Sandro Gianella leads OpenAI’s Policy & Partnerships team across Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. He’s previously built the EMEA Public Policy function at Stripe, worked on technology regulation at Google and the G7/G20 process as a lead analyst for the G20 Research Group and the Heinrich Böll Foundation. He’s a member of the Atomico Expert Network providing counsel on regulatory matters to European scale-ups and an LP in the solo GP fund Common Magic. He was selected as a Young Leader for the Atlantik-Brücke e.V., took part in the Transatlantic Digital Fellowship of the Global Public Policy Institute and participated in the Internet Leadership Academy of the Oxford Internet Institute. He graduated from the University of Toronto with an Hon. Bachelor in International Relations and from the Hertie School of Governance with a Masters in Public Policy.