Daniela Muhaj
McDonough School of Business
Daniela Muhaj is the Director of Research and Technology Initiatives at the Baratta Center for Global Business and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where she leads work on emerging technologies, global competitiveness, and the intersection of business strategy and policy.
Previously, she served as Global Economic Research Lead at Amazon Web Services, where she developed and scaled economic impact models for data center infrastructure, including tools to assess fiscal effects, investment impacts, and energy deployment. Her work supported major infrastructure decisions and public-private partnerships across multiple global markets. Professor Muhaj is a Research Affiliate at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), where she collaborates on research examining how firms’ technological capabilities shape AI adoption, productivity, labor market outcomes, governance, and long-term competitiveness.
She also serves as Head of Research and Development at AI2030 in an advisory capacity, leading initiatives on responsible AI governance in collaboration with global industry and policy partners to inform the development and deployment of responsible AI systems. Her previous roles include positions at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT, the Harvard University’s Growth Lab, the International Monetary Fund, and the Central Bank of Slovenia. Her work has been published in MIT Sloan Management Review and through Harvard University, the International Monetary Fund, and the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative.
She holds a master’s degree in international economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and completed graduate courses in mathematics and computer science at Harvard University.
