Born in Iran and based in Paris, Moojan Asghari is a serial entrepreneur, technologist, activist, public speaker, and a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion. In 2017, Moojan founded the global nonprofit of Women in AI, an organization across +150 countries with +15,000 members worldwide, to encourage women to take part in the field of Artificial Intelligence and embrace the opportunities of this technology.
She is the founder of Thousand Faces, a funding platform to enable female founders to raise capital and build impact-driven companies, focused on the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. With over 8000 community members, Thousand Faces is on the mission to democratize funding for female entrepreneurs and to bring more inclusion and diversity to the Ventures Capital world by training emerging female investors. She hosts the Thousand Voices Podcast, where she interviews top female leaders across the globe to share their inspiring stories.
She has served on the advisory board of ARCEP, UNESCO, Greentech Alliance, and the European Parliament on the Future of Technologies Gender Diversity and Inclusion. She co-chaired the Gender Committee at AI4EU, a European Commission-funded project.
Moojan was ranked as Europe’s Top 100 most influential Women in Startups and VC by EU-Startups, World’s Most Influential Artificial Intelligence Leaders by Blue Yonder, and 115 most inspiring Women of Web3 and Metaverse by Unstoppable WOW3.
Moojan has spoken at over 100 events with over 10K+ attendees on five continents. She is fluent in English, French, and Persian.
Moojan has a bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology, and a double degree in Master’s in Management and MSC in Corporate Finance and Banking from EDHEC Business School in France.
