Conor Grennan is a citizen of the US and Ireland. He grew up in Poughkeepsie, NY and Jersey City, NJ. Conor spent eight years at the EastWest Institute (EWI) in Prague and the EU Office in Brussels, focusing on peace and reconciliation in the Balkans. He left EWI in 2004 to volunteer in Nepal, where he started Next Generation Nepal (NGN), an organization dedicated to reconnecting trafficked children with their families.

Conor was based in Kathmandu, Nepal, until October 2007, when he returned to the US. He remains active in NGN and serves on the Board. Conor holds degrees from the University of Virginia and the NYU Stern School of Business. He currently lives in Connecticut with his wife and son.

Conor Grennan is also the Chief AI Architect at NYU Stern School of Business, building generative AI fluency across the institution. He is CEO and Founder of AI Mindset, an AI consulting company. Conor has worked with teams across various industries, including OpenAI, McKinsey, NASA, Google, Amazon, and more.

He is a NY Times and #1 international bestselling author, published in 15 languages, and a sought-after keynote speaker. His insights on AI have been featured in Entrepreneur, the Washington Post, BBC, Forbes, and Business Insider. Conor co-hosts the AI Applied Podcast and has over 100k followers on LinkedIn.

Outside of his work in AI, Conor was named a Huffington Post Game Changer for his humanitarian work with trafficked children in Nepal and received the Unsung Hero of Compassion Award by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 2014.