Renjie Butalid is a technology and policy executive working at the intersection of AI ethics, financial innovation, and public interest.

He is Co-Founder and Director of the Montreal AI Ethics Institute (MAIEI), an international non-profit dedicated to democratizing AI ethics literacy. Founded in 2018 with the late Abhishek Gupta, MAIEI produces The AI Ethics Brief, a bi-weekly newsletter reaching over 20,000 subscribers, and the State of AI Ethics Report (SAIER), an annual publication drawing on contributors from across Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. MAIEI was a founding member of the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC) at NIST, now reorganized as the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), and is also a member of the AI Alliance, LF AI and Data Foundation, and Partnership on AI.

Renjie has contributed to AI governance conversations at the Point Zero Forum in Zurich, the Victoria Forum co-hosted by the Senate of Canada, and through publications in Tech Policy Press and the National Post.

As Vice President of Business Development at Metrika, a SOC 2 Type II compliant digital asset risk management platform backed by Nyca, Microsoft, and Coinbase, he leads strategic partnerships with regulated financial institutions including G-SIBs, asset managers, and rating agencies.

Previously, Renjie led the expansion of McGill University's Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship, raising over $8 million and securing a Top 10 global ranking. In September 2025, he was selected as a scholarship recipient at the Wadham Experience at Wadham College, University of Oxford, a programme for senior leaders of change drawn from across sectors and world regions.

He was named a Top 40 Under 40 by the Waterloo Region Record and is a member of The Banff Forum and the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Waterloo and an MA in International Relations from Corvinus University of Budapest.