Inbar Karo

Head of Social Inside, JDC

Inbal Karo specializes in the social implications of technology and AI, focusing on how technological design and implementation affect fairness, inclusion, safety, digital rights, and sustainability. She heads Social Inside at JDC Israel, developing methodologies, practical tools, training, and partnerships to integrate social considerations into technology development, working with government, industry, academia, and civil society.

Previously, Inbal served as Director of National Academic Affairs at the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C., promoting Israeli–American academic collaboration and coordinating academic affairs across North America. Before that, she spent over a decade in Israel’s intelligence community, leading methodological development for data-driven problem solving. 

In addition to her work at JDC, Inbal is a senior research fellow at the Harkabi Institute for the Research of Intelligence Methodology, a fellow at ForHumanity, an international organization which focuses on AI governance and ethics, and an organizer of FemTech Israel.