Gillian Hadfield

Gillian Kereldena Hadfield (born July 14, 1961) is a Canadian economist, legal scholar and artificial intelligence researcher who is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of AI Alignment and Governance. She is also Professor of Law and of Strategic Management at Toronto, Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute, and an AI2050 Senior Fellow. From 2018 to 2023, Hadfield served as Senior Policy Adviser to the artificial intelligence company OpenAI.

She was previously the director and eponymous chair of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and the Richard L. and Antoinette Schamoi Kirtland Professor of Law and Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. At USC, Hadfield directed the Southern California Innovation Project and the USC Center in Law, Economics, and Organization. She is a former member of the board of directors for the American Law and Economics Association and the International Society for New Institutional Economics.