Tino Cuéllar Joins Anthropic as Chief Global Affairs Officer
Anthropic has named Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer, a new role overseeing policy matters, strategic international engagement, and government relationships worldwide.
Details
- Cuéllar most recently served as President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and previously sat as a Justice of the California Supreme Court
- His background spans law, technology, and international security, including roles as director of Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, co-director of Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, and director of the Stanford Cyber Initiative
- He has served on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board and the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board, co-chaired the bipartisan Task Force on Nuclear Proliferation and American Security, and co-led California’s Frontier AI Working Group
- He remains the Cameron Schrier Family Professor at Stanford Law School and a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
- Cuéllar said: “Democracies must set the terms on which this technology advances, and there is no more consequential place to be shaping that work right now than Anthropic”
- Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei said: “Tino has spent his career helping public institutions respond to times of change with thoughtfulness, pragmatism, and deep commitment to the common good”
What happened next
- This is a leadership appointment rather than a product announcement; no changes to Claude products are involved