Susan Liautaud

Susan Liautaud, BA ’86 (Music; Humanities Special Program), MA '86,is founder and managing director of Susan Liautaud & Associates Limited), a firm advising on complex ethics matters for leaders in the corporate, nonprofit and governmental sectors internationally. She serves as Chair of Council (trustees) of the London School of Economics and Political Science, as Vice Chair of the Global Partnership for Education and as Chair of the Stanford University Freeman Spogli Institute for International Affairs Advisory Council. She teaches cutting-edge ethics courses at Stanford University. Susan is the author of The Power of Ethics and of The Little Book of Big Ethical Questions. She also founded a nonprofit platform for innovative ethics called The Ethics Incubator. Susan serves on the Stanford HAI and SAP’s AI Ethics Advisory Panel. She also serves on a number of other boards and advisory boards, including: Benevolent AI; Yale Divinity School Advisory Council; the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; the French Ambassador’s Foreign Trade Advisory Council in the United Kingdom; the American Hospital of Paris Board of Governors and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières United States Advisory Board (former Chair). She previously served on the United Kingdom Cabinet Office’s Advisory Committee on Business Appointments , the Pasteur Institute board, and on the United Kingdom Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation board. Susan is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations.

Susan holds a PhD in social policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science; a JD from Columbia University Law School; an MA in Chinese studies from the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies; and an MA and two BAs from Stanford University.