| Adam BeaumontPeople | Interim Director of the AI Security Institute per GOV.UK (AISI's blog called him Director in December 2025); previously GCHQ's Chief AI Officer. active (per GOV.UK) | | gov.uk/government/people/adam-beaumont · aisi.gov.uk/blog | verified |
| Agustín Martínez SuñéPeople | Science and Technology Lead on ARIA's Safeguarded AI programme. | | aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/trust-everything- | one source |
| Alice GenevoisPeople | Responsible AI Lead at Lloyds Banking Group; member of the GDS Responsible AI Advisory Panel. | | gov.uk/government/groups/gds-responsible-ai-advi | one source |
| Andrea JonesPeople | Managing Director of VisVira and Regional Lead for AI Wales; member of the GDS Responsible AI Advisory Panel. | | gov.uk/government/groups/gds-responsible-ai-advi | one source |
| Ant (Antony) RowstronPeople | Chief Technology Officer of ARIA, the UK research agency funding Safeguarded AI and Scaling Compute. | | gov.uk/government/news/ai-to-power-national-rene · gov.uk/government/publications/ai-for-science-st | verified |
| Charlotte DeanePeople | Executive Chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), which funds UK AI research and doctoral training. | | gov.uk/government/news/ai-to-power-national-rene · gov.uk/government/publications/ai-for-science-st | verified |
| Chris DungeyPeople | UK government AI Champion for Advanced Manufacturing; author of the sector's AI adoption plan (June 2026). | | gov.uk/government/publications/ai-champions-ai-a | one source |
| Chris SummerfieldPeople | Research Director at the AI Security Institute; also leads the Human Information Processing Lab at the University of Oxford. | | aisi.gov.uk/about · aisi.gov.uk/blog/fourth-progress-report | verified |
| David 'davidad' DalrymplePeople | Joined ARIA's first Programme Director cohort in 2023 from an Oxford AI-safety fellowship; now Technical Advisor to Safeguarded AI; unpaid adviser to Timaeus (2024 register). | | aria.org.uk/insights/introducing-our-programme-d · aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/trust-everything- | verified |
| Douglas GurrPeople | Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national institute for data science and AI. | | turing.ac.uk/people/board-trustees/douglas-gurr | one source |
| Geoffrey IrvingPeople | Chief Scientist of the AI Security Institute (Research Director in May 2024); earlier led alignment teams at OpenAI and DeepMind. active (as of October 2024) | | aisi.gov.uk/blog/why-i-joined-aisi---geoffrey-ir · aisi.gov.uk/blog/fourth-progress-report | verified |
| Gopal RamchurnPeople | Chief executive of Responsible AI UK and a professor at the University of Southampton. | | gov.uk/government/news/ai-to-power-national-rene · gov.uk/government/groups/gds-responsible-ai-advi | verified |
| Henry de ZoetePeople | Director of the AI Security Institute, per AISI's own site; formerly the Prime Minister's AI Adviser. GOV.UK names Adam Beaumont interim director. active (per aisi.gov.uk) | | aisi.gov.uk/about | one source |
| Ian HogarthPeople | Chair of the AI Security Institute (named so by DSIT in February 2025 and on AISI's site in October 2026). | | aisi.gov.uk/about · gov.uk/government/news/tackling-ai-security-risk | verified |
| Ilan GurPeople | Chief Executive Officer of ARIA in its July 2024 register of interests; ARIA's site now names Kathleen Fisher as CEO. role as of July 2024 | | aria.org.uk/media/131lvlwf/aria-register-of-inte | one source |
| Jade LeungPeople | AISI CTO and, from August 2025, the Prime Minister's AI adviser; from end of September 2026 Vice-Chair of AISI and Security Advisor to the AI Taskforce. role changed | | gov.uk/government/news/dr-jade-leung-appointed-v · gov.uk/government/news/appointment-of-jade-leung | verified |
| James WisePeople | Venture capitalist named in November 2025 to chair the UK government's Sovereign AI Unit. | | gov.uk/government/news/ai-to-power-national-rene | one source |
| Jeni TennisonPeople | Chair of the Government Digital Service's Responsible AI Advisory Panel; Executive Director of Connected by Data. | | gov.uk/government/groups/gds-responsible-ai-advi | one source |
| Joséphine KantPeople | Head of Ventures at the government's Sovereign AI unit, which invested in London AI chip start-up OLIX in 2026. | | gov.uk/government/news/sovereign-ai-invests-in-u | one source |
| Kanishka NarayanPeople | Minister of State (Minister for Artificial Intelligence) since 20 July 2026; DSIT junior minister from September 2025. | | gov.uk/government/news/sovereign-ai-invests-in-u · gov.uk/government/people/kanishka-narayan | verified |
| Kathleen FisherPeople | Chief executive of ARIA, the UK research agency that funds the Safeguarded AI (£59m) and Scaling Compute programmes. | | aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/trust-everything- | one source |
| Katie GallagherPeople | UK government AI Champion for Digital and Technologies; author of the sector's AI adoption plan (June 2026). | | gov.uk/government/publications/ai-champions-ai-a | one source |
| Laura GilbertPeople | Senior Director of AI at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change; member of the GDS Responsible AI Advisory Panel. | | gov.uk/government/groups/gds-responsible-ai-advi | one source |
| Lord Vallance (Patrick Vallance)People | Chair of the Prime Minister's new AI Taskforce from July 2026; former Government Chief Scientific Adviser and science minister. | | gov.uk/government/news/ai-to-power-change-at-the | one source |
| Lucy YuPeople | UK government AI Champion for Clean Energy; author of an interim AI adoption plan (June 2026). | | gov.uk/government/publications/ai-champions-ai-a | one source |
| Mark GirolamiPeople | Chief Scientist of the Alan Turing Institute; acting chief executive from January 2026 while a permanent CEO was recruited. | | turing.ac.uk/news/acting-ceo-announced-alan-turi | one source |
| Nate BurnikellPeople | Chief Strategy Officer of the AI Security Institute, formerly a deputy director there. | | aisi.gov.uk/about | one source |
| Nitarshan RajkumarPeople | AI policy adviser to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, as named in AISI's May 2024 progress report. role as of May 2024 | | aisi.gov.uk/blog/fourth-progress-report | one source |
| Nora AmmannPeople | Programme Director of ARIA's £59m Safeguarded AI programme, which funds teams building verified AI agents for critical systems. | | aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/trust-everything- | one source |
| Oliver (Ollie) IlottPeople | Director General for AI in the Cabinet Office and head of the Prime Minister's AI Taskforce since July 2026; a founding Director of AISI. | | gov.uk/government/people/ollie-ilott · aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-first-year | verified |
| Phil SmithPeople | Chair of Skills England and co-chair of the Digital Skills Council, quoted at the January 2026 expansion of AI Skills Boost. | | gov.uk/government/news/free-ai-training-for-all- | one source |
| Sally DaviesPeople | UK government AI Champion for the Creative Industries; author of the sector's AI adoption plan (June 2026). | | gov.uk/government/publications/ai-champions-ai-a | one source |
| Shaheen SayedPeople | UK government AI Champion for Professional and Business Services; author of the sector's AI adoption plan (June 2026). | | gov.uk/government/publications/ai-champions-ai-a | one source |
| Simon JohnsonPeople | Former IMF Chief Economist; named a UK AI Ambassador in November 2025 to work with public services and businesses. | | gov.uk/government/news/ai-to-power-national-rene | one source |
| Suraj BramhavarPeople | Programme Director of ARIA's Scaling Compute programme on AI hardware since 2023; earlier co-founder and CTO of Sync Computing. leaving ARIA (per programme page) | | aria.org.uk/insights/introducing-our-programme-d · aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/nature-inspired-c | verified |
| Yarin GalPeople | Named a Research Director of the AI Safety Institute (now AI Security Institute) in its May 2024 progress report. role as of May 2024 | | aisi.gov.uk/blog/fourth-progress-report | one source |