Michael Tsan is a New York-based Global AI Lead and Partner at Dalberg, who founded Dalberg Advisors’s Digital, Data, and AI Practice 15 years ago, and coordinates Dalberg’s portfolios of work on advising hyperscalers on their AI x Impact partnerships, supporting the advancement of safe and responsible local AI ecosystems across LMICs, AI transformation strategies for leading impact organizations, and the development and scale-up of AI impact use cases across sectors such as food and agriculture, global health, education, accessibility/disability, financial inclusion, economic mobility, and climate change.

Michael’s work on digital and AI impact ecosystems has included the setup and launch of multi-stakeholder digital initiatives and partnerships (e.g. DIAL), major recent AI ecosystem building initiatives in Asia and Africa (e.g., Gates Foundation AI Scaling Hubs), AI strategy support for major philanthropies and DFIs (e.g., Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Tencent SSV, WB/IFC, ADB, USAID, IDRC, GIZ/BMZ, UAE), AI transformations for leading global iNGOs and research institutions (e.g., Accion, BRAC, Jhpiego, CGIAR), and close collaboration with leading private sector AI leaders (e.g. Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, Tencent) on their AI impact partnerships, labs, and multi-stakeholder initiatives and alliances (e.g., Michael oversees Dalberg’s partnerships with Google on AI x Food Security, AI x Accessibility, and AI x Scams/Fraud Collaboratives).

Prior to his work in Dalberg, Michael spent 7 years with McKinsey & Company in the US, Europe, and Asia where he advised across the private, public, and non-profit sectors, with a focus on financial services and telecommunications clients. Michael earned a J.D. from Yale Law School with a focus on International Law and Development Economics where he was an Olin Scholar in Law, Economics, and Public Policy. Earlier he received a mini-MBA from Tuck Business School at Dartmouth, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and History from Swarthmore College.