public institutions need the internal capacity to evaluate, commission, and contest systems they are expected to govern in the public interest.

Credibility signals

A selective set of institutional signals and concrete outputs.

  • Platform

    Founder

    AI Education and Workforce Transformation Policy Observatory

    Built an independent platform focused on practical institutional readiness for AI in education, workforce transformation, and governance.

    2024
  • Global policy

    Agenda Contributor

    World Economic Forum ecosystem

    Published policy analysis on AI, education, work, and institutional design.

    2026
  • Convening

    Convener · AI, education, and workforce dialogues

    International and online multi-stakeholder rooms

    Convened decision-makers, researchers, youth leaders, and operators around implementation questions.

    2024-2026
  • Advisory

    Advisor · AI governance & workforce transformation

    Institutional and enterprise advisory work

    Support for organizations moving from scattered pilots to governed, measurable, human-centred AI adoption.

    2026

Focus areas

Four connected questions shape my current work.

Formats of collaboration

Selected formats for institutional conversations, policy rooms, and expert dialogue.

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