Emmanuel Chilima
Artificial Intelligence Subject Matter Expert Global Ai Centre of Excellence @Unilever
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WORK HISTORY
Artificial Intelligence Subject Matter Expert Global Ai Centre of Excellence @Unilever
Developed and deployed Unilever\'s Global AI Red Teaming Framework in Q1 2025, with a focus on Generative AI risk categories. Introduced new vertical-specific risk indicators and operationalised SOPs to support rapid-response assessments across the AI development lifecycle.• Coordinated the AI Design Board from Dec 2023 to Present, overseeing the review and approval of 100+ custom Gen AI systems, ensuring ethical design principles were embedded from ideation to deployment across functions including Legal, Marketing, Supply Chain, and HR.• Designed and co-facilitated AI training programs for 800+ colleagues between Nov 2023 – Jun 2025, promoting responsible AI usage, ethical tool selection, and productivity adoption through real-world workflows.• Integrated ethical compliance gates into five consumer-facing Enterprise Generative AI initiatives by collaborating closely with Legal, Privacy, and Cybersecurity teams between 2023–2025, ensuring alignment with both Unilever\'s internal policies and emerging international AI governance standards.
EDUCATION
University of Bradford
MSc Applied Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, Data Science
University of Malawi
Bachelors of Social Science, Economics
SKILLS
ABOUT EMMANUEL CHILIMA
Ten years working at the intersection of data, AI, and enterprise systems. Today, that means designing, governing, and deploying agentic AI at scale.At Unilever, I serve as the coordinator of the Global AI Design Board, the senior governance body that reviews, challenges, and approves custom-built Generative AI solutions before they reach production. Working directly with business units, architects, legal, and privacy teams, I ensure every AI initiative is technically sound, ethically aligned, and compliant with Unilever\'s corporate standards and the EU AI Act. That means real governance work: design reviews, risk assessments, architectural challenge, and sign-off on AI deployments at enterprise scale.Beyond governance, I build. I architected and fully operationalised Unilever\'s Gen AI red teaming framework — the adversarial testing standard applied to every high risk Gen AI release across the business. I have shipped production agentic systems across multiple cloud stacks: an Email Triage Agent on n8n and Google, an Enquiry Triage system on Azure Logic Apps and AI Foundry, a Voice Agent on Firebase Studio, Google Genkit, and Cloud Run, and a multi-agent Text-to-SQL reasoning system for querying financial market data with deterministic, auditable outputs.I am proficient across the major agentic orchestration frameworks: Microsoft Agent Framework SDK, LangChain, LangGraph, Databricks Agent Framework, and Google Agent SDK. Current work includes building AI-ready semantic models for enterprise-scale deterministic reasoning and authoring strategic guidelines on agentic AI quality control and observability.Responsible AI is not a compliance checkbox. It is an architectural decision made at the start.#AgenticAI #EnterpriseAI #ResponsibleAI #AIGovernance #LLM
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