Jade Leung is an engineer, governance executive, and researcher who attended the University of Auckland, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Oxford, and received a Rhodes scholarship in 2016. She is the artificial intelligence adviser to British Prime Minister Andy Burnham and the chief technology officer of the United Kingdom's AI Security Institute, where she designs and oversees evaluations for frontier AI models.[1] Until October 2023, she served as Governance Lead at OpenAI, focusing on the secure development of artificial intelligence, particularly on scaling and security protocols related to advancements in artificial general intelligence.[5,4] She also co-founded and was the inaugural Head of Research and Partnerships at the Centre for the Governance of AI at the University of Oxford.[6]
Career
Leung graduated from the University of Auckland in New Zealand with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) with First Class Honours in civil engineering in 2015.[7] She won a Rhodes Scholarship in 2016 and undertook a master's degree in environmental policy at the University of Cambridge.[8,9] In 2019, she completed her DPhil in international relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, with a PhD thesis on "Who will govern artificial intelligence? Learning from the history of strategic politics in emerging technologies".[10,11]
In October 2023, she left OpenAI to join the United Kingdom's AI Security Institute as its chief technology officer, where she primarily leads work on evaluations, focusing on developing empirical tests for dangerous capabilities and security features of frontier AI systems.[2] She was included in Time's list of the "100 Most Influential People in AI" in 2024 and was appointed as Prime Minister Keir Starmer's AI adviser in 2025.[2,12]
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