Lee Tiedrich is a notable faculty fellow in ethical technology at Duke University and an AI expert at the OECD and the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI). She has a long career of aiding establishments direct the complex and rapidly changing legal environment of AI, data, and developing technologies.
Tiedrich has a degree in electrical engineering and over 30 years of legal experience. She was a partner at the global law firm Covington & Burling LLP, where she led the firm’s global and multidisciplinary AI initiative. She also advised clients on a broad range of AI-related matters, including governance, policy, intellectual property, regulatory, transactions, and corporate matters.
She is a member of both the OECD and GPAI AI expert groups and co-chairs both the GPAI Responsible AI Strategy for the Environment (RAISE) committee and the GPAI Intellectual Property Advisory Committee. She works on developing approaches for AI that evaluate and manage risk while aligning law, policy, and practices with science.
She is also a co-author of the forthcoming casebook, The Law of Artificial Intelligence (West Academic 2024) and has several other publications. She speaks regularly to government leaders and at leading institutions, such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Federal Judicial Center, the National Judicial College, the OECD, COP-27, GPAI, WIPO, and leading universities.
She served on the Biden Campaign Policy Committee and is registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and earned a B.S.E. in electrical engineering from Duke University, with both Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi honors.
Tiedrich is one of the remarkable women who have contributed to the AI revolution and who are profiled as part of TechCrunch’s series on women in AI.
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