Genevieve Bell is the Director of the 3A Institute, Florence Violet McKenzie Chair, and a Distinguished Professor at the ANU) as well as a Vice President and Senior Fellow at Intel Corporation. She is a cultural anthropologist, technologist and futurist best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice and technology development.

After completing her PhD in cultural anthropology at Stanford University in 1998, she spent 18 years in Silicon Valley helping guide Intel’s product development by developing the company’s social science and design research capabilities. She established 3Ai in 2017 at the ANU in collaboration with CSIRO's Data61 with the mission of building a new applied science to effectively and ethically manage the impact of AI on humanity through better design and management of technology.

She is also the inaugural appointee to the Florence Violet McKenzie Chair at the ANU, Non-Executive Director of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Board, a member of the Prime Minister’s National Science and Technology Council, a Fellow of the ATSE, an Officer of the Order of Australia, and in 2020 she was named the first Engelbart Distinguished Fellow by SRI International.

She also presented the highly acclaimed ABC Boyer Lectures for 2017, in which she investigated what it means to be human, and Australian, in a digital world.