Amanda leads Microsoft’s Responsible AI Public Policy team, which seeks to advance effective and interoperable public policy that helps Microsoft, our customers, and the world secure the benefits and establish guardrails to address the risks of AI. Before joining the Office of Responsible AI, Amanda led Microsoft’s Global Cybersecurity Policy team within its Customer Security and Trust division. Prior to joining Microsoft, Amanda focused on technology law and policy issues at Indiana University’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Cyber Affairs, and Google and as a fellow of the Eric T. Werner Global Cybersecurity Policy Advancement program. Amanda has a BS in Journalism and International Studies from Northwestern University, an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford, and a JD from Indiana University.