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Lee J. Tiedrich

BIO

Lee Tiedrich is a widely recognized leader in artificial intelligence, data, and emerging technologies. In addition to her position at the University of Maryland, she’s also a Senior AI Advisor at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology and a Senior Adviser to the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI, led by Yoshua Bengio.

She has served as a consultant to the OECD/GPAI and is a co-author of the GPAI/OECD’s 2025 policy paper titled “Intellectual Property Issues in Artificial Intelligence Trained on Scraped Data Data”, which was approved by more than 40 countries. She’s also a member of OECD/GPAI expert groups and co-chairs both the GPAI Responsible AI Strategy for the Environment (RAISE) Committee and the GPAI Intellectual Property Committee.

With degrees in electrical engineering and law, Ms. Tiedrich speaks frequently to government leaders and at leading institutions, such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Federal Judicial Center, the National Judicial College, the OECD, COP-27, GPAI, the World Bank, and the UN AI High Level Advisory Board. She has held leadership positions with the American Bar Association and has served as a peer reviewer for Oxford University Press. She has been selected for Marquis’ Who’s Who and received a Duke Women Innovators Award in 2023.

Ms. Tiedrich has over 30 years of private sector experience and was a partner at the global law firm Covington & Burling LLP, where she led the firm’s global and multi-disciplinary AI initiative. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and earned a B.S.E. in electrical engineering from Duke University, with both Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi honors. Ms. Tiedrich has held several faculty appointments at Duke University.