Renan Araujo

2025 Fellow

Renan is a Research Manager at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS), where he leads the research workstream on international AI governance and the IAPS AI Policy Fellowship. His work focuses on the implications of advanced AI on international relations, with a focus on US-China, and what institutional models might be conducive to international cooperation on AI, such as AI Safety Institutes. Previously, Renan was a researcher on AI governance and emergent technologies at Rethink Priorities and the Institute for Law and AI. He has experience leading global capacity-building programs, especially in LMIC, and conducting comparative policy research. He is also a co-founder and adviser of the Condor Initiative, an educational nonprofit that supports Brazilian students in shaping AI research and policy globally. He also advises the Vista Institute for AI Policy.  In a previous life, he was the youngest chief of staff of a Justice of Appeal at the State Court of Pernambuco, Brazil, where he worked for five years. He’s a lawyer by training with an MSc from the London School of Economics.