Rachel Ann George

Bio

Rachel George is a Lecturer in the International Relations Program at Stanford University, where she is an Affiliate of CISAC and a Legal Innovation & Policy Fellow at Stanford Law School. A political scientist, her research examines how institutions adapt to technological and political change, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence, law and institutional reform, democracy, and governance.

Previously, she was a Lecturing Fellow at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Duke Kunshan University. She also served as a Director at the Council on Foreign Relations and has held fellowships at Georgetown University and ODI, where her research focused on law, democracy and security.

She is the author of *Bureaucratic Smokescreens*, a book examining the politics of institutional reform and the relationship between evidence and policymaking in foreign policy and development institutions. Her current research explores AI and democracy, security, and technology governance. Her second book, "Automating Aid" is exploring the role of AI in the fuure of international development. Rachel is also a Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

At Stanford, she leads the Policy Lab and the Research Capstone Paper course within the Program in International Relations, and teaches Navigating New Frontiers in International Law. She is also Nonresident Scholar with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Dr. George holds a BA from Princeton University, an MA from Harvard University, and a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.