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2025 AI Policy Fellows — Institute for AI Policy and Strategy
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IAPS (Institute for AI Policy and Strategy) is an organization focused on AI governance research; this page describes their 2025 fellowship program for aspiring AI policy professionals, relevant for those seeking careers or training in AI safety policy.
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The Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS) runs a fellowship program for individuals seeking to develop expertise in AI policy. The program aims to build capacity among policymakers and policy researchers focused on the governance and safety implications of advanced AI systems.
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- •Fellowship program hosted by IAPS targeting professionals interested in AI governance and policy work
- •Designed to develop expertise in translating AI safety concerns into actionable policy recommendations
- •Part of IAPS's broader mission to strengthen the AI policy research and advocacy ecosystem
- •Likely includes mentorship, training, and networking opportunities with AI policy experts
- •Contributes to building institutional capacity for responsible AI governance
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2025 AI Policy Fellows
Raghav Akula
2025 FELLOW
Raghav Akula is a student at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service majoring in Science, Technology, and International Affairs. He has contributed to projects for ODNI, MITRE on economic statecraft and critical minerals, an AI startup focused on geoeconomic strategy and prediction, a national security accelerator analyzing Chinese military AI, and a global governance think tank.
At IAPS, he worked on one project examining high-bandwidth memory production and export controls, and a second project differentiating the objectives of various types of "AI races."
Rafael Andersson Lipcsey
2025 FELLOW
Rafael is a political scientist and economist with a career spanning central banking, diplomacy, research, and policy work. His work has focused on the governance challenges posed by AI diffusion, including contributing to the drafting of EU codes of practice for frontier AI models.
Over the course of the Fellowship at IAPS, Rafael researched the advantages, limitations and risks of a pan-European distributed AI strategy, as well as contributed to developing testing and evaluation measures for military AI systems.
Bruna Avellar
2025 FELLOW
Bruna is an international lawyer with an LL.M. in Public International Law from Leiden University. As an IAPS Fellow, she worked with RAND on a project mapping verification mechanisms for U.S. export controls on advanced AI chips. Previously, as an AI Governance Fellow at Pivotal Research, she conducted research on semiconductor export-control evasion pathways and Brazil’s emerging role in global AI governance.
Before moving into AI governance, Bruna worked on sovereign litigation at an international law firm and held roles at the United Nations in New York and Geneva.
Dave Banerjee
2025 FELLOW
Dave Banerjee is a research associate at IAPS and a research manager at ERA. His research interests include securing frontier AI systems and preventing AI-driven power centralization. During the Fellowship, he wrote a report on AI integrity--ensuring that AI systems are not tampered with, backdoored, or have secret loyalties.
Josh Brause
2025 FELLOW
Josh Brause is a U.S. Government Deployment Strategist at Palantir Technologies. His previous experience includes serving as a Visiting Fellow at Taiwan’s Institute for National Defense and Security Research and co-founding PLATracke
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