The authors

Four disciplines, one pillar

Diplomacy, enterprise architecture, small-state sovereignty and AI risk governance, written as a single operating manual.

Business professionals in serious discussion inside an office, representing the cross-disciplinary author team
Author profiles

The people behind the blueprint


Portrait of Dr Syed Muntasir Mamun

Dr Syed Muntasir Mamun, PhD, PGD (Oxon)

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh

Diplomat and digital-governance leader, and architect of the book's diplomatic and institutional vision, including the Dhaka Declaration and the Digital Bandung movement. His work places low-income nations at the centre of global AI rule-making, connecting foreign ministries, development partners and technical communities.

Portrait of Riaz Faride

Riaz Faride

SAP

Enterprise technology and architecture specialist who leads the book's technical blueprints spanning DePIN networks, the Sovereign Compute Token and edge-resilient infrastructure. His chapters translate the triple-lock vision into deployable systems that policymakers and financiers can cost, sequence and govern.

Portrait of Eric Hansel

Eric Hansel

BluCommons; Permanent Mission of the Commonwealth of Dominica to the UN

Founder of BluCommons who drives the book's ecological digital-asset agenda and small-state sovereignty perspective. His work links ocean stewardship, digital assets and development finance in service of resilient island and coastal economies with a voice in global AI governance.

Portrait of Prof. Markus Krebsz

Prof. Markus Krebsz

UNECE WP.6 AI Project Lead; Human-Ai.Institute™

Creator of the EW-AiRM™ Enterprise-Wide AI Risk Management framework (Wiley Finance Series). The book's risk, governance and standards architecture is operationalised through EW-AiRM™ and its HAiPECR™ ethical overlay, listed in the OECD.AI Policy Observatory catalogue for trustworthy AI.