IVANA BARTOLETTI
THE AI INTERVIEW
Ivana Bartoletti occupies a rare position in the technology space. She sits, as she puts it,“ at the intersection of business, AI, law and society” – and has spent her career arguing that those four things belong together. As Vice President and Global Chief Privacy & AI Governance Officer at Wipro, the multinational technology services and consulting giant, Ivana is responsible for ensuring AI is built and deployed with accountability embedded from the outset.
Her remit covers both Wipro’ s internal operations and its work for clients. It is a role that demands equal fluency in engineering, ethics, law and policy.
Wipro has moved decisively in recent years from treating AI as a collection of discrete projects to embedding it across the full enterprise transformation lifecycle – the end-to-end process of redesigning how a business operates. The company’ s Wipro Intelligence suite brings together AI-powered platforms, solutions and delivery capabilities under a single architecture.
What distinguishes Wipro’ s approach is its consulting-led model.
Ivana explains:“ The question we answer for clients is not simply how to use AI, but how to govern it, how to make it trustworthy and how to ensure it delivers measurable value rather than staying in pilot purgatory. That is exactly the space where my work sits.”
Alongside her corporate work, Ivana advises the Council of Europe on AI and gender rights and founded Women Leading in AI, a network promoting
IVANA BARTOLETTI
TITLE: VICE PRESIDENT AND GLOBAL CHIEF PRIVACY & AI GOVERNANCE OFFICER
COMPANY: WIPRO
INDUSTRY: TECHNOLOGY & CONSULTING
As VP and Global Chief Privacy and AI Governance Officer at Wipro, Ivana ensures Wipro builds and deploys AI with privacy, legal rigour and accountability built in from the start.
female leadership in the field. For her, the boardroom and the public square are inseparable.
“ Those two tracks inform each other greatly,” she says.“ You cannot do serious governance work without understanding the policy environment, and you cannot do serious policy work without understanding how organisations actually function.”
From human rights to high tech Ivana’ s path into technology was not a conventional one. Her background is in law and political science, and it was an interest in power – who holds it, how it is exercised and whose interests it serves – that led her to the field.
“ Data and AI turned out to be the most consequential expressions of those questions in our time,” she reflects.
20 May 2026