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Team

Ben Garfinkel

Executive Director

Georg Arndt

Chief of Staff

Markus Anderljung

Director of Policy and Research

Valerie Belu

Director of Talent

Abraham Rowe

Director of Operations

Robert Trager

International Governance Lead

Noemi Dreksler

Senior Research Fellow

Jonas Freund

Senior Research Fellow

Sam Manning

Senior Research Fellow

John Halstead

Senior Research Fellow

Alan Chan

Research Fellow

Sophie Williams

Research Fellow

Matthew van der Merwe

Research Fellow

Rebecca Hersman

Senior Research Scholar

Alex Leonidou

Visiting Fellow

James Coates

Research Scholar

John Lidiard

Research Scholar

Liam Patell

Research Scholar

Kamile Lukosiute

Research Scholar

Bhuvana Sudarshan

Research Scholar

Zaheed Kara

Research Scholar

Jake Steckler

Research Scholar

Pablo Villalobos

Research Scholar

Karthik Tadepalli

Research Scholar

Zachary Bernstein

Research Scholar

Michela Barbieri

Research Scholar

Edward Foley

Research Scholar

Kevin Wei

Research Scholar

Hanna Palya

Research Scholar

Cheryl Wu

Research Scholar

Martin Fukui

DC Fellowship Manager

Verena Heusser

Research Manager

Michael Bennett

Research Manager

Nicole Wong

Research Manager Associate

Miro Plueckebaum

Program Specialist

Elias Groll

Senior Research Editor

Emily Moore

General Counsel

Paul Harding

Operations Manager

Aquila Hassan

Research Manager

Will Taylor

Research Manager

Anastacia Button-Gentry

People Operations Manager

Isha Paik

Operations Specialist

Daniela Waldhorn

Talent Systems Manager

John Drummond

Talent Systems Specialist

Madeleine Ruwitch

Hiring Specialist

Natasha Martemianova

Hiring Specialist

Leia Wang

Project Management Associate

Nick Hollman

Operations Associate

Lorienne Doyle-Maw

Operations Associate

Robyn Seabrook

Executive Assistant to the Director

Romina Wojcik

Executive Operations Associate

Victoria Lloyd

Executive Support Specialist

Anamaria Puscas

Executive Assistant

Nathan T.

Office Manager

Affiliates

Allan Dafoe

Affiliate

Allan is the founder and former Director of GovAI and now serves as Senior Director of Frontier Strategy & Governance at Google DeepMind

Eric Drexler

Affiliate

Eric is a Senior Research Fellow at RAND Europe

Baobao Zhang

Affiliate

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

Joslyn Barnhart

Affiliate

Joslyn Barnhart is a Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

Jade Leung

Affiliate

Jade is CTO at the UK AISI, and AI Adviser to the Prime Minister. She previously worked for OpenAI and helped to co-found and lead GovAI

William Isaac

Affiliate

William is Principal Scientist & Head of Ethics Research at Google DeepMind

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 the cofounder and CEO of Mantic, an AI forecasting company

Brian Tse

Affiliate

Brian is the Founder & CEO, Concordia AI

Andrew Trask

Affiliate

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

Michael Aird

Affiliate

Michael is the AI Program Director at Longview Philanthropy

Jess Whittlestone

Affiliate

Jess is a Senior Adviser on AI Policy at the Centre for Long-Term Resilience

Tantum Collins

Affiliate

Tantum is CEO of Inherent

Cullen O’Keefe

Affiliate

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

Hiski Haukkala

Affiliate

Hiski is Director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Ulrike Franke

Affiliate

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

Lewis Hammond

Affiliate

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

Malcolm Murray

Affiliate

Malcolm is the Head of Research at SaferAI

Elizabeth Seger

AFFILIATE

Elizabeth is a Senior Policy Advisor at the Tony Blair Institute. She was previously a Research Scholar at GovAI

Stephen Clare

AFFILIATE

Stephen is the Lead Writer for the next edition of the International AI Safety Report

Andrew Sutton

AFFILIATE

Andrew is a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative. He is developing AIGI’s work on AI governance and the financial system

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

Hamish Hobbs

Affiliate

Hamish is Director of AI Policy at the Centre for Long-Term Resilience

Vasilios Mavroudis

Affiliate

Vasilios is a Principal Research Scientist at the Alan Turing Institute, where he leads research on AI cyber risks.

Richard Danzig

Affiliate

Amelia Michael

Adjunct Fellow

Amelia is a Research Fellow at the Center for Technology and Statecraft, where she researchers frontier robotics policy

Board of Directors

Jeffrey Ding

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

Tasha McCauley

Tasha McCauley is a technology entrepreneur, former CEO of GeoSim Systems, and co-founder of 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 the Interim Executive Director at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology

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