Dr. Rachel Gillum is a technology policy executive, national security scholar, and published author whose work sits at the intersection of AI governance, geopolitical risk, and global regulatory strategy.

She built and leads Salesforce's responsible AI and platform safety policy function, setting the standards by which one of the world's largest enterprise software companies deploys AI to millions of users. Her team operates globally, covering AI governance, content policy, trust and safety, and the deployment of AI agents across Salesforce and Slack.

Before Salesforce, Rachel served as Senior Director at RiceHadleyGatesManuel LLC alongside former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, advising Fortune 50 executives and governments on geopolitical risk and market strategy. Earlier in her career she served as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. government.

Rachel is a chair on the American Political Science Association's Task Force on AI and is an affiliated scholar at Stanford University. She is the author of several peer-reviewed, academic works, including forthcoming research on AI with Cambridge University Press. Her work has been covered in Forbes, The Washington Post, and Essence.

She serves as a Commissioner on the Atlantic Council GeoTech Commission on AI and on the Board of Directors of the Stanford Alumni Association.