Recognised as one of the top women in AI, Toju is a popular speaker, author, thought leader, advisor, and entrepreneur with over 20 years experience spanning across Advertising, Retail, Not-For Profit and Tech. Toju worked at Google for 10 years where she spent the last couple of years as a Programme Manager on Responsible AI leading various Responsible AI programmes across Google’s product and research teams with a primary focus on large-scale models and Responsible AI processes. Prior to her time  on Google’s research organisation, Toju was the EMEA product lead for Google Travel and worked as a specialist across Google Travel and Shopping.

Toju is the founder and CEO of Bedrock AI  an AI product and services company focused on AI research, model and product development using the underlying principles of Responsible AI. Bedrock AI’s mission is to democratise and develop responsible AI through community participatory research, AI development and responsible AI tooling and infrastructure, making AI technologies accessible, safe, trustworthy and beneficial.

Toju is also the founder of Diverse AI, a community interest organisation with a mission to support and champion underrepresented groups to build a diverse and inclusive AI future. Toju was previously the UK lead for Women in AI, a non-profit global organisation with a mission to drive gender diversity in AI.

Toju’s dedication and commitment to the development and deployment of Responsible AI practices led to the writing of her book “Building Responsible AI Algorithms” which has been adopted by several universities globally. 

Building on the work introduced in Toju’s first book, her second book “Responsible AI in Practice” co-authored with Prof Paolo Giudici provides in-depth guidance on ML model and application evaluation for ML practitioners and is the first practical book on AI risk assessment and management. 

Toju leads new novel research on responsible AI practices for Generative AI amongst others, working with academia and industry professionals. She is currently on the programme committee for the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence / Association of Computing Machinery (AAAI / ACM) conference on AI, Ethics and Society 2025.

Toju provides advisory on Responsible AI practices and AI business transformation to organisations interested in driving innovation and profit, while building trust and delivers training, workshops and courses on AI. 

Toju has been featured across several national and international media outlets such as the BBC, Sky News, Al Jazeera, CGTN America, El Pais, La Nacion, La Vanguardia, Sifted etc,. Toju has been recognised as one of the top women in AI by several media outlets. Toju also participates in high level AI policy dialogues and advises governments on AI strategies.