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Professor B. Mairéad Pratschke is founder and principal of an independent advisory practice (Mairead Pratschke Ltd) working at the intersection of AI strategy, governance, design, and education. Her work is focused on designing future-ready learning systems that align human expertise with intelligent technologies. Mairéad works with governments, institutions, and organisations internationally to rethink learning models and lead systems-level change, aligning programmes and pedagogy with the future of work, learning, and society. Prof. Pratschke is the author of Generative AI and Education: Digital Pedagogies, Teaching Innovation and Learning Design (Springer, 2024); New Horizons for Higher Education: Teaching and Learning with Generative AI (NDLN, 2025); and a chapter in the forthcoming Handbook on Generative AI and Education: From Research to Practice (Springer, 2026). She is Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Data Science Institute; External Advisory Board member and Research Fellow at the US National Science Foundation-funded AI Institute for Adult Education and Online Learning (AI-ALOE); and member of the Executive Committee (EC) for the AI-MetaACES conference series - the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Metaverse and Artificial Companions in Education and Society, one of the Theme-Based International Conference Series (TBICS) organised under the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (https://apsce.net/). Website: https://maireadpratschke.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maireadpratschke/

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