Executive in Residence - Pratt School of Engineering
Lee Tiedrich is a widely recognized leader in artificial intelligence, data, and emerging technologies. A Duke professor, she serves as a Senior AI Advisor for the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and was an OECD/GPAI consultant. She co-authored the GPAI/OECD’s 2025 policy paper titled, “Intellectual Property Issues in Artificial Intelligence Trained on Scraped Data,” which was approved by more than 40 countries. Ms. Tiedrich serves as a Senior Adviser and contributor to the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI, led by Yoshua Bengio. She’s also a member of both the OECD and GPAI expert groups and co-chairs both the GPAI Responsible AI Strategy for the Environment (RAISE) committee and the GPAI Intellectual Property Advisory Committee. The EU AI Office appointed her to its working group on AI Codes of Practice. She presents her work at prominent forums across the globe.
With degrees in electrical engineering and law, Ms. Tiedrich has over 30 years of private sector experience. She was a partner at a major global law firm, where she led the firm’s global and multi-disciplinary AI Initiative and counseled organizations on a broad range of intellectual property, corporate, regulatory, and global affairs matters.
Area of Expertise: Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning, Climate Finance / Sustainability Technology, Cybersecurity, Law and Policy
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Prof. Tiedrich is a Senior Adviser and contributor to the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI led by leading AI scholar, Yoshua Bengio, and funded by the UK government.
Prof. Tiedrich focuses on solving the AI data challenge briding diverse disciplines and jurisdictions. As an OECD/GPAI consultant, she co-autored the OECD/GPAI report on Intellectual Property Issues in Artificial Intelligence Trained on Scraped Data, which was approved by all 44 OECD/GPAI countries. Her work on this topic also includes a joint study with Open Data Institute which as been featured by GPAI/OECD.
Prof. Tiedrich is also a widely recognized leader in AI governance, In addition to her many policy roles and publications, she is the author of a chapter in the forthcoming book, "The Artificial Intelligence Revolution," to be published by Nature Springer.