Ash Frsa
Treasurer (Executive) at Salzburg Global Seminar
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAsh Frsa is an entrepreneur, author and impact-focused AI founder with a decade of experience building organizations at the intersection of AI, democracy and social change. He leads Electric Sheep, a global learning platform for ethical AI, co-founded high-impact initiatives like Civic AI and CERUA, and serves as Treasurer at Rethink Priorities, blending policy, strategy and governance across London, Berlin and the Bay Area. A former Director of Economy at the RSA, he helped pioneer democratic deliberation in AI policy (co-founding the Forum for Ethical AI with DeepMind) and has a track record of launching accelerators and dual-use innovation programmes. His writing and broadcast work, plus a PhD in AI and applied economics, reflect a rare mix of narrative craft and technical-economic thinking; one telling aphorism from his GitHub bio—“More you know, more you hesitate”—hints at a reflective, precautionary approach to tech.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Law, Law at University of OxfordDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, AI and applied economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, AI and applied economics at University of LondonMaster's Degree, Creative Writing and Literary Modernism, Master's Degree, Creative Writing and Literary Modernism at University of East Anglia
Stackoverflow
4,327reputation
1.1mreached
46answers
10questions
docker
top-5%
visual-studio-code
top-5%
Github Skills (42)
visual-studio-code9
docker9
gocardless9
backend8
macos6
react6
python-client6
homebrew6
django-rest-framework6
ruby-client6
docker-build6
python6
ruby6
django6
git6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ashdaily/traveller
Apr 2017 - May 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 8 pushes in 4 years 2 months
ashdaily/turbocommerce
Oct 2020 - Jan 2022
Turbocommerce is a demonstration of e-commerce backend and frontend built with Django/DRF and ReactJS.
Contributions:41 reviews, 214 commits, 107 PRs in 1 year 3 months
reactdrfecommercecommercedjango-rest-framework
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.