Allan Dafoe
Career profile

Allan Dafoe

Senior Director, Frontier Strategy and Governance, Google DeepMind

United Kingdom

Career path.

  1. Google DeepMind

    Senior Director

    Nov 2025 - Present
  2. Google DeepMind

    Director

    Nov 2023 - Dec 2025
  3. Google DeepMind

    Senior Staff Research Scientist

    Jun 2021 - Nov 2023
  4. Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)

    President

    Jun 2021 - Jun 2023
  5. University of Oxford

    Associate Professor

    Jul 2018 - Jun 2021
  6. Centre for the Governance of AI

    Director

    Jul 2018 - Jun 2021
  7. Yale University

    Assistant Professor

    Aug 2012 - Jun 2018