Dr. Laura Courchesne

Dr. Laura Courchesne is the Managing Director of the Frontier Model Forum, an industry-supported non-profit advancing frontier AI safety and security. She works with leading AI companies to address AI-enabled biological, nuclear, cyber, and security risks and oversees the organization’s information-sharing function, including threat intelligence. She previously co-founded and directed the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Data and Conflict, where she built AI tools to analyze influence operations and conflict-related social media data. She conducted field research in Ukraine on Russian disinformation and cyber operations and studied the Taliban's use of social media during the 2021 takeover of Afghanistan. She has served as a Strategic Advisor to Google’s Jigsaw, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation, an instructor for the United Nations System Staff College, a Research Fellow at Princeton’s Empirical Studies of Conflict Project, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the International Crisis Group. Laura received her PhD in International Relations from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where she studied how state militaries and non-state armed groups leverage technology in conflict. Her research has appeared in the New York Times, War on the Rocks, and Lawfare.