IEET Leadership
![James Hughes](http://web.archive.org./web/20240704125800im_/http://ieet.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/de5d10c2a822f3935fcd91e488d947af_715__2-1-e1601837546640.jpg)
James HughesExecutive Director and Co-Founder
James Hughes Ph.D., the Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, is a bioethicist and sociologist who serves as the Associate Provost for Institutional Research, Assessment and Planning for the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Steven UmbrelloManaging Director
Steven Umbrello currently serves as the Managing Director at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He studied philosophy of science and technology at the University of Toronto and ethics at the University of Edinburgh. Currently, he is doing his Ph.D. in the ethics and design of AI at the University of Turin.
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Marcelo RinesiChief Technology Officer
Marcelo Rinesi is the IEET’s Chief Technology Officer and former Assistant Director. He is a freelance Data Intelligence Analyst. He is also a fiction writer and has published a short SF novella The Ontociders and a collection of SF short stories, The Fatou Entries.