Conor McGlynn
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Updated 03/22/26Conor McGlynn is a doctoral candidate in Public Policy (Science, Technology and Policy Studies) at Harvard Kennedy School and a fellow at the Harvard STS Program. He holds a B.A. in Economics and Philosophy from Trinity College Dublin and an M.Phil. in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge, where he focused on ethics and public policy. Before his PhD, he worked in EU affairs in Brussels as a Robert Schuman Trainee at the European Parliament and subsequently as a government relations consultant specializing in emerging technology and biotech regulation. He was a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing (2019-2020), where he researched the governance of lethal autonomous weapon systems, and a Fulbright Irish Schuman Awardee at the Kissinger Institute on US-China Relations in Washington D.C. (2020-2021), focusing on global governance of emerging technologies. He was an IAPS 2025 AI Policy Fellow with a project on international technology competition, and co-authored the paper "Promising Topics for U.S.-China Dialogues on AI Risks and Governance" presented at the ACM FAccT conference in 2025. He received a grant from the Long-Term Future Fund to upskill for AI governance work before beginning his Science and Technology Policy PhD.
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