Ella Guest leads artificial intelligence (AI) capability evaluations in the Technology and Security Policy Center at RAND. Her work focuses on developing technical and policy interventions to address large-scale risks posed by frontier AI systems. Guest was previously a technology advisor at the Competition and Markets Authority, the UK’s competition regulator; a research associate at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national institute for data science and AI; and a policy researcher at the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, an advisory body to the UK government on trustworthy use of data and AI. She has a Ph.D. in social statistics from the University of Manchester.
Ph.D. in social statistics, University of Manchester; M.Sc. in social research methods and statistics, University of Manchester; M.A. in social anthropology, University of Edinburgh
