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Dr. Charlotte Stix is an AI governance specialist. She is a member of Apollo Research’s leadership team and leads AI Governance. Apollo Research is a mission-driven start-up focused on detecting, mitigating and governing scheming in frontier AI models.
Most recently, Charlotte led the "Loss of Control" chapter for the 2026 International State of Safety report, published 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. She is regularly requested to advise frontier technology companies, governments and international organisations on AI assessment, technical AI governance and regulation. She is a Fellow to the University of Cambridge, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.
Previously, Charlotte built and led the Public Policy function for Europe at OpenAI and cordinated 52 world-leading AI experts on the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI HLEG) developing early AI policy artefacts which later resulted in the AI Act.
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Earlier in her career, she was a Researcher at Cambridge University, managed over €18 million in robotics and AI programmes as a Programme Officer at the European Commission which included kick-starting the leading research and innovation platform for AI in Europe, advised the CEO of Element AI on global AI strategy as Policy Specialist during their 102m series A, and served as Expert to the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Neurotechnologies, Researcher to the World Economic Forum’s AI Council and Grants Adviser to the European AI Fund.
She's been selected as a Forbes' 30 under 30; Young Global Shaper, World Economic Forum; and, Leader of Tomorrow, St. Gallen Symposium.
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Charlotte's pursuit of enabling good governance for emerging technology began at the World Future Council where she advocated for rights for future generations in front of international governments and the United Nations.
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