Dr. Rachel Gillum is an AI governance, Trust & Safety, and national security policy executive whose work focuses on how advanced technologies are governed, deployed, and trusted in high-stakes settings.

She built and leads Salesforce and Slack’s global AI policy, platform safety, and human rights governance function, overseeing work across content safety, Trust & Safety operations, and the responsible deployment of AI products and agents. Her team translates emerging risks, regulatory expectations, and public trust concerns into practical policies, safeguards, and decision frameworks for one of the world’s largest enterprise software companies.

Before Salesforce, Rachel served as Senior Director at Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, the strategic advisory firm founded by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, former Secretary of Defense and CIA Director Robert Gates, and Anja Manuel. There, she advised senior executives, boards, investors, and global organizations on geopolitical risk, government engagement, market strategy, platform governance, and sensitive technology decisions. Earlier in her career, she served as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. government.

Rachel is Co-Chair of the American Political Science Association’s Presidential Task Force on AI, Politics and Political Science and an affiliated scholar at Stanford University. She is the author of peer-reviewed academic work on national security, political identity, public trust, and emerging technology, including forthcoming research on AI with Cambridge University Press. Her work has been featured in Forbes, The Washington Post, Reuters, Essence, and other outlets.

She also serves as a Commissioner on the Atlantic Council GeoTech Commission on AI, and has advised or served with organizations including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce AI Commission, the Institute for Security and Technology, CareMessage, and the Council on Foreign Relations.