Dr. Prag Sharma is Director at Citi Institute’s Future of Finance, focusing on Emerging Technologies. As one of the distinguished Citi Tech Fellows globally, Prag is a Subject Matter Expert and the primary driver of Citi Institute’s thought-leadership on cutting-edge technologies, including in Generative and Agentic AI.
Prag previously led Citi’s Global Artificial Intelligence Centre of Excellence (AI CoE). The AI CoE led the development of Citi-wide best-practices from a Governance, Risk & Controls and Technology perspective in AI, addressed AI-related infrastructure and tooling needs across the organisation and enabled state-of-the-art AI design, development and use at Citi across all its businesses. Prag has led R&D teams and technology consultants in both industry and academia for over 15 years, working on emerging technologies with start-ups and multinationals in the Financial Services, Health, Technology and Pharmaceutical sectors. Prag holds a PhD in Machine Learning (Computer Vision) and an MBA, majoring in Innovation.