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Team

Ben Garfinkel

Director

Georg Arndt

Chief of Staff

Markus Anderljung

Director of Policy and Research

Ryan Fugate

Director of Operations

Valerie Belu

Head of Talent Development

Stephen Clare

Research Manager

Robert Trager

International Governance Lead

Noemi Dreksler

Senior Research Fellow

Jonas Schuett

Senior Research Fellow

Sam Manning

Senior Research Fellow

Luca Righetti

Senior Research Fellow

Alan Chan

Research Fellow

John Halstead

Research Fellow

Claire Dennis

Research Scholar

Oliver Ritchie

Research Scholar

Marie Buhl

Research Scholar

Sophie Williams

Research Scholar

Matthew van der Merwe

Research Scholar

Vinay Hiremath

Research Scholar

Aidan Homewood

Research Scholar

James Coates

Research Scholar

Hamish Hobbs

Policy Advisor

Paul Harding

Operations Manager

Aquila Hassan

Project Management Specialist

John Drummond

Talent Systems Specialist

William Ehlers

Operations Associate

Arianna Bosio

Operations Associate

Leia Wang

Operations Associate

Anastacia Button-Gentry

Operations Associate

Rakhsana Ramzan

Executive Assistant to the Director of Policy & Research

Robyn Seabrook

Executive Assistant to the Director

Leyla Ava

Team Executive Assistant

Affiliates

Allan Dafoe

Affiliate

Allan is the founder and former Director of GovAI and now serves as Director of Frontier Safety and Governance at Google DeepMind.

Eric Drexler

Affiliate

Eric has served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute and Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford

Baobao Zhang

Affiliate

Baobao is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

Waqar Zaidi

Affiliate

Waqar is Associate Professor and Chair of the Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences

Joslyn Barnhart

Affiliate

Joslyn Barnhart is a Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind.

Jade Leung

Affiliate

Jade leads the Research Unit at the UK AI Safety Institute. She previously worked for OpenAI and helped to co-found and lead GovAI

William Isaac

Affiliate

William is a Staff Research Scientist on DeepMind's Ethics and Society Team

Atoosa Kasirzadeh

Affiliate

Atoosa is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Philosophy and Software & Societal Systems departments.

Toby Shevlane

Affiliate

Toby is a Research Scientist at DeepMind's Long-term Strategy & Governance team

Brian Tse

Affiliate

Brian is the Founder and CEO at Concordia Consulting

Andrew Trask

Affiliate

Andrew is the leader of OpenMined and a Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind

Michael Aird

Affiliate

Michael Aird is a Technology and Security Policy Fellowship Coordinator at RAND Corporation.

Jess Whittlestone

Affiliate

Jess is Head of AI Policy at the Centre for Long-Term Resilience

Tantum Collins

Affiliate

Tantum researches how machine learning can improve democratic governance. He previously worked at DeepMind and the White House.

Diane Cooke

Affiliate

Di Cooke is a Visiting Fellow in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

Cullen O’Keefe

Affiliate

Cullen is the Director of Research at the Institute for Law & AI.

Hiski Haukkala

Affiliate

Hiski is Secretary General and Chief of Cabinet at the Office of the President of the Republic of Finland

Ulrike Franke

Affiliate

Ulrike is a Senior Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations

Lewis Hammond

Affiliate

Lewis is a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford and Acting Executive Director at the Cooperative AI Foundation

Malcolm Murray

Affiliate

Malcolm is an independent AI risk management researcher and advisor.

Elizabeth Seger

AFFILIATE

Elizabeth is the Director of Digital Policy at Demos. She was previously a Research Scholar at GovAI.

Jide Alaga

AFFILIATE

Jide is a Member of Policy Staff at METR. He was formerly a Research Scholar at GovAI.

Lennart Heim

Adjunct Fellow

Lennart Heim is an associate information scientist at RAND and a Professor of Policy Analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School.

Board of Directors

Jeffrey Ding

Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University

Tasha McCauley

Tasha is Adjunct Senior Management Scientist at RAND Corporation and co-founded Fellow Robots.

Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh

Seán is Director of the AI: Futures and Responsibility Programme at the Centre for the Future of Intelligence (University of Cambridge).

Toby Ord

Toby Ord is a Senior Researcher at the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative.

Helen Toner

Helen is Director of Strategy at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology

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