Sarah Mortell

Sarah Mortell

Research Affiliate

Sarah Mortell is an Affiliate of the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative. Her research focuses on public and private sector AI governance.

At AIGI, she works on building AIGI’s social science network for AI governance research. She is also a co-author on “Research Directions in AI Societal Risks and the Financial System,” an Oxford Martin School white paper on AI in financial services. She was a FIG AI Fellow, a Harvard AISST AI Policy Fellow, and a GovAI Applied Track Summer Fellow, upskilling UK parliamentarians on frontier AI governance,

Prior to her fellowship, Sarah was Chief of Staff to Sir Tim Berners-Lee and led policy and product partnerships at Web Summit’s Forum conference. She has also worked on UK government recovery efforts following the Grenfell Tower fire, and with the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Trustworthy Technology.

Sarah holds an MPA in AI and Emerging Technology Policy from Harvard Kennedy School, an MSc from Tsinghua University, where she was a Schwarzman Scholar, and a degree in Economics and Political Science from Trinity College Dublin.