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Career profile
Laura Waters
Head of Policy Legal at OpenAI
Seattle, Washington, United States
Career path.
OpenAISenior Counsel, Policy and Regulation
Dec 2025 - Present- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Senior Corporate Counsel, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Apr 2023 - Dec 2025 - Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Corporate Counsel, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Sep 2020 - Apr 2023 - House Committee on Oversight and Reform
Counsel, Democratic Staff
Nov 2018 - Sep 2020 - O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Associate
Dec 2016 - Oct 2018 - U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Judicial Law Clerk
May 2016 - Oct 2016 - O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Associate
Oct 2013 - May 2016 - O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Summer Associate
May 2012 - Jul 2012