Alice Friend

Alice Friend is Global Head of AI & Emerging Technology Policy at Google, where she leads a team covering governance and regulatory issues in global markets. A foreign and technology policy expert, she has a PhD in International Relations, and was previously the vice president for research and analysis at the Institute for Security and Technology. She served in several positions in the U.S. Department of Defense across two presidential administrations, and is the author of Mightier Than the Sword: Civilian Control of the Military and the Revitalization of Democracy published by Stanford University Press. She was a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington DC, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and American University. Alice has published articles in the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, War on the Rocks, Lawfare, and Just Security.