Saniye Gülser Corat is a strategic advisor to Coopersmith Law + Strategy for multi-lateral organizations, technology, education, and gender equality.

Gülser served as Director of Gender Equality at UNESCO in Paris for sixteen years, retiring in 2020.  She led the landmark study on the role of gender bias in artificial intelligence, I’d Blush if I Could: Closing Gender Divides in Digital Skills in Education published in March 2019 and a sequel, Artificial Intelligence and Gender Equality, published in August 2020. The studies, the first systematic, scientifically reliable on the subject, found inadvertent, widespread gender bias in the most popular artificial intelligence tools for consumers and businesses.

In 2022, Gulser was invited to become a Member of the Expert Group on Interlinkages of energy with other UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), SDG7 Technical Advisory Group (SDG7 TAG) convened by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

During her time at UNESCO, Gülser convinced its 195 member states to recognize gender equity as a global priority for the organization and forged the first-ever path to gender parity among UNESCO senior leadership. She helped lead important global campaigns including efforts to recognize gender impacts of climate and sustainability initiatives; improve girls’ education and digital skills; protect the safety of women journalists; and promote the advancement of women in science. Gülser worked extensively with many UN agencies, including UNHCR, ILO, ITU, UNCTAD, and ITC.

Gülser’s work exerts enormous influence in the tech industry and among policymakers and the general public. She gave a keynote address on gender bias and AI at the Web Summit in Lisbon, the largest annual global technology conference, in 2019 and has interviewed with hundreds of media outlets, including the BBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, NYT, The Guardian, Forbes, and Time Magazine. She speaks around the world to government ministries, global technology and finance firms, and NGOs.

For CLS, Gülser guides global technology companies on product design and development using an equity lens. She advises multinationals on how to engage with multilaterals and NGOs, especially on climate change, sustainability, and ensuring that the “G” in ESG stands for gender equity as well as governance.

In 2020, Gülser won Women in Tech’s “Global Leadership Award” and Apolitical named her one of the “100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy.”

In 2021, Gülser was runner-up to be selected as the head of UN Women, garnering support from a wide array of multilateral leaders, member states, and NGOs.

She serves on the boards of Women’s Leadership Academy in China, Kobe University in Japan, University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Global Women’s Leadership Project in the US, and Exponent, an international gender equality think tank. Gülser earned graduate degrees in International Political Economy from Carleton University in Ontario and in European Union/Regional Economic Integration from the College of Europe in Belgium. She holds Executive Education certificates from the Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School.

Gülser is a native Turkish speaker fluent in French and English. She is based in Paris.