Dr. Jade Leung is the Chief Technology Officer of the UK’s AI Security Institute and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s key AI adviser.

She leads the Institute’s technical work and team, with a particular focus on testing and evaluation for the next generations of frontier AI models. Jade works to position the UK as the leading nation to help unlock the benefits and prepare for the impacts of transformative AI and harness the technology as it delivers the strong foundations and economic growth central to the government’s Plan for Change.

The Auckland University graduate earned a MPhil in Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge and a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford, where she completed her PhD in AI governance.

Jade co-founded the Centre of the Governance of AI at the University of Oxford, and was a partner at Apollo Projects working on early-stage investing and special projects in deep tech.

Previously, she was the governance lead at Open AI in San Francisco, focusing on the secure development of artificial intelligence, and responsible for the company’s work on safety standards, international cooperation, and regulatory approaches for advanced AI systems.

She was co-founder of education social enterprise The Learning Collaborative; a former trustee of youth antipoverty movement P3-Foundation; former Learning and Change

Manager at Engineers Without Borders NZ; and was a founding trustee of the Aotearoa Youth Leadership Institute.

In 2024, she was included in Time Magazine’s list of the ‘100 Most Influential People in AI’.