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Dr. Charlotte Stix is Head of Governance and a member of the leadership team at Apollo Research, a mission-driven startup focused on detecting, mitigating, and governing scheming in frontier AI models.
At Apollo, Charlotte led the "Loss of Control" chapter of the 2026 International AI Safety Report, published work on risk management for the internal deployment of highly capable AI systems, and developed a novel taxonomy for classifying and governing loss-of-control threats.
Previously, Charlotte built OpenAI's European policy function and coordinated 52 world-leading AI experts on the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI HLEG), developing early policy artifacts that informed the EU AI Act. Her earlier career spans research and policy across academia, industry, and international institutions: she was a Researcher at the University of Cambridge; managed over €18 million in robotics and AI programmes as a Programme Officer at the European Commission, where she helped launch Europe's leading research and innovation platform for AI; and served as EU Policy Advisor to the CEO of Element AI during the company's $102 million Series A.
Charlotte regularly advises frontier technology companies, governments, and international organizations on AI assurance, technical AI governance, and risk assessment and mitigations. She is a Fellow at the University of Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, and has been recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30, a World Economic Forum Young Global Shaper, and a St. Gallen Symposium Leader of Tomorrow.
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