Key People
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Laura Courchesne
Managing Director
Managing Director of the Frontier Model Forum. Background in AI safety and international relations; Rhodes Scholar, PhD from Oxford. Previously at Stanford CISAC and International Crisis Group. Confirmed via LinkedIn and CNAS profiles as of 2026-04-23.
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Chris Meserole
Executive Director
2023 – present
First Executive Director; appointed October 25, 2023. Previously Director of AI & Emerging Technology Initiative at Brookings Institution. Confirmed on FMF website as of 2026-04-02.
Funding History
1AI Safety Fund Initial Capitalizationdonation2023
$10MLed by Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI
FMF launched its AI Safety Fund in October 2023 with 'over $10M' committed. Corporate funders: Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI (amounts not broken down). Philanthropic co-funders: Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Schmidt Sciences, and Jaan Tallinn. Fund administered by Meridian Institute initially, then FMF directly. Two grant rounds disbursed by end of 2025.
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Organization
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Board Seats
6| Member | Role | Appointed | Departed | Source | Notes | Source check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FEgSIo1hjY | President of Global Affairs, Meta (Operating Board Member) | 2024-05 | 2025-01 | frontiermodelforum.org | Represented Meta on FMF Operating Board when Meta joined in May 2024. Left Meta in January 2025 (replaced by Joel Kaplan as Meta Chief Global Affairs Officer); FMF board seat succession not publicly confirmed. | Not checked |
| Usd99hGupc | SVP of Global Public Policy and General Counsel, Amazon (Operating Board Member) | 2024-05 | — | frontiermodelforum.org | Represents Amazon on FMF Operating Board since Amazon joined in May 2024. David Zapolsky is SVP Global Public Policy and General Counsel at Amazon. Confirmed via FMF announcement as of 2026-04-23. | Not checked |
| tWCnEtlgjS | VP of Global Affairs, OpenAI (Operating Board Member) | 2023 | — | blog.google | Founding member representative from OpenAI on the FMF Operating Board. Anna Makanju is VP of Global Affairs at OpenAI. | Not checked |
| 9GG5LVaxKE | Vice Chair & President, Microsoft (Operating Board Member) | 2023 | — | blogs.microsoft.com | Founding member representative from Microsoft on the FMF Operating Board. Brad Smith is Vice Chair & President of Microsoft. | Not checked |
| Dario Amodei | CEO, Anthropic (Operating Board Member) | 2023 | — | blogs.microsoft.com | Founding member representative from Anthropic on the FMF Operating Board. Frontier Model Forum was founded in July 2023 by Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI. | Not checked |
| Tuy4Vk07VH | President of Global Affairs, Google (Operating Board Member) | 2023 | — | blogs.microsoft.com | Founding member representative from Google & Alphabet on the FMF Operating Board. Kent Walker is President of Global Affairs at Google & Alphabet. | Not checked |
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