Samantha Weinstock is the Executive Director of the United States - Japan Innovation Institute, a US nonprofit, and a visiting researcher and executive team member at Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan. Through these roles, she leads a collaborative AI Safety project that bridges perspectives across researchers, industry leaders, and policymakers. As a BKC affiliate, she aims to strengthen US-Japan partnerships by connecting Japanese stakeholders with American networks, fostering greater cross-cultural dialogue in the AI safety space.
Sam previously managed operations and partnerships for xD.gov, a data science and emerging technologies team at the U.S. Census Bureau; she was the Executive Director of a research nonprofit, Center of Complex Interventions; and she ran a fiscal sponsor for academic nonprofits called YarnLabs. She also managed research at MIT and worked as a research associate at Harvard Law School and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Before entering the academic and non-profit space, Sam worked at Google. She has a master’s degree in Modern European History from the University of Cambridge and a B.A. in History from Grinnell College.
