Tiffany Saade

Tiffany Saade is a coterminal master's candidate in the Stanford Ford Dorsey Masters in International Policy specializing in Cyber Policy and Security. She is also completing the final year of her undergraduate degree at Stanford in political science and international relations, focusing on geopolitical risk, with a regional expertise in East Asia and the Middle East. In her masters, Tiffany focuses on digital transformation, AI policy and data privacy.

Previously, Tiffany has worked for Ambassador David Hale as a political intern, at the US Institute for Peace, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, focusing on conflict resolution, security and state-building in the Middle East. Most recently, Tiffany focused on geotechnology, AI regulation and transatlantic cooperation on cybersecurity during her time at the European Council on Foreign Relations in the London, Berlin and Madrid offices.

She has been a World Economic Forum Global Shaper for the Palo Alto Hub since March 2022, and Vice Curator since July 2023, steering social impact and innovation toward four issues she is most passionate about: Artificial Intelligence and its applications in education, policymaking, and economic empowerment. Currently, Tiffany is a research assistant at Stanford HAI for Jennifer King, working at the intersection of data privacy, manipulative design, genetic privacy, IoT, and digital surveillance. She recently joined the Trusted Election Analysis and Monitoring (TEAM) working group at the Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs led by Senior Fellow Honorable Ellen McCarthy, researching the problem of malign election information, its threats to political processes, and the role of AI-powered near real-time data dashboard and chat interface in providing the public with accurate information to preserve electoral integrity and institutional fairness.  She is also completing her individual research project on digital surveillance and nation-branding in East Asia and MENA, advised and supervised by Andrew Grotto.

Tiffany’s interests range from geopolitical risk and peacebuilding, to the intersection of AI and defense, to the ways in which policymaking could enhance data privacy especially in an era riddled by disinformation, cyberattacks and zero-sum power struggles.  In her first year at MIP, Tiffany hopes to continue her research on digital surveillance and disinformation, delve deeper into the combination of AI governance and regulation, and learn more about how open source large language models can pose a national security risk in the context of rising tensions in the South China Sea and of autonomous systems in warfare. She is from Beirut Lebanon and speaks French, English, and Arabic, and is currently learning Mandarin.