Professor Karl A. Roberts advises Ecoheart on global public safety and ethical AI strategy. He is Head of the School of Health and Professor of Health and Wellbeing at the University of New England, NSW, Australia. A behavioral scientist (forensic psychology) and medical statistician, Karl is committed to multidisciplinary approaches to health, wellbeing policy, and practice.
Karl has over thirty years' experience working in academia at institutions in Australia, the UK, and USA. He has acted as an advisor for various international bodies and governments on issues related to wellbeing, violence prevention, and professional practice. This includes working with policing agencies on suicide, stalking, and homicide prevention; Interpol on organizational responses to biological weapon use; the UK government SAGE advisory group throughout the Covid-19 pandemic; the European Union on biological terrorism and extremist use of AI; and the World Health Organisation developing policy related to deliberate biological threat events.
His honorary appointments include Adjunct Professor of Pacific Policing at the University of the South Pacific, Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Future of Knowledge at University of Johannesburg, and adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts. He has held honorary teaching roles at Oxford, Harvard, and Brown Universities.
Karl holds a BSc (Hons) in Psychology, MSc in Forensic Psychology, MSc in Medical Statistics, and PhD in Psychology. He is an Associate Fellow and Chartered Forensic Psychologist of the British Psychological Society, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a trained hostage negotiator, and has completed the Harvard negotiations program. He is certified as an expert witness in the UK and by the New South Wales Supreme Court.
At Ecoheart, Professor Roberts ensures our platform development considers the full range of potential impacts on health security, helping us build safeguards that protect communities while enabling beneficial AI applications.