AI Governance Executive & Scholar; Head of Global AI Policy at Salesforce & Slack; Author of "Muslims in a Post-9/11 America"
Rachel M. Gillum Biography
Dr. Rachel M. Gillum is an AI governance executive and scholar whose career spans the U.S. government, multinational corporations, and academia. Her work centers on the governance, deployment, and trust of advanced technologies in high-stakes environments. Gillum established and leads Salesforce and Slack's global AI policy, platform safety, and human rights governance function, overseeing content safety, trust and safety operations, and the responsible deployment of AI products and agents. Her team develops practical policies, safeguards, and decision frameworks that address emerging risks, regulatory expectations, and public trust concerns for one of the world's largest enterprise software companies.
Before joining Salesforce, Gillum served as senior director at Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, a strategic advisory firm founded by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, former Secretary of Defense and CIA Director Robert Gates, and Anja Manuel. She led the firm's portfolio of technology and venture capital companies as senior director of the Silicon Valley office. Earlier in her career, Gillum worked as an intelligence analyst within the U.S. government and led major research projects in international relations at Stanford University. She was also a researcher at the RAND Corporation International Policy Center and a research assistant at the Department of Defense Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies.
Gillum manages Salesforce's Ethical Use Advisory Council, which includes international experts from the United Nations, Freedom House, academic institutions, and other organizations. She was appointed as a commissioner on the bipartisan AI Commission on Competition, Inclusion, and Innovation by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, collaborating with leaders from government, industry, and civil society to develop AI policy solutions for the United States. Gillum is a mentor and startup advisor for the Techstars Accelerator program in the San Francisco Bay Area and advises organizations on responsible AI.
Gillum is an affiliated scholar at Stanford University and the author of several academic works, including the book "Muslims in a Post-9/11 America: A Survey of Attitudes and Beliefs and Their Implications for U.S. National Security Policy," which examines how government counterterrorism and surveillance policies can impact national security. Her work appears in Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, and various scholarly publications. She is a nonresident fellow of the Atlantic Council Digital Forensic Research Lab and a term member with the Council on Foreign Relations. Gillum is also the co-founder and former co-director of the Truman National Security Project diversity initiative, which supports underrepresented minorities in the international security profession. Her experience spans intelligence, academic research, and corporate leadership at the intersection of AI governance, national security, and responsible innovation.
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